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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW.

HAND-LIST

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FERNS AND FERN ALLIES

CULTIVATED IN

THE ROYAL BOTANIC GABDENS.

(SECOND EDITION.)

LONDON: ,

SOLE AT THE ROYAL SOTANIC GARDENS, KEW.

PRINTED FOR HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE,

By DARLING & SOX, Ltd.. 34-40, Bacon Street, E.

1906.

Price Firepence.

UK

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PREFACE.

THE general purpose of the series of Hand-lists of the plants cultivated in the Royal Gardens which is in course of publication, and of which the present one is a part, is sufficiently indicated in the preface to that which enumerates the trees and shrubs.

The collection of Ferns, whether tropical or temperate, is perhaps, next to that of Palms, the most important feature of the cultivation under glass in the Royal Gardens.

A special interest attaches to it, because it has been used so much in the preparation of most of the books and papers dealing with ferns which have been published in this country during the last half century. The celebrated botanical artist, Francis Bauer, was resident draughtsman for 50 years (1790-1840) to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the beautiful series of analytical drawings of ferns which he made were published by Sir William Hooker, after his death in 1842, with descriptive letter- press and additions, under the title of Genera Filicum. During the 25 years (1840-1865) for which Sir William Hooker was the director of the gardens, his attention was specially concentrated on ferns. Under the title of Specie* Filicum he published an elaborate work in five 1000 Wt 29117 5/06 D&S 29 231)41 a 2

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volumes, in which all the known species of typical ferns are fully described, and their synonomy and geographical distribution worked out, with copious illustrations by Mr. Walter Fitch. Of this, the first volume appeared in 1846, and the last in 1864. He planned also a condensed hand-book of all the known ferns, to be called Synapsis Filicum, intended specially for the use of colonists and travellers. All the drawings for this had been made, but the letter-press was not far advanced when he died in the autumn of 1865. It was completed by Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., now Keeper of the Herbarium, in 1868, and a second edition was brought out in 1874. Since that date many hundred new species have been dis- covered, and a volume of Hooker's Icones Plantarum, containing plates and descriptions of the more interesting of the novelties, was published in 1887. Mr. Baker hag also published in the Annals of Botany (1891) a summary of new ferns discovered or described since 1874. The type specimens from which most of the descriptions and plates contained in this series of books have been made are deposited in the Kew Herbarium.

The living collection in the garden owes its com- pleteness very largely to the zeal and assiduity with which the veteran pteridologist, Mr. John Smith, curator of the Royal Gardens from 1841-63, watched over it for more than 40 years.

In his privately printed Records of Kew (pp. 322, 323) he gives the following particulars of its origin and de- velopment : " In the year 1822 I found the collection of ferns at Kew extremely poor, especially as regards tropical species, very many of those introduced in previous years

having been lost and very few new ones added. . . . /.The tender exotic species were more or less of them growing without any arrangement in different houses, and un- named, their number amounting to about 40. In 1825 I arranged the tropical species in a group at the end of the then lean-to house . . . now included in the tropical fern house, the area they occupied being 6 ft. by 12 ft. These formed the nucleus of the now great collection. They were successively added to by importations of living plants, as also plants raised from spores obtained from herbarium specimens."

" The collection continued yearly to increase, and in 1846 [1845] I drew up a list of the collection, which was published in an appendix to the Botanical Magazine, for that year ; the number then amounted to 400 [378] species. This in 1857 [1856] was followed by another list, entitled ' Catalogue of Cultivated Ferns,' in which 600 [504] species are enumerated."

The principal books published by Mr. Smith are his Ferns, British and Foreign, issued in 1866, which con- tains a classified list of all the species then known in cultivation, full directions for the cultivation of ferns of the different climatic types and by far the most complete history of their gradual introduction which has ever appeared in print, and his Historia Filicum, issued in 1875, which contains woodcuts of 220 types and gives a full exposition of his views on fern classification.

In 1868 the last published list was prepared by Mr. J. G. Baker. It enumerates 802 species and varieties of ferns and 48 of fern allies.

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The present list comprises 1116 species and varieties of ferns and 97 of fern allies ; this is exclusive of British ferns, of which 536 varieties are in cultivation.

