

THE BRITISH FERNS. 
W. Highlands.—W. Inverness-shire: Freuch Corrie, Strath 
Affarie; Glen Roy; Ben Aulder. Dumbartonshire: by Loch 
Lomond. Argyleshire: Glen Gilp, Ardrishiag; between Loch 
Awe and Loch Etive; Dunoon. Isle of Arran: Brodick. Isle of 
Mull: Tobermorey, W. Christy. 
N. Highlands.—Ross-shire. Sutherlandshire: Ferry-house E. of 
Loch Erboll. 
Uister.—Antrim:  Knockleyd, very rare. Down: Mourne 
mountains. 
Connaught.—Galway : Ma’am Ture. 
Leinster.—King’s Co.: Tullamore. 
Munster.—Kerry : Mucruss, Killarney. 
The distribution of this Fern in Europe is general. It is found 
at North Cape, the extreme northern point of Europe; in Lapland, 
Sweden, and Russia; in Germany and Hungary; in Dalmatia, 
Transylvania, and Croatia; in Great Britain; in France, Holland, 
and Switzerland; in Italy, Spain and Gibraltar. Siberia and Kamts- 
chatka, in Asia, produce it; and it has been recorded from Africa. 
In the New World it is as widely dispersed as in Europe, occurring 
in Labrador and Greenland on the north-eastern side; at Sitka, and 
about Awatschka Bay, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia 
River, on the north-western side; as well as throughout the United 
States, and in Newfoundland. 
This species is a moisture-loving plant, although, as in most other 
instances, the moisture must not be stagnant. It is also peculiarly 
a shade-loving Fern; for, though very hardy, and capable of existing 
under considerable exposure, yet the delicate fronds are damaged 
and disfigured unless both shade and shelter of some kind is afforded 
. it. It is a good plant for a shady out-door rockery, and also grows 
readily in pots. Its distinctness of character, and the lovely and 
refreshing tint of green which it assumes when luxuriating in shade 
and moisture, no less then its dwarfish size and compact habit, 
render it one of the most useful of rock Ferns. An admixture of 
fibry peat and leaf-mould, in the proportions of two-thirds of the 
former to one-third of the latter, freely mixed with sand, and rubbly 

