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WOODSIA HYPERBOREA. 
Garnedh and Moel Sichog, on Snowdon, at an elevation 
of not less than 2,600 feet. It is said to have grown on 
Glydr Fawr, Caernarvonshire, but recently it has been 
sought for there without success. 
In Scotland it occurs on Ben Lawers, Ben Chowzie, 
and the Clova Mountains; at Craig Chailleach and 
Mael Ghyrdy, in Perthshire; and in Glen Fiadh, in 
Forfarshire. 
\Ve think it probable that this Fern is the Filix Gale- 
donica mentioned in 1704 by Hay, in the third volume 
of his Historia Plantarum, as being in the museum of 
Mr. Petiver. Whether this be so or not, Ray mentions 
it in the second edition of his Synopsis Stirpium Bri- 
tannicarum, published in 1696, where it is described by 
Mr. Lhwyd, its discoverer, as Filix alpina pedicularis 
rubra foliis subtus villosis (Alpine Fern, with red- 
rattle leaves hairy underneath). It was described and 
engraved during the same year in Plukenet's Altna- 
gestum Botanicum, 160, t. 89,/. 8. Mr. Lhwyd says he 
never saw it except on wet, lofty rocks called Clogwyn-y- 
Garnedh, near the top of Snowdon, and that it is rare 
even there. It springs there from the edges of the rocks, 
not erect, but somewhat reclining. Dr. Richardson 
adds, in the third edition of the same Synopsis, that 
“it grows on a moist, black rock almost at the top of 
Clogwyn-y-Garnedh, facing north west, directly above 
the lower lake.” 
We give the cultivation of Woodsia Ilvensis, and the 
Woodsia hyperborea requires similar treatment. 