The collection falls into three great groups : (i.) Tropical ; (ii.) Temperate ; and (iii.) Hardy Ferns.

The Tropical Ferns are cultivated in No. II. House.

The Temperate Ferns are cultivated in No. III. ; the Filmy Ferns have a separate House (No. II. A), con- structed for the special treatment which they require. The fine collection of Temperate Tree Ferns is contained in the Temperate House.

The Hardy Ferns are arranged on and about a small

7 rockery, of the Key Plan, and forming the south

boundary of Lawn L.

The structural development of the buildings in which the collection is housed has kept pace with its growth. Their history may be given briefly.

The Tropical Fern House (No. II.) is a span-roofed house 129 feet long, 34 feet broad, and 15 feet high in the centre. It has a wide transept on the south side, 40 feet long. 33 feet wide, and 19 feet high.

In 1841 the site of this house was occupied by two lean-to houses used for miscellaneous collections of stove plants. They are enumerated in Dr. Lindley's Report to the Treasury (1838) as Nos. 2 and 3 ; the former stood to the west, and was 50 feet long ; the length of the other

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was 60 feet. It was in No. 2 that, as stated above, John Smith first arranged the nucleus of the collection of Tropical Ferns.

In 18-43, No. 2 was doubled and made into a span house.

In 1845, No. 3 was entirely taken down, and a new span-roofed house erected in its place. It joined on to No. 2, which was kept at a somewhat lower temperature, but opened into it through a partition. The centre was filled up with slate shelf staging, and the sides with stone shelves. No. 2 was used as a stove for rare palms and large tropical ferns. No. 3 was at first occupied by the Woburn collection of orchids presented by Her Majesty the Queen ; for this purpose it proved eventually un- suited. The orchids were gradually replaced by Aroidece and ferns. Ultimately the latter obtained possession of the whole house. According to John Smith (Records, p. 334), " the centre of the house was a raised sloping rockery, amongst which the plants were growing in a natural state, forming fine bushy specimens."

A small house for tree ferns was built in 1861 ; this was connected with the principal house in 1868, and now forms the transept.

In 1879 the Tropical Fern House, which from the decay of the timbers had lapsed into an almost ruinous condition, was further severely damaged by the hail storm of August 3rd; 1,152 panes of glass in it were broken. It was subsequently put into a thorough state of repair, but the collections received considerable damage.

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In 1887 the west end of the house was set back a few feet ; the staging was partly re-arranged and the broad path through the transept was made.

The humid conditions necessary for the cultivation of tropical ferns are unfortunately not conducive to the preservation of the structures in which they are grown when they are built of wood. In 1889 it therefore again became necessary to renew the east wing of No. II. House. In order to secure greater durability it was decided to use iron for the principal framework, and wood only for the lights. The top ventilation was provided for by means of a lantern instead of by the older and more clumsy method of sliding sashes. At the same time the use of green glass in the reconstructed wing was abandoned- This was introduced at Kew in 1846 on the recommenda- tion of the late Mr. Robert Hunt, F.R.S., who advocated its use on theoretical grounds which are now known to be mistaken. The resulting improvement in the growth of the plants, especially the species of Adiantiim was very marked, and in 1892 a portion of the west wing was re-glazed with equally satisfactory results.

The temperate ferns are now collected in a house (No. III.), which was also built on the system of mixed iron and wood construction. It was erected in 1892 to take the place of a decayed and obsolete structure com- posed of two small greenhouses united together, Nos. 4 and 5 of Dr. Lindley's report. The former (the northern wing) was erected in 1803, and in 1840 contained New Holland and Cape plants ; the latter, which was " re- modelled " in 1825, was tilled with succulents.

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The reconstructed No. III. is a span-roofed house 60 feet long, 23 feet wide, and 13 feet high. It contains a broad central and two side stages, with paths on both sides.

The north wing of the former No. III. had been latterly devoted almost exclusively to filmy ferns after the Kew collection had been enriched by the gift of that formed by the late John Cooper Forster, which was presented to the Royal Gardens in 1888 by his widow.

The collection is now contained in the new Filmy Fern House (No. II. A.) erected on the north side of No. II. It is o0 feet long by 11 feet wide, with a central path and two cases running the full length of the house.

