THE SEA SPLEENWORT. 93 
profuse in the south-west of- England and in Wales; thence spread- 
ing, but diminishing in frequency, eastwards as far as Sussex, and 
northwards to Orkney, from which latter point it passes, occurring 
here and there, along the eastern side of Scotland to Yorkshire. It 
is found also in the Hebrides, and is abundant on the Irish coasts, 
and in the Channel Islands. We have received specimens of the 
variety we have called parallelum, from Guernsey, gathered by M. 
Boistel, measuring thirty-four inches in length, of which twenty-four 
inches were occupied by about thirty pairs of pinnæ, the largest of 
these being about two inches and a half long, and three-eighths of 
an inch wide: larger specimens were produced on the same plant, 
which was growing without soil on a damp rock! Though a mari- 
time plant, it is found in a few cases inland, as at Newton, and in 
the neighbourhood of Warrington, in Lancashire; and again on the 
side of Cromaglaun Mountain, Killarney. It probably does not 
attain any considerable altitude above the coast level. ‘The records 
of its distribution are these :— 
Peninsula.—Cornwall : Whitsand Bay, F. H. Goulding; St. Ives, 
Miss Warren; Lamorran; and the Cornish coast generally. Devon- 
shire: Plymouth; Dawlish, Miss Griffiths; Ilfracombe, R. Withers ; 
Saleombe; Torquay; Stoke Gabriel; Babbicombe; Teignmouth ; 
Linton, N. B. Ward; Lynmouth, Rev. T. Rooper; Valley of Rocks, 
and Lee Abbey, T. Clark ; Georgeham, Rev. F. Mules ; Marwood, 
Rev. F. Mules; and other parts. Somersetshire: Clevedon; Por- 
tishead ; Selworthy, Mrs. A. Thompson; Weston-super-Mare, T 
Clark. : 
Channel.—Isle of Portland. Dorsetshire: Purbeck, Pulteney ; 
Lyme Regis. Isle of Wight, beyond Knowle, towards Blackgang, 
Miss Kirkpatrick. Sussex: Castle Rock, Hastings, Ray. 
Severn.= Gloucestershire, 77. Brit. 
Mersey.—Cheshire: Red Noses Rocks, New Brighton, E. Newman; 
Black Rocks at the mouth of the Mersey, H. C. Watson; Hilbre 
Island, mouth of the Dee, Dr. Wood. Lancashire: Winwick or 
Hulme stone-quarry, near Warrington, Bolton (inland); red sand- 
stone rock, Newton (inland); Knot's Hole, Dingle, S. Thompson ; 
Black Rock, near Liverpool; rocks near Heysham. 

