. The Annals of Scottish natural history. Natural history; Natural history -- Scotland. CYSTOPTERIS MONTANA IN STIRLINGSHIRE. is but twenty-seven miles distant in a direct line from the " Second City," and is visited annually by many botanists, it should only at this late day be telling us that Cystopteris montana belongs to its flora and to the flora of Stirlingshire. Through the kind- ness of Mr. Bennett, I am in a position to give particulars in full of the other five counties in Britain in which C. mon- tana has been found ; they are: (69) Westmorland, on Helvellyn ; (88) Perth,
. The Annals of Scottish natural history. Natural history; Natural history -- Scotland. CYSTOPTERIS MONTANA IN STIRLINGSHIRE. is but twenty-seven miles distant in a direct line from the " Second City," and is visited annually by many botanists, it should only at this late day be telling us that Cystopteris montana belongs to its flora and to the flora of Stirlingshire. Through the kind- ness of Mr. Bennett, I am in a position to give particulars in full of the other five counties in Britain in which C. mon- tana has been found ; they are: (69) Westmorland, on Helvellyn ; (88) Perth, Mid, on the Breadalbanes ; (90) Forfar, in Caenlochan Glen ; (92) Aberdeen, South, in Glen Callater; and, lastly, Argyle, Main, on Ben Laoigh, on its north-west side, as I have been kindly Lowest pinna of Cysto- informed by Mr. G. Claridge Druce, , Pte>j >"°»Ja™ (show- 0 ing fructification). who was the discoverer of it there. C. montana was first found in Britain by Mr. W. Wilson, on Ben Lawers, in 1836. Its foreign distribution, according to Sir J. D. Hooker, is in "arctic and alpine regions in Europe, Asia, and ; The genus Cystopteris, of which there are five species known to science, has in Britain (excluding the doubtful C. alpina of Desvaux) two representatives, viz. the subject of this communication, and C. fragilis, Bernh. The latter, as we know, is common ; I have taken it near Glasgow under the shade of a hawthorn hedge, between Fossil Marsh and Cadder " Wilderness " in Lanarkshire. Its altitudinal range is from the sea-level to 4000 feet, contrasting in this with C. montana, which latter, however, though an " alpine," grows well from its creeping rhizome in our gardens under cultiva- tion. [For permission to use the figure I am indebted to the courtesy of Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., publishers of " British Ferns, and where ;]. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned p
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