The hardy ferns occupy the rockery originally devoted to Alpine plants (before the construction of the Rock Garden in 1882), and it extends over part of the adjacent ground. A collection was established here in 1874, and the rockery itself was reconstructed in 1888.

The collection as a whole is now probably the richest in existence in garden forms of British species. This is due to the munificent bequest by W. C. Carbonell, Esq., of the extensive collection formed by him at Rhiw Castell, Usk, Monmouthshire. The whole was removed to Kew in 1887. It consisted of 1,261 specimens, many probably unique, besides some hundreds of seedlings.

The total number of well-marked species of ferns and the vascular Cryptogamia (fern allies) now mounts up to 3,500. Not more than one-third of these have been 23941 b

brought into cultivation, and Kew is always glad to receive any additions, if possible in the form of well- established plants ; if not, in the shape of dry spores, which can be collected and sent very easily by post in small packets.

The following table, which shows the percentage of the total number of ferns found in different parts of the world was drawn up by Mr. Baker in 1867 ; but he does not think that the discoveries of the last 20 years will have altered any of the figures materially :

Arctic Zone

1 per

cent

Europe

1

»1

Temperate Asia, including

Himalavas

18

Temperate N. America ...

5

)!

Temperate S. Africa

7

Australia and New Zealand

9

South temperate America

5

»)

Tropical Africa

15

V

Tropical Asia

39

»

Tropical America...

42

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The present hand list is divided into three parts :

(i.) Ferns proper (pp. 13-133) ;

(ii.) Fern allies (pp. 13-1-113) ; and

(iii.) as an appendix, a list of garden forms of British species (pp. 115-183).

With regard to (i.) ferns proper, the arrangement is alphabetical and synonyms have been only sparingly introduced, those included being chiefly such as are in

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use in gardens and which are here referred to the correct name in each case. It has not been thought necessary, therefore, to supply an index. Those who wish to pursue the study of fern-nomenclature further may fall back on Hooker and Baker's Synopsis Filicum, upon which the present hand-list is substantially based.

The fern allies (ii.) have also been grouped alphabetically. It has not been thought necessary for the present purpose to separate them according to a botanical classification.

The cultivated and feral varieties of British ferns (iii.) have been enumerated in an appendix. Although the collection of them at Kew is very rich, they stand in a different position to the collection of recognised and well- determined species. Apart from their intrinsic beauty, which is often striking, they are of considerable scientific interest as showing the range of variation due to crossing and seminal reproduction. The amateurs and cultivators who have raised them have furnished them with Latin names, often cumbrous and fantastic, which have received no formal definition. They cannot, therefore, be fixed or quoted for any scientific purpose ; they have, in fact, the same relationship to the species from which they have originated as bedding pelargoniums bear to Pelargonium zonule or as the drumhead and other cabbages to Brass ica oleracea.

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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

The edition of the Hand-List of Ferns and Fern- Allies cultivated in the Royal Gardens which was issued in 1895 has for some time been exhausted. Since its publication some change has taken place in the compo- sition of the Fern-collection. The present edition, the preparation of which for the press has been entrusted to Mr. C. H. Wright, A.L.S., Assistant in the Herbarium, is an attempt to enumerate the species and varieties now in cultivation at Kew. The species that have been acquired since 1895 are here included ; those that are not now in cultivation at Kew have been omitted. A few casual errors that had crept into the previous edition have been corrected. To facilitate the identification of the plants selected references have been given to publications in which reliable figures are to be found. In other respects the present edition follows the lines on which the edition of 1895 was prepared.

The table drawn up by Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., in 1867, to show the percentage of the total number of ferns that had been collected up to that time in different parts of the world, which is included in the preface to the 1895 edition of this hand-list, is found, in the light of our present knowledge of the groups dealt with, to require revision. It will not be possible, until some general list, such as Carl Christensen's admirable Index Filicum (now in course of publication) is available,

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to give absolute percentages. But the subjoined table, which may be taken as approximately accurate, will, it is hoped, be useful both in itself and for comparison with Mr. Baker's table, which remains of great historical interest :

Arctic Zone ...

Europe

Temperate Asia, including the Himalayas above 8,000 ft.

