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flat, kidney-shaped, slightly waved on the edge, but 
never fringed with glands. In exposed situations the 
masses sometimes run together. The fructification is 
generally, but not always, upon the upper leaflets of the 
fronds only. 
It is found in marshy places, moist wooded ground, 
and wet hedgerows. 
In England it has been found in the Isle of Man; 
near Ingleborough, Pottery Car at Doncaster, and 
Richmond, in Yorkshire; Woolston Moss, in Lancashire; 
Newchurch Bog, in Cheshire; Titterstone Clee Hills, 
and Bomere Pool, in Shropshire; in Warwickshire; in 
Derbyshire; Dallington Heath, near Northampton; in 
Norfolk; near the Windmill and the Spring-well on 
Wimbledon Common; in Sussex; at Tunbridge, in 
Kent; near Torquay, and in a wood near Duusford 
Bridge, in Devonshire. 
In Scotland at Brahan Castle, near Dingwall. We 
are not sure about other localities where it has been 
said to be found. 
Mr. Reeve observes to us, that although the Laslraa 
spinulosa may, at first sight, be mistaken for L. dilatata, 
yet, when each of them is cultivated in one collection, 
there will be found a marked difference. Neither of the 
species should be absent from a collection, for although 
a similarity exists, both the distinctness and beauty of 
each will be very apparent when growing near to each 
other. 
This is a very fine and erect-growing species, and 
remarkably well adapted for the moist parts of the 
