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124 . BRITISH FERNS. 
communications on the subject of localities will be read 
with interest. The first is from Mr. Watson :—“In 
July, 1841, I gathered two fronds of this fern in the 
great corrie of Ben Aulder, a lofty mountain on the 
west side of Loch Erricht, Inverness-shire, which is 
part of the boundary line between the East and West 
. Highland provinces. Another frond of the same 
Species was picked at some other spot in the neigh- 
bourhood of Loch Erricht, probably on the hills 
between Ben Aulder and the north end of the lake, 
but it might be on the hills of Drumochter Forest, 
eastward of the lake; and if the latter, the station © 
would be within Moray or Eastern Inverness. In 
1844 I brought a frond of it from Canlochen Glen, in 
Forfarshire. These specimens (except the second 
from Ben Aulder, given to Mr. Babington) remained 
in my herbarium doubifully labelled until Mr. New- 
man (to whom the Canlochen frond was at length 
shown, when again recollected) decided it to be Poly- 
podium alpestre. Now that it is known to be a native 
of at least two Highland counties, we may reasonably 