North Africa, Canary Is. ...

Temperate X. America

Temperate S. Africa

Australia and New Zealand

Polynesia ... ...

Temperate S. America

Tropical Africa and Mascarene Is. 15*2

Tropical Asia ... ... ... 84-8

Tropical America ... 46-4

•4

per cent

2-5

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25-5

i>

•8

?>

3-2

»»

4-5

1?

6*9

11

10-8

11

2-7

1*

Kew. March, 1906.

D. P.

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I.-FERNS.

Acrophorus. See Davallia.

Acrostichum, L.

A. acuminatum, Hook. Brazil.

A. alienum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. apodum, Kaulf. West Indies, Tropical America and Chile. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Ell. t. 99.

A. aureum. L. Tropical and sub-tropical regions.

A. auritum, Sw. Malaya, Polybotrya aurita, Bl. : Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 81.

A. Burchellii, Baker. Brazil.

.4. biixifolium, Kze. See sorbifolium, var.

A. Caenopteris, Kze. Tropical America.

A. callcefoJium, Bl. See iatifolium, var.

A. cervinum, Sw. Tropical America. Olfersiacervina, Kze ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 43.

A. conforme, Sw. Tropical and sub-tropical regions.

A. crassinerve, Kze. See Iatifolium, var.

A. crinitum, L. West Indies and Central America Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 1.

A. crispatu/um, Wall. See virens, var.

A. cuspidatum, Willd. West Indies to Peru.

A. decoratum, Kze. West Indies, Guiana, Brazil and Peru.

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Acrostichum, L. cant.

A. decurrens, Desv. Philippines. Gh/mnopteris decur- rens, Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 6.

A. drynarioides, Hook. Penang, Solomon Isles, Ne\i Guinea.

A. Feei, Bory. West Indies to Ecuador.

A. flagelliferum, Wall. Tropical Asia. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 23.

A. gramineum, Jenm. "West Indies.

A. Herminieri, Bory. West Indies to Brazil.

A. heteromorphum, Kl. Colombia and Ecuador.

A. hybridum, Bory. Tropical Africa. Tropical America.

A. latifolium, Siv. Tropics. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 42. var. angustifolium, Hort. Tropical America, var. callaefolium, (Bl.) Baker. Java, var. conopodium, Hort. var. crassinerve, (Kze) Baker. Brazil.

A. Lingua, Raddi. West Indies and Tropical America.

A. long I folium, Jacq. See latifolium.

A. luridum, Fee. Trinidad, Guiana.

A. magnum, Bake): British Guiana.

A. melanopus, Kze. Venezuela.

A. muscosum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. osmundaceum, Hook. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. peltatum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. prieurianum, Kl. See sorbifolinm, var.

A. quercifolium, Rets. Tropical Asia. GymrippteriK quercifolia, Benin. ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 80.

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Acrostichum, L. cont.

A. repandum, BL Tropical Asia, Queensland and the Seychelles.

var. quoyanum, Baker. Moluccas.

A. rigidum. Wall. Malay Peninsula and. Islands.

A. scandens, J. Sm. Tropical Asia, Queensland and Fiji.

A. Sieberi, Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 237. Mascarene Islands.

A. simplex, tigw. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. sorbifolium, L. Tropics.

var. buxifolium, (Kse) Baker. Madagascar, var. prieurianum, (A7.) Baker. Guiana.

A. spicatum, L. Tropics of the Old World. Hymeno- lepis spicata, Presl ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 78.

A. tomentosum, Bory. Bourbon.

A. undulatum, Willd. See villosum, var.

A. variabile, Hook. Tropical Asia.

A. villosum, Sw. Tropical America. Hook. <fc Grev. Ic. Fil. t, 95.

var. undulatum, Baker. West Indies and Mexico to Ecuador.

A. virens, Wall. Tropical Asia, Tropical Africa. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 221.

var. crispatulum, Baker. India.

Actiniopteris, Link.

A. radiata, Link. Tropical Asia, Tropical Afria. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 975. var. australis, Baker. Mascarene Islands. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 976.

Adiantopsis. See Cheilanthes.

Adiantum, L.

A. aethiopicum, L. Tropical and south temp, zones. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 77.

var. assimile, (Sw.) Baiter. Australia. var. aureum, Hort.

