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LASTR.EA OREOPTERIS. 
In England it lias been gathered at Old Foot's Well. 
Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire; near Chapel Weardale 
and Darlington, Durham; at Cawsey Dean, near New¬ 
castle; at Keswick and near Lodore Waterfall, in Cum¬ 
berland ; by the Tees; near Richmond, and in woods at 
Castle Howard, in Yorkshire; on Coleshill Heath and 
Corley, in Warwickshire; near Warrington ; on Dethick 
Moor and near Riley, in Derbyshire ; in the Isle 
of Man; on Dallington Heath, near Northamp¬ 
ton; on the north side of Shotover Hill, in Oxford¬ 
shire ; on Oxton and Eddingley Bogs, in Nottingham¬ 
shire, and at Hartswell, near Farnsfield; at Conham 
and Leigh Woods, near Bristol, in Somersetshire; 
at Bradwell, in Suffolk; in Sussex; on Bailey’s Hill, 
between Brasted and Tunbridge, in Kent; and near 
Southampton. 
In Scotland, at Glen Isla, in Forfarshire; in Suther- 
laudshire; on the banks of Loch Tay; in Aberdeen¬ 
shire ; and at the foot of Craig Chaillcach. 
In Wales, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire; at Llan- 
berris and Nant Gwynedd, in Caernarvonshire. 
In Ireland, in Powerscourt Deer Park, and Waterfall, 
Mangerton Mountain; Lough Corril, in Galway; and 
elsewhere. 
This very beautiful and easily distinguished Fern is 
first mentioned by Ray as a native of this country. He 
notices it in the Appendix to the seoond edition of his 
Synopsis Metkodica Stirpium Britannicarum as “ a variety 
of the common Male Fern observed by Petiver on Duns- 
more Heath, near Rugby, in the county of Warwick;” 
