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N. Isles. —Orkney. Shetland. 
W. Isle —N. Uist. Harris. Lewis. 
Ulster. Down : Cloughmore Wood, Rostrevor, A. Crawford. 
Antrim: Colin Glen, Belfast, 4. C. Tyrone. Monaghan. Cavan. 
Armagh, J. R. Kinahan. Fermanagh: Deer Park near Brook- 
borough, Rev. W. R. Bailey. Donegal: Gweedore, R. Barrington. 
ConnaugAt.—Galway : Connemara; Kylemore, R. Barrington. 
Arran Isles. Mayo: near Eriffe; foot of. Sleive More near Dugort, 
Isle of Achill, R. Barrington. Sligo: Lough Gill, R. B. 
Leinster.—W estmeath. Meath. Louth. Dublin: Three Rock 
Mountain, R. Barrington. Kildare. King's. Queen's. Wicklow: 
Gt. Sugar Loaf Mountain, J. R. Kinahan ; near Upper Lough Bray, 
R. Barrington; Tinnahinch, R. B. Wexford. Carlow. Kil- 
kenny, J. R. Kinahan. i 
JMunster.— Waterford. "Tipperary. Clare: Quin Abbey, J. R. 
Kinahan ; Lisdoonvarna, R. Barrington. Limerick. Cork. Kerry, 
W. Andrews. 
Channel Isles.—Jersey. Guernsey, C. Jackson. 
This Fern is distributed over Europe, extending from Lapland and 
Sweden in the north, through Lithuania, Holland, Belgium, Germany, 
Switzerland, France, to Spain and Portugal, Italy, Sicily, and Crete. 
It grows in the Caucasian provinces of Asiatic Russia, and is found 
in Kamtschatka and at Sitka. In Africa, it is found in the Azores, 
Madeira, the Canaries, and Teneriffe ; it is reported, on the authority 
of a specimen in Bory de Saint Vincent's herbarium, to occur at the 
Cape of Good Hope, and Mr. Newman states that it has been found 
in Northern Africa. We have also raised this species from fragments 
of fertile fronds received as a Blechnum from Chili, and have little 
doubt of its being the Lomaria australis of Kunze. The L. Sellowiana 
of Presl, from South Brazil, which in our folio edition we had 
mentioned as another closely allied plant, Sir W. J. Hooker refers 
to Lomaria alpina. According to the same authority, a variety of 
Blechnum Spicant is found in Japan, and another in North-west 
America, chiefly in the Russian possessions. 
This is a beautiful plant for the garden, being of easy manage- 

