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found; L. recurva occurs in a few places.
Athyrium felix-femina var rhoticum is not uncommon.
Asplenium viride is found on some of the mountain screes,
and is very abundant on Whitbarrow; A. Trichomanes,
Adiantumnigrum and ruta-muria are common, and A. marinum is
found on Meathop, near Witherslack.
Scolopendrium vulgare grows very fine in some sheltered
situations.
Blechnum boreale is common everywhere.
Hymenophyllum Wilsoni is found in many dark fissures in the
rocks in high wooded fells, generally near a stream.
Osmunda regalis is common and fine.
Botrychium lunaria is pretty frequent on high mountain
heaths.
Ophioglosum vulgatum is very scarce.
In giving an account of the ferns of Windermere, the
important discovery of Woodsia Ilvensis in Westmorland,
although not in the immediate neighbourhood of Windermere,
ought to be mentioned. This rare fern was found by Mr.
Huddart, the nurseryman of Waterloo Gardens immediately
opposite Bowness, who has some roots of it and of almost all
the British ferns in his possession.
All the British club mosses are found near Windermere.
Lycopodium clavatum grows on most of the higher fells; L.
annotium has been found in Langdale: L. inundatum is not
unfrequent on the margins of mountain tans; L. alpinum grows
on many heathy fell-
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