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LASTRJ5A TIIELYPTERIS. 
centre, but which soon is elevated and shed. The 
masses eventually run together into lines, and some¬ 
times nearly cover the segment. 
It is found in boggy meadows and marshes, especially 
where the soil is gravelly, hut is rare, and though found 
in different parts of the British Islands, is very local. 
It is more common in Scotland than in England or 
Ireland. In England, on Learmoutb Bogs, in Northum¬ 
berland ; near Settle, in Yorkshire; at Allesley, in War¬ 
wickshire ; on Knutsford Moor and New Church Bog, 
near Over, in Cheshire; on Oxton Bogs, in Nottingham¬ 
shire ; in Windsor Park and Sunning Hill Wolls, in 
Berkshire; in the valley below Cmsar’s Camp, on Wim¬ 
bledon Common; and on Leath Hill, in Surrey; in 
a bog on Waterdown Forest, near Tunbridge Wells; at 
Belton, and near Bungay, in Suffolk; at St. Faith’s, 
Newton Bogs, near Norwich; and in Somersetshire and 
Sussex. In Wales, in a moist dell at the foot of Snowdon, 
near Llanberris; on the border of the lake near Red 
Wharf; and at Beaumaris, in Anglesea. In Ireland, 
on the marshes at Glencree, in Wicklow, and at Ne- 
veruss, Killarney. 
This Fern was first noticed as an English plant by 
Ray. He mentions it in his Synopsis Meihodica Stir- 
piurn Britanniearum, as the Filix minor palustris repens, 
Creeping Water Fern, or Lesser Marsh Fern. 
Mr. Reeve informs us that the Lastrcca thelypteris will 
he found to thrive pretty well under pot-culture, and 
with ordinary care will become a very elegant object. 
Being one of those Ferns which choose a marshy place 
