THE FERN PARADISE. 
Wandering through the cool lanes of Devon- 
shire you may* too, meet with the fragTant Hay- 
scented Buckler Fern ( Lastrea renurvo '), which 
emits so beautiful an odour when pressed in the 
hand ; with the delicately and transparently- 
leaved Marsh Buckler Fern (. Lastrea thelypteris) ; 
with the Mountain Buckler Fern ( Lastrea mon- 
tana) , whose silvery fronds make the air fragrant 
when you tread upon them in their incipient un- 
rolled state. But these varieties are not to be 
commonly encountered in every Devonshire lane. 
And still rarer — though found in Devonshire — are 
the Lanceolate Spleenwort ( Asplenium lanceola- 
tum), the tiny Forked Spleenwort ( Asplenium 
septentrionale ), the Tunbridge Filmy Fern (Hy- 
menophyllum tunbridgense) , and Wilson’s Filmy 
Fern ( Hymenophyllum unilateral) . TheMoonwort 
( Botrychium lunaria ), and the Common Adders- 
tongue ( Ophioglossum vulgatum), are also Ferns of 
Devonshire growth. We do but enumerate these, 
and pass on to speak of some of the Ferns which 
may be seen in almost every Devonshire lane, and 
which, although common in the sense of being 
plentiful, are nevertheless amongst the most beau- 
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