152 BRITISH FERNS. 
is one of the very rarest of our British Ferns: six — 
localities only are recorded, two English, one Welch 
and three Scotch. In Ireland it is unknown. The 
Scotch localities are as under:—Ist. About three miles 
from Dunfermline, in Fifeshire. 2nd. On Stenton 
Rocks, near Dunkeld, in Perthshire. This locality 
has previously been recorded, but the plant was sup- 
posed to have been extirpated for many years, when 
I received the following note from Mr. G. Smyttan, 
of C. C. College, Cambridge :—* After reading your _ 
remarks on Asplenium germanicum, I have thought 
it might be interesting to you to know that I have 
@ specimen of this very rare plant, gathered on 
Stenton Rocks so lately as last summer. After two 
hours’ climbing on the bare rocks, on one of the most 
burning days, I at last found the treasure in a fissure 
of the barest part of the rock.” $rd. On some sunny 
rocks about two miles from Kelso, on the Tweed, in 
Roxburghshire. In England the localities are— 
Ist. On Kyloe Crags, in Northumberland. Mr. Tate, 
the discoverer, writes, “ These crags are chiefly com- 
posed of rudely columnar basalt, resembling the trap 
range of Salisbury Crags. Sandstone crops out from 
beneath this, and at the western end forms a steep 
cliff. After botanizing for a short time, I had the 
good fortune to find Asplenium germanicum growing 
sparingly upon the basalt. It is not a fern easily 
passed by: its pale green fronds at once attracted my 