A. affine, Hook. See diaphanum.

A. amah He, Moore. See Moorei.

A. aneitense, Carruth. Aneiteum.

A. assimile Sw. See aethiopicum, var.

A. Balfourii, Baker. Socotra. Hook. lc. PI. fc. 1630.

A. Bausei, Moore. Garden origin. Gard. Chron. 1879,

xi. 456, figs. 69-70.

A. bellum, Moore. Bermuda, Guiana. Gard. Chron. 1879, xi. 172, fig. 24.

A. bessonianwn, O'Brien. See tenerum, var.

A. Birkenheadii, Moore. Garden origin.

A. *Capillus-Veneris, L. Tropical and temp, zones. Hook. Brit, Ferns, t. 41.

A. cardiochhena, Kze. See poly phy Hum.

A. Catharince, J. Sm. See trapeziforme, var.

A. caudatum, L. Tropics. Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 104.

var. ciliatum, Hort.

A. chrysophyllum,13.ort. See aethiopicum, var. aureum.

A. clsesianum, L. Lind. & Rod. Brazil. 111. Hort. 1894, 137, t. 9.

A. Collisii, Moore. Garden origin.

A. colpodes, Moore. Tropical America.

var. elegans, Hort.

* For garden varieties, see p. l.">7.

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Adiantum, L. cont.

A. concinnum, H. B. & K. Tropical America, var. Fleming"!!, Hort. var. gracile, Hort. var. latum, Moore.

A. crenatum, Willd. West Indies, Mexico.

A. cristatum, L. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. cultratum, J. Sm. See trapeziforme. var.

A. cuneatum, Langsd. & Finch. Tropica) America Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 30.

var. aemulum, (Moore) Baker.

var. deflexum, Hoy^t.

var. dissectum, Hort.

var. elegantissimum, Hort.

var. gracillimum, (Moore) Baker.

var. grandiceps, Hort.

var. grandis, Hort.

var. lambertianum, Hort.

var. Legrandi, Hort.

var. mundulum, (Moore) Baker.

var. Pacotti, Hort.

var. Reginse, Hort.

var. schizophyllum, Hort.

var. striatum, Hort.

var. variegatum, Hort.

A. curvatum, Kaulf. Brazil. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. t. 84, fig. C. var. brasiliense, Baker. Brazil.

A. cyclosorum, Moore. Ecuador.

A. decorum. Moore. See Wagneri.

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Adiantum, L. cont.

A. densum, Hort. Garden origin.

A. diaphanum, Bl. S. China, Malaya, Polynesia, N. Zealand and New S. Wales.

A. digitatum, Presf. Tropical America.

var. palmatum, Baker. A. palmatum, Moore, Gard. Chron. 1877, vii. 40, fig. 5.

var. speciosum, (Hook.) Baker.

A. dolabriforme, Hook. See ltmulatum, var.

A. dolosum, Kze. Tropical America.

A. Edgeworthii, Hook. Northern India and China. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. t. 81, fig. B.

A. elegans, Moure. Garden origin.

A. emarginatum, Bory. See aethiopicum.

A. excisum, Kze. Chili. var. Leyi, Hort. var. multifidum, Hort. var. nanum, Hort.

A. farleyense, Moore. See tenernm, var.

A. fasciculatum, Hort. Garden origin.

A. Faulkneri, Hort. Garden origin.

A. Fergusoni, Moore. Ceylon.

A. formosum, R. Br. Temperate Australia and New Zealand. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. t. 8t>, tig. B.

A. fragile, Sw. West Indies.

A. fulvum, Raoul. New Zealand, N. S. Wales, Fiji. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. t. 85, fig. A.

A. Funckii, Hort. See trapeziforme.

A. glaucophyllum, Hook. Central America.

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Adiantum, L. cont.

