98 BRITISH FERNS, 
occurs in Kerry, Londonderry, and in several places in 
Galway, as between Dooghty and Ma’am, on the ascent 
of Ma'am Ture Pass to the Ma’am Hotel, and near 
Letterpark. 
20. BREE’S FERN. Recurvum. 
Aspidium recurvum, Bree. B. F. 135, 
Lastrea Fenisecii, Watson. 
The caudex is remarkably large, solid and woody, 
its crown broad and circular, and the undeveloped 
fronds seem unusually numerous, and look like a mass 
of nodules crowded together. ‘The fronds on first 
rising from the earth are regularly convolute, and 
when they exhibit the first symptoms of unfolding, the 
two lower pinn® are very conspicuous, and their 
Superior size is still more manifest than at a later 
period. When the leafy part of the frond is entirely 
unfolded, it is of an elongate-triangular form, of a grace- 
fully curved habit, and about equal in length to the 
stalk, which is dark purple in colour, very hard and 
woody in texture, and very long enduring ; it is clothed 
with long, narrow, notched, pointed, brown, concolorous 
_ Seales, which in luxuriant plants are frequently so 
‘numerous and so divided as to give the stalk a woolly 
appearance. The frond is pinnate, and, as in all truly 
deltoid ferns, the lower pinnge are notably larger and 
