W. Lowlands.—Dumfries-shire; ravine near Loch Skene, Bev.
W. Little; Devil’s Beef-tub, and hiUs north of Moffat, P. Gray ;
abundant on steep crumbling rocks, on the hiUs dividing Dumfries
and Peebles-shire, TF. Stevens.
E. Highlands.—Perthshfrc ; Ben Chonzie, near Crieff, Br. Balfour
; Ben Lawers, J. Backhouse. Forfarshire: Glen Fiadh, Clova
Mountains, TF. Wilson, J. Backhouse. Morayshire : Forres, Hh.
8. F. Gray.
This fern appears to be more abundant in the north of Furope
than with us. It is found in Iceland, Lapland, Norway, Sweden,
Denmark, and in Eussia from Nova Zembla to the Crimea and the
Caucasus. Southwards, it is recorded as being found in Germany,
Switzerland, France, Hungary, Italy and Spain. In Asia it occurs
in Siberia, in the regions of the Altai Mountains and Lake Baikal,
and extends to Kamtschatka and Awatsohka Bay. It is found in
Arctio America, about the Saskatehawau, and in the Rooky Mountains
of north-west America, in Canada, and in the United States.
The present species differs from Woodsia alpina—(1) in the greater
breadth and development of the frond, which is lanceolate and not
Imear, the pinnæ being elongated and oblong, not short and deltoid ;
and (2) in the crinite vostiture of the stipites and rachides, and of
the lower surface of the ribs and veins of the frond, TF. alpina being
almost destitute of subulate scales, although sparingly furnished with
tubular jointed hairs. Mr. Wollaston points out a further difference,
namely, that at the period of vernation, whilst TF. ilvensis shows no
trace whatever of its fi’uctification, the sori in TF. alpina are remarkably
conspicuous. The two plants indeed, though united by some
botanists, are totaUy and permanently distinot.
This species may be cultivated in the same manner as the foUowing,
under which, some cultural directions wiU be found.
THE ALPINE or DELTOID WOODSIA.
Crypt. Ross. 53.
Lowe, Nat. Hist.
WOODSIA ALPINA.
W. fronds linear pinnate, slightly hairy, not scaly ; pinnæ triangular,
or triangular-ovate, obtuse, pinnatifid or lobed, the lobes
roundish obovate, nearly or quite entire ; stipes and raohis very
slightly hairy. [Plate CVI.]
W oodsia a l i’INA, Ch-ay, Nat. A rr. Brit. PI. ii. 17 (1 8 2 1 ) i n p a r t . Newman,
Nat. A im . (1 8 4 4 ) 13 ; Id ., Hist. B rit. Ferns, 3 ed, 7 9 . Tauseh, Flora, x x i i .
4 8 0 . BeaUn, Florigr. B rit. iv . 4 6 , fig . 1 5 8 4 . Moore, Ilandh. BrU. Ferns,
3 ed. 2 5 1 ; Id ., Ferns o f Qt. Brit. Nature Printed, t . 4 7 B.
WOODSI.A ILVENSIS, 0. a u d y ., Bahington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 e d . 4 2 0 .
W oodsia HvrEEBOiiBA, R. Brown, Tram . lAn. Soc. Lond. x i. 1 7 3 , t . 1 1 . Smith,
Eng. Fl. 2 ed., iv. 3 1 0 . Hooker A Arnott, Brit. Fl. 7 ed. 5 8 3 . Moore,
Handb. B r i t Ferns, 2 ed. 68. Sowerby, Perns o f G t BrU. 1 5 , t . 6.
N yma n , Syllog. Fl- Europ. 4 3 0 . Sprengel, S y s t Veg. 1 2 5 . Desvaux,
Prod. 3 1 8 . U n k , P i t Sp. 1 3 4 . Hooker, Gen. Fil. t . 1 1 9 . Fries, Sam. Veg.
8 2 . Ledebour, Fl. Bossiea, iv. 6 1 1 . Ruprecht, D is t
Fée, Gen. F i t 3 3 8 ; Id ., Jconograph. Nouv. t . 2 6 , fig . 4.
Ferns, v i i . t . 2 7 .
W oodsia pub e sc en s, Opiz ; according to Steudel.
W o o d s i a in t e rm e d ia , Ruprecht, Dist. Crypt. Ross. 5 4 .
A ckostiohdm a l p in um , Bolton, F i t BrU. 7 6 , t . 4 2 . Poiret, Ene. Supp. i. 1 2 9 .
A ceostichum h y b e eb o e eum , Uljeblad, Stockh. Trans. (1 7 9 3 ) 2 0 1 , t . 8.
P olypodium hypekbo ueum, Swartz, Sehrad. Journ. Bot. 1 8 0 0 , ii. 2 7 ; Id . Syn.
F i t 3 9 . Smith, Eng. B o t x x ix . t . 2 0 2 3 . Sehkuhr, K r y p t Gew. 1 8 9 , t . 17 b.
Willdenow, Sp. P la n t v. 1 9 7 . Weber and Mohr, Deutschl. K r y p t 27 , t . 2,
fig. 1, 2 . Presl, Tent. Pterid. 1 8 0 , t . 7 , fig. 6. Fl. Dan. x i i i. t . 2 1 8 6 .
Sturm, Fl. (Farn i.) t . 1.
P o l y p o d iu m a e v o n ic u m , Smith, Fl. Brit. i ii. 1 1 1 5 .
P olypodium fo n ta n um , Linuoeus, Hh.
P olypodium il v en s e , Withering, A 'n . Brit. PI. i i i . 7 7 4 .
P olypodium h y fe r b o eeum , e t j8. g ra cile, WahUnherg, Fl. Lapp. 2 7 9 .
CETERAcn a l p in um , D& Candolle, Syn. PI. Gall. 1 1 5 ; Id ., Fl. Franç. 3 e d . ii.
66 7 .
Gaudex short, subglobose, forming a small erect or decumbent
crown, furnished with a few scales above. Scales lanceolate, pale
brown. Fibres dark brown, wiry, smooth, branched.
Vernation circinate.
Stipes pale reddish-brown, from three-fourths of an inch to two
inches long, articulated at about one-third of its length from the base.
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