A. grandice/js, Hort. See cuneatum, var.

A. henslovianum, Hook./. Colombia, Peru, c'c.

A. heterophyllum, Hort. Garden origin.

A. hirtum, Klotzsch. Tropical America. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. t. 82, fig. A.

A. hi8pidulum, Sic. Tropics of the Old World, var. tenellum, Moore. Australia.

A. Hosei, Baker. Borneo.

A. Kaulfussii, Kze. Tropical America.

A. kerchovianum, Hort. Garden origin.

A. Lathomi, Moore. See tenerum, var.

A. Legrandi, Hort. See cuneatum, var.

A. lineatum, Linden. Garden origin. 111. Hort. ISVb, 312, t. 44.

A. lucidum, Siv. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. t, 79, fig. C.

A. luddemannianum, Hort. Garden origin.

A. lunulatum, Burin. Tropics. Hook. & Grev. lc. Fil. t. 104. var. dolabriforme, Baker. A. dolabriforme, Hook. Ic. PL t. 191.

var. fernandezianum, Hort.

A. macrophyllum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. lc. Fil. t. 132.

var. albostriatum, Hort.

var. bipinnatum, Jenm. Jamaica.

A. magnijicum, Hort. See Wagneri.

A. manicatum, Hort. See concinnum.

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Adiantum, L. emit.

A. matthewsianum, Hook. See polyphyllum.

A. Moorei. Baker. Amies of Peru.

A. moritzianum, Link. See A. Capillus- Veneris.

A. mundulum, Moore. See cuneatum, var.

A neoguineense, Moure. New Guinea.

A. Novae-Caledoiiise, Keys. New Caledonia.

A. obliquum, Willd. West Indies. Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 190.

A. obtusum. Desv. West Indies. Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 188.

A. Pacotti, Hort. See excisum.

A. patens, Willd. Tropical America. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. t. 87, fig. A.

A. pellucidum, Mart. & Gal. See aethiopicum.

A. pedatum, L. Temperate Asia. North America.

A. peruvianum, Klotzsch. Peru.

A. plume-sum, Hort. Garden origin.

A. polyphyllum, Willd. Tropical America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 12.

A. prionophyllum* H. B. & K. See tetraphyllum.

A. pulverulentum, L. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. Reginw, Hort. See Capillus- Veneris.

A. reniforme, L. Madeira and Tenerifte. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 8.

var. asarifolium, Baker. Mauritius and Bourbon. A. asarifolium, Willd. ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 11.

A. rhodophyllum, Moore. Garden origin.

A. rhomboideum, Hort. See obtusum.

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Adiantum, L. cant.

A. roseum, Hort. Garden origin.

A. rubellum, Moore. Andes uf Bolivia.

A. scabrum, Kze. See aethiopicum.

A. scutum, Hort. See tenerum, var.

A. Seemanni, Hook. Central America, Brazil. Gard. Chron. 1875, iii. 396-7, fig. 77-8.

A. sess Hi 'folium, Hook. See henslovianum.

A. setulosu/u, J. Sm. See diaphanurn.

A. speciosum, Hook. See digitatuin, var.

A. Tabu rum, Hort. See exeisum.

A. tenellum, Moore. See hispidulum.

A. tenerum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

var. alcicome, Hort.

var. bessonianum, (O'Brien).

var. farleyense, Andre. A. furleyense, Moore ; 1-1 . Serres, tt. 1933-4.

var. gracile, Hort.

var. Lathomi, Hort.

var. RegineB, Hort.

var. scutum, Hort.

var. scutum ramosum, Hort.

var. Victoria, {Moore) Baker.

A. tetraphyllum, Willd. West Indies, Tropica I America, var. acuminatum, Hort. var. gracile, Hort.

A. tinctum, Moore. Andes of Peru.

Adiantum, L. cont.

A. trapeziforme, L. West Indies, Tropical America, var. Catharinae, J. Sm. var. cultratum, Baker. var. Funckii, Hort.

A. veitchianum, Moore. Andes of Peru.

A. velutinum, Moore. Andes of Colombia.

A. venustum, G. Don. Afghanistan and Himalaya. Hook. Sp. Fil. ii. t. 76, fig. B.

var. integrifolium, Baker. Himalaya.

A. Victoria', Moore. See tenerum, var.

A. Wagneri, Mett. Andes of Peru.

A. Weigandii, Moore. Garden origin.

A. Williamsii, Moore. Andes of Peru. Gard. Chron. 1878, x. 45, fig. 4.

Aglaomorpha. See Polypodium. Aleuritopteris. See Cheilanthes. Allosorus. See Pella'a and Cryptogramme.

