rOLYPODIUM FHEGOPTERIS. 
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fall; at Waterfall above Lough Eske, in Donegal; and in 
other parts of northern counties.—( Francis’ Analysis of 
British Ferns.) 
This Fern was not known as a British plant when 
Ray published, in 1670, his Catalogue Plantarum 
Anglia; but it is included by Morrison and Bobart in 
their Historia Plantarum Oxoniensis, published in 1680, 
and Bobart states that it had been found in the northern 
parts of England by Mr. T. Lawson and Mr. D. Lhwyd 
(Lloyd). In those parts it had also been observed by 
Dr. James Sherard. Dillenius mentions it, in 1724, in 
the third edition of Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium 
Britamiearum, as “Filix minor Britannica pediculo 
pallidiore, alis inferioribus deorsum spectantibus.” (The 
smaller British Fern, with paler stem, and lower wings 
looking downwards.) 
The Polypodium phegopteris is a free-growing and very 
pretty species. Under favourable circumstances it will 
not fail to repay the cultivator. It is remarkably well 
adapted for cultivating upon the shaded and most moist 
parts of a Fernery or rockery. Such a situation must 
bo secured for it, it being particularly partial to an 
abundant and constant supply of water about its roots, 
and also as often as possible overhead, during the 
growing season. A situation on tho Fernery, where it 
might be partially overshadowed by some projecting 
portion of the rockwork, would be suitable; but, although 
it delights in a situation like this, yet it must be well 
drained, so that the mould about its roots does not 
become soddened and water-logged, for stagnant water 
