BRITISH FERNS. 
the Oak Fern, the Mountain Fern, the Hart's — 
Tongue, the Polypody, the Brittle Fern, and the 
Maidenbair are almost invariably present; and there 
occasionally the less abundant Green Spleenwort, 
and the somewhat capricious Hard Fern, besides the 
Prick kly Fern in all its perplexing diversities of 
oF On the rocks, too, and intermixed with the 
my oh: in search of ferns were 
extended to Scotland and Ireland, more particularly the 
pen and there I ee the beautiful Bristle Fern in 
eon like diamonds in a ray of | 
hat had contrived to find its. way through 
