233 -BRITISH FERNS, 
between Lynn and Hunstanton, and at Edgefield, all 
in Norfolk. It occurs only on boggy heaths. 
< This fern, whether exposed or in a green-house, 
requires a soil almost entirely composed of turfy peat, 
~ abundance of water, and only just so much charcoal at 
the bottom of the pot as will keep the water, in which 
it should constantly stand, from putrifying. It is by 
no means an ornamental fern, erect, fragile, constantly 
broken by the wind, and very liable to premature 
_ decay at the tip of the frond: it is only desirable 
as affording the means of comparison with allied 
26. WINDERMERE FERN. Remorvm. 
‘Aspidium remotum, 4. Braun. 
- The caudex of Remotum is tufted, and the crown 
sealy; the whole frond is about three feet in length, 
of which the stalk is about a fourth part, or nine 
inches, and the leafy part of the frond twenty-three 
inches; the stalk is erect, stout and clothed with 
_Semitransparent pale brown scales, infinitely varied in 
form and size ; the larger ones are rather broad at the 
_ base, and gradually taper to the tip, where they ter- 
‘minate in a twisted hairlike point; others are hair- 
.. se throughout, and these last are found not only on . 
