Idwal, Clogwyn-y-Garnedd, Penmaen Mawr; cave at Clogwyn Cooli
and elsewhere, in the Snowdon district.
TP. Loidands.—Dumfries-shire : near Ilobb’s Linn, Moffat Dale,
P. Gray. ? Kirkoudbrightshiro. Lanarkshire; Calderwood, T. B. Bell.
E. Loidands.—Berwickshire : Coldstream ; near Mains, Bev. A.
Baird. Edinburghshire : Pentland Ilills, E. Young, and elsewhere.
Linlithgowshire: Woodcock Dale Wood, Br. Balfour.
E. Highlands.—Stirlingshire : Stirling, Mrs Madeod; Campsie
Glen, W. Gourlie; Banks of Loch Lomond. Clackmannanshire:
Castle Campbell, near Dollar. Fifeshire: near Wemyss Castle.
Perthshire: Don of Balthayoch, W. Gardiner; Glen Queich in the
Ochils ; Pass of Killieorankie ; Killin, W. Wilson; Ben Lawers.
Forfarshire: Glen Clova; Glen Isla. Kincardineshire coast.
Aberdeenshire: Bracmar, and elsewhere. Nairnshire: Cawdor
Castle. E. Inverness-shire : Kingussie, and elsewhere. Morayshire :
Her. G. Gordon.
W. Highlands.—Inverness-shire: Ben Nevis. Argyleshire: Glen
Croe, T. M .; Oban ; Dalmally, near Loch Awe, Miss Brownlow;
Dunoon. Dumbartonshire.
N. Highlands.—Ross-shire : Coul, J. Fraser. Sutherlandshire,
Br. Murray. Caithness : Morven, T. Anderson.
N. Lsles.—Orkney.
W. Lsles.—Langa, Harris, Br. Balfour.
Ulster.—Antrim: near Belfast; Woodhurn Glen ; Carriclrfergus.
Down: Black Mountain, above Tollymore Park, Mr. Thompson.
Connaught.—Leitrim : Manor Hamilton, It. Barrington; Glen
Car, JR. B. Galway: Gort, A B. Hinahan; Connemara. Sligo:
near the town of Sligo, in profusion, E. Newman.
Leinster.—^Wicklow (Newman). “ Though recorded from Wicklow
and Dublin, careful research in this latter locality and in many parts
of Wicklow has been unrewarded. I have never found it except in
the west and north-west where it is tolerably abundant.” J. B.
Kinahan.
Munster.—Kerry: Brandon Hill (3160 ft.), Mr. Woodward; cliffs
above the Punchbowl, Mangerton. (2500 ft.). Clare : Burren, J. R.
Kinahan; Black Head, R. Barrington; Ballyvaughan, Br. Allchin.
Cork, Newman.
In some or other of its many forms, this fern is dispersed widely
over the world. It occurs throughout Europe, from Iceland and
Lapland through Norway, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, HoUand,
Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy,
Dalmatia, Croatia, Hungary, and Transylvania, to Greece, Turkey,
the Crimea, and the Russo-Cauoasiau provinces. In Asia, it is
found in the regions of the Ural, the Altai, and Lake Baikal in
Siberia, extending to the frontiers of Chinese Turkestan, Kamt-
sohatka and Unalasohka ; also in Asia Minor, Erzeroum, Koordistan,
and northern Persia ; in Affghanistan, Kashmir, Kunawar, Simla,
Nepal, Thibet, and the Himalayas. In Africa, we have records of
its ooourronce in Abyssinia, and at the Cape of Good Hope, as woU
as in North Africa; and it is found in the islands of Madeira,
Teneriffe, the Canaries, and the Azores. Over these north-African
islands extending to Malaga, is also dispersed a plant (sempervirens)
which in its evergreen habit, tough stipites, and hairy indusia, has
strong claims to spécifié rank. In America the species extends from
Greenland, Labrador, Kotzebue’s Sound, and the countries bordering
the Polar Sea, through north-west America, to Canada, the
United States, California, Mexico, Guatemala, and Columbia : in
the latter warmer countries beooming the var. nigrescens of Hooker.
At Xalapa, as weU as in Guatemala, and Quito, and on the Andes
of Peru, also occurs a peouUar slender narrow form of the dentata
series. The plant is again found iu the West Indies: Jamaica,
Cuba, and the Bahamas ; and in America, in New Grenada ;
in Chili, at Mendoza, and at Port Famine. C. fragilis has also
been recorded from Tasmania. Many of the reputed habitats
of the central parts of North America belong to C. tenuis, a species
which, though perhaps not distinguishable hy its fronds alone
from some forms of C. fragilis, is totaUy different in habit, having
a widely-creeping rhizome.
This is a pretty Uttle Fern for the cultivator, affording in its
different forms some variety in his coUeotion, and thriving well
either in cool frames or greenhouses planted iu pots, or on the open
rock-work in shady and somewhat moist localities which enjoy a
moderately pure atmosphere. The soU may be composed of light
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