MOONWORT, 189 
The Moonwort is found throughout Europe and 
Asia, extending even into Kamtchatka; and a very 
similar species, by some botanists considered identical, 
occurs in Newfoundland and Canada. It has a very 
extensive range in Great Britain; but, from the 
generally diminutive size, it may be supposed that it 
frequently escapes that notice which ferns of more 
conspicuous appearance can by no possibility elude, 
Its most abundant stations in England are in Surrey, 
Staffordshire and Yorkshire; and Antrim, in Ireland: 
but it is more or less generally distributed over the 
whole of the British Islands, including the Isle of 
_ Wight, the Orkney and the Shetland Islands. It 
affects dry, open heaths, elevated pastures and waste 
lands, its strong, succulent roots always creeping 
horizontally amongst the radicles of grasses, An 
unusual station was discovered by that soocnaptialial 
and amiable botanist, the late Dr. Bromfield: “In 
rocky wooded ground under the cliff at East End, by 
Luceombe, a little beyond Rosecliff Cottage, as you go 
‘the pathway to Bonchurch, in the shadiest re- 
, amongst dead leaves; the place is difficult for 
+t would be inexcusable in me to publish the 
@ list of habitats, which, through the great 
of my correspondents, I have received for 
