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or less abundantly, and a few roots axe been found't in 
Madeira, but I believe in no other part of the world. 
In many of its characters it is so like the last that it is 
constantly taken for it, a circumstance that has led to 
many errors on the subject of localities. In Britain it 
is an inhabitant of mountain districts: it is more rarely 
found on low ground, and very seldom in highly culti- 
vated counties. It is particularly abundant in the 
nm of Scotland, being in many of the mountain 
n than the Common Brakes: ‘it also 
abounds in the hill districts of the North of England 
_ and Wales: it is not, however, confined to hills, since 
__ we find it sparingly in all our counties where there is 
‘waste ground; it approaches London on all sides, 
occurring on Wimbledon Common, Hampstead Heath, 
High Beech and Blackheath. Notwithstanding its 
apparent partiality for exposed and elevated districts, it 
— more beautifully and luxuriantly in the woods, 
‘profusion, At Houndsdown Bottom, near Hindhead, 
in Surrey, it is particularly abundant and luxuriant; 
and the same is the case in Eridge Woods, near Tun- 
bridge ‘Wells. ae Treland ms is aap en 
I was, hoy evi 
in two localities, Milroy Bay, in the County Donegal, 
and at Teese in the County Wicklow: it also 
