.FERNY COMBES. 
tions. Allosorus crispus, the Parsley Pern, so called 
from its resemblance to parsley, is found only on 
lofty bills, and people are apt to confine tbeir search 
for it to the north of England and Wales, because 
those are the habitats generally given. Botanists 
however have not yet looked everywhere; there are 
still many untrodden corners, and, we feel certain, 
many an unthought-of treasure yet to be discovered. 
This fern was found a few years ago on Exmoor, 
not far from Challacombe. We have hunted for it 
three or four times, but without success. In our 
Search for the Parsley Pern we stumbled on Poly- 
podium Dliegopteris , the Beech Pern, for which that 
locality was never before given. Now P. Dhegopte- 
ris has often in its company the delicate Oak Pern, 
P. Dry opt er is, so we searched further, and to our 
great delight found abundance of Phegopteris and 
the pretty Dryopterh (which until that day was 
supposed to be absent from Devon and the adjoin¬ 
ing counties) intermixed with it. 
In the same glen we lighted on a few fine plants 
of Dolystichim lobatum , and two of the Lycopo¬ 
diums (provincially known by the name of “ Grood 
luck”), clavatvm and Selago. Moreover we had 
the pleasure of seeing two ring-ousels, or mourn- 
tain blackbirds, in their native haunts, and their 
strange call, as they whirled around us, or seated 
