Humber.—Yorkshire: Leokb\' Car ; Ileokfell Wood; Sheffield
Moor ; Bradford, J . T. Newboult; Settle ; Halifax; Thirsk; Ingleborough,
and elsewhere.
Tyne.—Northumberland: Morpeth. Durham ; Sunderland.
X»/.,,,,._yVestmoreland : Eltor Water, Rev. G. Pinder; Langdale
; Silvorthwaito ; Old Man ; and the Rooky Foils throughout
the district. Cumhorland; Rod House. N. Lancashire : Torver,
near Conistone. Isle of Man.
S. Brecknockshire : Brecknock Beacon; Drygarn, J . 11.
Cobb. Radnorshire : Gamrhin, above Rhayader, J. R . Cobb.
Glamorganshire. Cardiganshire. Pembrokeshire: Castle Malgwyn,
W. Hutchison.
JSf, irh fe s .— Anglesea : Cioldc, Rev. W. A . Leighton. Denbighshire
: Ruthin, T. Pritchard; Wood at Glan-r-avon, T. P . ;
Rhuabon, A . L. Taylor. Elmtsliire. Morionethshiro : Festiniog.
Carnarvonshire; Aher, Rev. W. A . Leighton.
W. Lowlands.—Dumfriesshire. Ayrshire : Maybole, TV. Dickson.
Lanarkshire.
J7. Lowlands.—Roxburghshire. Benviokshire. Edinhurghshire :
Hahhie’s How, E. H a ll; Hawthornden, T. M.
E. Stirlingshire. Clackmannanshire. Kinross-shire.
Fifeshire : Lomond Hills. Perthshire : Dunkeld ; Ben Lawers ;
mountains near Crieff; Pass of Trosaohs; Looh K a trin e ; etc.
Forfarshire: Iiigelmady; Dmidee; Den of Fullerton, A . Croall.
Kincardinesliire: Kingcausie, J . T. Syme. Aberdeenshire : Ben-
na-Baird; Glen Callater, Braemar, A . Croall. Banffshire. Morayshire.
E. Inverness-shire.
W. Highlands.—Argjdoshire : Appin, J. T. Syme ; Poltalloch ;
near Loch Ballenooh ; Ardrishiag, T. 31.; Cairndow ; Glen Croe.
Dumbartonshire: Tarhet, T. 31. W. Inverness-shire. Isles of
Arran, Islay and Cantyre. Ailsa Craig.
N. Highlands.— Ross-Aiiro. Sutherlandshire. Caithness, T.Anderson.
N . Isles.—Hoy, and other islands of Orkney, T. Anderson.
W. Isles.—N. Uist. Harris. Lewis.
TJlster.—Down : Newtown, Dr. 3Iateer.
Connaught.—Gahvay : Connemara ; Kylemore, and Glendalough,
B . Barrington.
Leinster.—Wicklow : Newtown, 3Iiss Tarbet; Powersoourt waterfall
; valley of GlencuUon, R. Barrington; near Upper Lough Bray,
B. B. Dublin Mountains, J. R . Kinahan; top of Three Rook
hlountain, 1400 ft., B. Barrmgton; Glen near Kingston, R. B.
Kilkenny. King’s.
Waterford; noar Clonmel, J. Sibbald. Clare. Limerick.
Tipperary.
Channel Isles.—Jersey. Guernsey, C. Jackson.
Lastrea dilatata is a common and generally dispersed European
species, oocurring from Lapland and Norway to Portugal and Spain,
the Savoy Alps, Italy, Croatia and Transylvania. In Asia it
occurs in Kamtschatka, near Petropaulowski, and in Mingrelia; in
Africa, in the Azores and in Bourbon. In America it occurs at
Sitka, and at Kodiak in the Russian territory; at Port Mulgrave,
and in the Rooky Mountains; in New England and Canada. There
is also in the Hookerian Herharium a specimen labelled from New
Zealand.
This is a plant of easy culture. In almost any kind of soil that
can be kept moderately moist, and in any situation where it will
enjoy a moderate amount of shade, it will grow readily ; and it is
really a very handsome plant for rookeries, always moreover easily
obtainable. Few indeed if any of our large growing species are
more elegant, its broad and compound fronds being of a rich deep
green and enduring ; they are in fact subevergreen under shelter.
The hest soil for it and its several varieties, is a mixture of turfy
peat and loam with sand; and they all succeed very well cultivated
in pots.
This Fern is very prolific of varieties. The most remarkable
among them, and those which we consider as being of botanical
importance, have been already briefly mentioned, but we propose in
this place to give more complete descriptions of them, and to notice
their distribution, as well as to enumerate such other forms as seem
to call for mention in accordance with the plan we have followed m
other oases. We may, however, observe that while the modifications