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. Watermouth, near Ilfracombe, Miss A. Griffiths ; Mudstone Bay, 
near Brixham ; Berry Head ; Mewstone Bay, T. B. Flower. Somer- 
setshire: Clevedon, L. H. Grindon ; stone quarry at Combedown, 
near. Bath, Z. J. Lowe ; Cheddar Cliffs, Rev. W. H. Hawker. 
Severn.—? Staffordshire. Shropshire: Titterstone Clee Hill, Mr. 
Westcott. i 
Trent.—? Derbyshire. 
Humber.—? Yorkshire. 
Lakes.—Isle of Man: Glen Meay, T. G. Rylands; between 
Douglas and Peel. 
S. Wales.—Glamorganshire: Dunraven, Miss M. Waring ; East 
Aberthaw, F. Brent; Swansea, J. Riley; Port Kirig; Barry Island. 
E. Highlands.—? Kincardineshire: banks of the Carron; rocks 
near the sea, north-east of Stonehaven, 1842, D. Hutcheson. 
W. Highlands.—? Arran. 
Connaught.—Galway: Lough Bulard, near Urrisbeg, C. C. 
Babington ; Roundstone, Connemara. Arran Isles, G. Maw. 
Munster.—Kerry : Cahir Conree, near Tralee, W. Andrews. 
Clare: from Ballyvaughan, round Black Head to Cremlin Point, 
W. Bennett. 
Channel Isles.—Jersey, rare, Rev. W. Greenwell. Guernsey. 
The Common Maidenhair Fern or Maidenhair Adiant, as Mr. 
Bentham styles it, is found dispersed over the middle and south of 
Europe. Besides Great Britain and Ireland it occurs in Switzer- 
land, in the Tyrol, in Belgium, in France on the Jura range, in 
Spain and Portugal, in Italy, in Dalmatia, in Greece and Turkey. 
In Asia, it occurs throughout India, chiefly in damp hilly districts, 
e.g. Neilgherries, Malabar, Oude, Kashmir, Affghanistan, Scinde, 
Beloochistan, Thibet, Kumaon, Khasya, Sikkim-Himalaya, Nepal, 
Simla, Assam, Bhotan, Ava, Moulmein, &e.; in Java; in China; in 
Persia; in Arabia Petrea, and in Syria; in the Caucasus, and 
according to Ledebour in the Ural provinces of Siberia. In Africa, 
it is found in the north at Algiers, and in Abyssinia and Egypt; 
again in Teneriffe, Madeira, the Canaries, the Azores, and the Cape . 
de Verd Islands; in Madagascar and the Mascaren Islands; and in 
South Africa, in Natal, and at Algoa Bay. It is met with in the 


