
106 THE BRITISH FERNS. 
N. Isles.—Orkney. 
W. Isles.—Tarbet, Harris. 
Ulster.—Antrim. Down: Rostrevor. 
Connaught.—Arran Isles. Galway:  Connemara; Moyeullen 
(large form), R. Barrington. Leitrim: Glencar, R. B. 
Leinster.—Louth. Dublin. King's. Wicklow. Kilkenny. 
Munster.—Cork. Kerry: Killarney (large), W. Andrews. Water- 
ford. "Tipperary. Limerick. Clare: Black Head, R. Barrington. 
Channel Isles.—Jersey. 
This Fern extends throughout Europe, from Scandinavia and 
Russia, through Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Transyl- 
vania, and Turkey, eastwards to Greece and the Crimea, and through 
Belgium, France, and Switzerland to Italy, and thence westwards to 
the Spanish peninsula. In Africa it is found' at Algiers; in the 
Cape de Verd Islands, in Madeira, and in the neighbouring Atlantic 
isles ; and again at the Cape of Good Hope and in Kaffraria. In 
Asia 16 is found in the region of the Caucasus, in Tauria, in Persia, 
and in various parts of India, e. g., Afghanistan, Kashmir, Bhotan, 
Simla; occurring also in Siberia—in the Ural and Altai ranges, and 
in the region of Lake Baikal; as well as in the Sandwich Isles. Some 
of the Simla and Persian specimens resemble Asplenium anceps; 
and the Altai yields a marked variety (8. altaica), having the lower 
pinne nearly triangular, the upper narrow oblong, and the inter- 
mediate ones hastate ; specimens of this form occur in the Hookerian 
Herbarium. The species is again met with in Australasia: in Tas- 
mania, in New South Wales at Sydney, by the River Buchan, and on 
Mount Aberdeen in Victoria. In North America it occurs in various 
parts of the United States, from Vermont to New Mexico, and in 
British America, from Montreal to Nootka Sound ; in South America 
in Columbia and Peru; and in the West Indies in Jamaica and 
Cuba. The Asplenium anceps, which occurs in the Canaries, Madeira, 
and the adjacent islands, is peculiar in its narrower and more elon- 
gated auriculate pinne, and its trigonous stipites, and this has not, we 
believe, been found in Britain. 
The Common Maidenhair Spleenwort once had a medicinal repu- 
tation, which 16 appears to have now lost. According to Ray it was 

