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HISTORY OF BRITISH FERNS. 
Sherard’s plant, from the Mourne Mountains, is Athyrium 
Filix-foemina blanched, not a variety of Asplenium Adian- 
tum-nigrum , as supposed by some, or Asplenium acutum , as 
stated by others. 
Connaught.— Connemara ; Gort (on limestone), Galway, J. R. 
Kinahan. 
Leinster.— Wicklow (var. multifidum ), D . Moore. Louth. Dub¬ 
lin (on granite). King’s. Kilkenny, J. R. Kinahan. 
Munster. —Cork. Kerry ; also Mucruss, Killamey (vars. mul¬ 
tifidum and rhceticum). Clare (var. multifidum) ,J. R.Kinahan. 
Carthy’s Cove, Waterford. Keeper Hill, Tipperary. Lime¬ 
rick, J. R. Kinahan. 
The species is very common in Ireland. 
Channel Isles. —Jersey (var. multifidum and others). Guern¬ 
sey (var. rhceticum and other forms), C. JacJcson. 
Bleclmnm Spicant, Both. 
Peninsula. —Cornwall. Devonshire. Somersetshire. 
Channel. —Hampshire. Isle of Wight. Dorsetshire. Wilt¬ 
shire. Sussex. 
Thames. —Hertfordshire. Kent, Tunbridge (var. heterophyllum , 
and other forms), G. B. Wollaston. Surrey. Middlesex. 
Berkshire. Oxfordshire. Essex. . 
Ouse. — Suffolk. Norfolk. Cambridgeshire. Bedfordshire. 
N orthamptonshire. 
Severn. —Warwickshire. Gloucestershire ; Nailsworth (fronds 
