county at Tunbridge Wells. In Ireland this fern is 
not generally distributed, being confined to those 
In Kerry, in the vicinity of Killarney, it attains a 
degree of luxuriance and profusion that I have never 
observed elsewhere: it is often mixed with the Bristle 
_ Fern, and not only, covers the rocks, but even clings 
to the bark of trees, ascending the branches to a great 
height, and presenting a very beautiful appearance 
Tn Wicklow, it occurs at Powerscourt Waterfall, Glen- 
cree, and several other places. 
This and the following species are very easy ferns 
to cultivate: they may be used as an undergrowth or 
ground-covering for the Bristle Fern, but succeed — 
equally well alone. The following plan will be found 
: imam :—First, fill an ordinary tlower-pot with wet 
um, and invert it; then having prepared a 
vith water, and mixed to a similitude of mortar, and 
aving plastered this all over the inverted pot, arrange 
he matted mass of caudices of the Filmy Fern over 
surface of the mortar, taking — 
