THE SMALL-LEAVED GYMNOGRAM. 111 
Great Britain, is highly gratifying. This morning I examined the 
place where it was gathered last year, and find that it is coming 
up plentifully again. It is growing in a clay soil, on a bank at 
the foot of a hill, and is much overshadowed with ivy and larger 
Ferns; the Asplenium lanceolatum, too, grows plentifully all around 
it, and the bank in that part is covered with a small round lichen 
[perhaps Marchantia]. The situation is very damp and much shel- 
tered, and the Fern is scattered over a surface of two or three yards ; 
but I can find no trace of it on any other part of the bank, and I 
have never met with it in any other part of the island. The place 
where it grows is unfrequented, and I do not think it is possible it 
should be anything but wild.” Subsequently * Mr. Newman also 
recorded its discovery, and mentions one spot near St. Laurence 
where it grows plentifully for a considerable distance along a hedge 
bank, extending as far as the bank is exposed, but ceasing exactly 
where the lane is shaded by trees. There can thus be no doubt 
the species is indigenous in the Channel Islands. Mr. Ward, who 
visited its localities in 1853, informs us that he found it growing 
on the exposed banks of lanes with a south-western aspect, pro- 
tected from the sun by the surrounding vegetation which clothes the 
banks, and fed by the constant oozing of water, which renders the 
soil sufficiently moist for the growth of Liverwort and Mosses. 
According to another report,t it was found in 1852, by Miss Veitch, 
“in a stone dyke on the high road leading from Braemar to 
Ballater, nearly opposite Invercauld House,” in Aberdeenshire, but 
as no further evidence of its existence there has been forthcoming, 
and the habitat seems too far north for a tender Fern, this report 
probably originated in accidental error, and perhaps from the chance 
intermixture of Scottish and Madeira dried plants. 
This delicate species is remarkable on account of its wide dis- 
persion over the world. In Europe it ranges from Jersey, France, 
and Switzerland, its northern limits, into Germany, extending to 
Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar, on the one hand, and Italy: Naples, 
Sicily, and Sardinia; Corsica, Dalmatia, Greece, and Crete, on the 
other. In Asia it is found in India: at Mussoorie and in the 
* Phytologist, iv. 914, March, 1853 ; and 973, June, 1853. + Id. iv. 600. 

