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surface of the leaflets are numerous stalkless glands, 
producing the secretion which gives forth the hay-like 
smell to which we have already alluded. The fructifi¬ 
cation is regularly scattered over the under surface of 
each leaflet, each mass being covered with a roundish 
kidney-shaped membrane ( indusium ), having a jagged 
edge, and sometimes having on the edge a few of the 
glands just noticed. 
This Fern is not generally found in the British 
Islands, but it occurs abundantly on the western side ol 
England, as in Cornwall and Devon, and less plentifully 
in Somersetshire, Sussex, and Cumberland; at Ripon, 
Settle, and Scarborough, in Yorkshire, and in North 
Lancashire. In Wales, in Anglesea, Glamorganshire, 
and Merionethshire. In Scotland it is found in the 
East and West Highlands, and in the Northern and 
Western Islands. 
It occurs sometimes in dryish situations, but is usually 
fouud in moist, sheltered, woody places, and on the 
banks beneath hedges. 
Wo think that this Fern was first discovered and 
particularised by Dr. Johnson, the editor of the second 
edition of “ Gerarde's Herbal,” and that in that work 
(page 1130) he describes it as “the Malo Fern not 
branched ; with narrow, separated, deoply - toothed 
leafits " [Filins mas non ramosa pinnulis angustis, raris, 
profunde dentatis). Bo this as it may, his namesake, 
Mr. Charles Johnson, says, “ In 1821, I first noticed it 
in the vicinity of Dolgelly, and agaiu in the Vale of 
Fcsliniog (in Merionethshire and Glamorganshire), and 
