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localities may be expected to reward a diligent search. Link states
that it is found near Gilphcad in the west of Scotland, but tbougb
not unlikely, we do not find his statement confirmed. In the
Channel Islands, as at Sark, Guernsey, and Jersey, it again occurs,
and at least in the two last-mentioned in profusion. Its favourite
localities are the crevices of rooks and old waUs, the sides of weUs,
and the shafts of deserted mines. Mr. N. B. Ward has favoured
us with an account of a magnificent tuft which he found, along
with others, almost closing the mouth of a well, in the island of
Jersey; the fronds of this plant were a foot or more in length,
and the plant bore no fewer tban one hundred and twenty perfectly
fresh fronds, besides the remains of sixty or seventy others
in various stages of decay. Mr. Ward found it most abrmdant in
the western side of tbe island, varying much in situation and in
size : on dry fully exposed walls, scarcely more than a couple of
inches long ; while on the densely-shaded dry sandstone banks, and
when lining tbo interior of wells, it grew upwards of a foot in
length. Mr. Watson gives it an altitude of 600 feet iu Wales ;
but Mr. Bennett reports finding it at an elevation of 700 feet,
at Barmouth. Tbe Carnarvon or Denbigh habitat is, no doubt,
equally elevated. Tbe following are some of tbe stations wbiob are
known:—
Peninsula.—Cornwall: St. Michael’s Mount, and other places
about Penzance, abundant, E. T. Bennett ; Logan Book, D Pierson ;
rooks at Hot Point, and other stations near tbe Land’s End ; St.
Ives, Hudson ; Enys Penryn, G. Bawson ; Scilly Islands, W. C.
Trevelyan. Devonshire : MorweU rooks, on tbe Tamar, F. H. Goul-
ding ; banks of the Tavy opposite Virtuous Lady mine ; banks of
tbe Plym near Cann Quarry, I. W. N. Keys; Bickley Vale, Bev.
W. 8. Hore ; Marwood, Rev. F. Mules ; Shaugb, R. J. Gray ; near
tbe Tors, L3Timoutb, R. J. Gray; Buckland Monacborum, Rev.
W. S. Hore ; Tavistock ; Salcombe ; Torquay, Miss Griffiths. Somersetshire
: Selwortby, Mrs. A. Thompson, and elsewhere.
Channel.—Sussex : Higb Pocks, Tunbridge WeUs.
Thames.—Kent: Tunbridge WeUs, E. Jenner. ? Oxfordshire :
Adderbury Cburcb, Bohart.
' .STet'er«.—Gloucestershire: Piver Frome, near Fronobay, T. H.
■ Thomas; Becobly,-B. ic e s ; Oldbury Court Woods, and Pennant
Pocks, near Stapleton, G. H. K. Thwaites. ? Shropshire: Hagmon
Hill, A . Aildn.
Himber.—? Yorkshire: tbe plant from Wbarfe, referred to by
Bolton, is according to bis figure A . Adiantum-nigrum.
8. TTafes.—Pembrokeshire : Pamsay Island, E. Lees. Glamorganshire.
jffales—Merionethshire : about Barmouth; between Barmouth
and DolgoUy, F. Newman. Carnarvonshire; rooks above Tremadoc,
E. T. Bennett; Careg-y-Ymbil in PwUboli Harbour, E. T. Bennett;
Beddgelert; about Aborglaslyn. Denbighshire : near Llanwrst, W.
Wilson.
MunsUr.—Cork-. Kinsale, J. Woods.
Channel Isfes.—Guernsey. Jersey, more abundant on the western
tban tbe eastern side, N. B. Ward. Sark, Miss C. E. Nixon.
Asplenium lameolatum occurs in tbe islands of Madeira and tbe
Azores, and on tbe African coast at Algiers and Tangiers. ^ In
Europe it is found in Spain, Portugal, Western Germany, Belgium,
Switzerland, and in France at Fontainbleau, Bourdeaux, Cevennes,
and in Brittany, whence it crosses over to tbe British shores. It is
consequently an Atlantic species.
Tbis is a very ornamental species, and potted in weU drained
compost, consisting of a mixture of peat, loam, and sand, and^ subjected
to tbe shelter of a shady frame or greenhouse where it is not
kept excessively moist, it is one of the most manageable of tbo
smaller evergreen species, and is always fresh and vigorous. A close
Wardian case is said, however, to be inimical to it. It is not suited
for rook work, or for exposed situations, except near tbe coast, as it
requires a mUd oUmate. Tbe plant is increased in tbe ordinary way,
by careful division.
There are but few varieties of this species at present known, and
this smaU amount of variation may result from tbe limited area
over wbich the species is distributed. There are one or two foreign
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