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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...Dorking, Surrey, by Mr. W. Pamplin. Also Mr. T. Clarke, jun., of Bridgewater, has been so kind as to send me from King's Cliff Valley, four miles from that town, several fronds of a very large variety, which is found there in considerable abundance. It is of a very dark colour, has sori along the whole pinnule, and the pinnules themselves are all deeply serrated along their margin. Mr. Clarke also writes me, that Sir W. J. Hooker confirms his, and I may add, my opinion also, that this plant is a variety of Filix-mas, though Sir William observes that Schkuhr, who found it near Dresden, looked upon it as a new species, and figured and described it as A. erosum. The continental A. Filixmas is usually more crenate or serrate than ours. Sit.--Hedge-banks, &c., and in shady lanes throughout the kingdom. Hab.--I have received numerous habitats from most of the English and Scottish counties, from the extreme south to the Orkney Islands, and yet in some places this plant is rare. Inchnedamff, in Sutherland, is one of these--/3. Near Keswick, Cumberland, Mr. H. C. Watson.--y. Not very uncommon in dry situations in the south.--S. Bomere Pool and Sutton Spa, both near Shrewsbury, Mr. W. Leighton. Nettlecomb, Somerset, Mr. W. C. Trevelyan. Geo.--North America, throughout Europe, and in Africa. 7.--ASPIDIUM CRISTATUM. CRESTED SHIELD-FERN. (Plate III, fig. 4.) Cha.--Frond pinnate. Pinnae opposite, pinnatifid, oblong, obtuse. Segments ovate, decurrent, crenate, bristled. Syn.--Aspidium cristatum, Swz., Willd., Smith, Hook., Spreng., Galp., Mack., Schk., Pursh.--Polypodium cristatum, Linn., Afzel in Stochh. Trans, for 1787.--(Not. of Bolt., With., or Huds.) Polystichum cristatum, Roth., Decan, Hoffm.--Polypodium callipteris, Ehrh., Hoffm.--Lastrsva cristata, Presl, Newm...
