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abundant and indigenous on Whitbarrow.
Polypodium vulgare grows very luxuriantly, and in some
shaded situations with a south aspect, assumes a form
resembling P. cambricum, but does not retain its peculiar
character under cultivation; the variety serratum, also
grows in similar situations: it is very handsome.
Polypodium phegopteris is more than usually common in this
district, and may be found in many woods and often by the
road sides; P. dryopteris is not quite so frequent, but by
no means uncommon in similar situations: it is very abundant
in the woods of Furness Fells.
Polypodium calcareum is common on Whitbarrow.
Allosorus crispus is not rare in stone walls or rocks, and
among loose stones, generally in high situations.
Cystopteris fragilis is very fine in some situations, but is
not abundant here; a form is found which somewhat resembles
C. regia.
Polystichum lonchitis has been found; P. aculeatum is common
by rivulets, through mountain woods and coppices, and its
varieties lobatum and lonchitoides; P. angulare is less
common, but may be found in many warm shady ghylls and
groves growing very luxuriantly.
Lastrea oreopteris is very common; the different forms of L.
dilatata abound; the variety called by Mr. Newman L.
collina, is not rare; L. Spinu losa is to be found in many
wet woods; also in some open bogs, and a few roots of a form
of this species closely resembling, if not identical with L.
crista, have been
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