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W. Lowlands.—Dumfries-shire. Kirkeudbrightshire. Renfrew- 
shire. Lanarkshire. 
E. Lowlands.—Berwickshire. Edinburghshire : Salisbury Crags. 
Linlithgowshire. 
E. Highlands. —Stirlingshire : Stirling, Dr. Lawson. Clack- 
mannanshire. Fifeshire, C. Howie. Perthshire: Dunkeld (various 
forms), A. Tait. Forfarshire. Kincardineshire. Aberdeenshire. 
Banffshire. Morayshire. Nairnshire. 
W. Highlands.—Argyleshire. Dumbartonshire. Ailsa Craig. 
Isles of Iona, Islay, and Cantyre. 
N. Highlands.—Cromarty. Sutherlandshire. Caithness. Ross- 
shire: Loch Alsh, Miss Mahy. 
N. Isles—Orkney. 
W. Isles.—N. Vist. Harris. Lewis. 
Ulster.—Down, A. Crawford. Donegal, R. Barrington. 
Connaught.—Arran Isles. Galway: Connemara. Leitrim: Glen 
Car, R. Barrington. 
Leinster.—Louth : chimney of old castle of Castletown, Dundalk, 
Miss Johnston. Dublin. King’s County. Wicklow. Kilkenny. 
Munster.—Cork. Waterford. Tipperary. Limerick. Kerry: 
Mucruss (several forms), Dr. Allchin; Killarney, R. Barrington. 
Clare, on limestone boulders, Dr. Allchin. 
Channel Isles.—Jersey. 
This Fern is spread over the whole of Europe, from Finmark in 
Norway, through Scandinavia, Russia, Great Britain, France, Bel- 
gium, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Transylvania, 
Croatia, Dalmatia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sicily, Corsica, Greece, 
Turkey, and the Crimea. It is found in North Africa, at Algiers, 
and also in South Africa. In Asia, it is met with in Kashmir, and 
Thibet, in the Caucasian provinces of Asiatic Russia, as well as on 
the Asiatic side of the Ural Mountains, and in the regions of the 
Altai, and of Lake Baikal in Siberia. It is also found in North 
America, extending from Vermont to North Carolina, Michigan, ete. 
As to its properties, Lightfoot says, “It was formerly received in 
shops as a pectoral and deobstruent, and recommended in coughs, 