Alsophila, U. Br.

A. armata, Presl. Tropical America.

A. australis, R. Br. Australia and Tasmania. Hook. Sp. Fil. i. t. 19, fig. A.

A. contaminans, Wall. India, Malaya. Fl. ties Serres, tt. 2264-5.

A. Cooperi, Hook. Australia.

A. excelsa, R. Br. Norfolk Island.

A. infesta, Kze. Tropical America.

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Alsophila, R. Br. cont.

A. leichardtiana, F. Muell. Australia. Flor. & Horn. 1873, 229.

A. MaeArthurii, Hook. See Leichardtiana.

A. Malzinei, Hort. Mexico,

A. nigra, Jenm. (an Mart./). Trinidad.

A. procera, Kaulf. Tropical America.

A. pruinata, Kaulf. West Indies, Tropica! and Tem- perate S. America.

A. robusta, De Vriese. Java.

A. Tsenitis, Hook. Brazil.

A. tomentosa, Hook. Java, Formosa.

A. truncata. Brack. Fiji, Samoa.

Amphicosmia. See Hemitelia.

Anapeltis. See Polypodium.

A. nit/da, J. Sm. See P. lycopodioides.

Anchistea. See Woodwardia.

Anemia, Sw.

A. adiantifolia, Siv. West Indies, Tropical America Hook & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 16.

A. collina, Raddi. Brazil. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 1.

A. dregeana, Kze. Natal. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 236.

A. fraxinifolia. Raddi. See Phyllitidis.

A. fulva, Sw. See tomentosa, var.

A. hirsuta, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. loiKji folia, Link. See Phyllitidis, var.

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Anemia, Sw. coat.

A. Phyllitidis, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America. Anemidictyon Phyllitidis^ J. Sm. ; Hook. (-Jen. Fil. t, 103.

var. foetid a, Hurt.

var. longifolia, Hurt.

A. tomentosa, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 30.

var. fulva. Moure. Tropical America. -4. fulva, Sw. : Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 26.

Anemidictyon. See Anemia. Anetium. See Hemionitis.

Angiopteris, Hojffm.

A. evecta, Hoffm. Tropics of the Old World. Hook. Fil. Exot. t, 75.

var. brongniartiana, {De Vriese) Baker. Tahiti.

var. durvilleana, {De Vriese) Baker. Polynesia, Manilla.

var. hypoleuca, {De Vriese) Baker. Java.

var. miqueliana, {De Vriese) Baker. Java.

var. pruinosa, {Kze) Baker. Java.

var. teysmanniana, {De Vi nese) Baker. Java. Gard. Chron. 1905, xxxvii. May 27, Suppl.

Anisogonium. See Asplenium.

Antigramme. See Scolopendrium.

Arthropteris. See Polypodium tenellum, Nephrodium albopunctatum, and Neplirolepis.

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Aspidium, Sic.

A. acrostichoides, Sw. North America.

A. *aculeatum, Sw. Ubiquitous, var. annulare, Gren. & Godr. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 12. var. lobatum, Hook. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 10. var. moritzianum, (Kl.) Baker. Colombia, var. setosum, (Wall.) Baker. Himalaya, var. tsus-simense, Baker. Japan.

A. amabile, Bl. India, Formosa, Japan.

A. angulare, Willd. See aculeatum, var.

A. angulatum, J. Sm. See Polypodium angulatum.

A. anomalum, Hook. & Am. Ceylon. Polypodium anomalum, Hook. & Arn. in Hook. Journ. Bot. viii. (1856) t. 11..

A. argutum, Kaulf. See Nephrodium rigidum, var. americanum.

A. aristatum, Sw. Tropical Asia, Polynesia, N. S. Wales, Natal. Polystichum aristatum, Presl ; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zealand, t. 78.

var. coniifolium, ( Wall.) Baker.

var. variegatum, Hort.

A. atratum, Wall. See Nephrodium hirtipes.

A. auriculatum, Sw. India, Formosa, Malaya.

A. Boottii, Tuckerm. See Nephrod ium spinulosum, var.

A. capense. Willd. Tropical America and S. temperate zone.

A. caryotidewn, Wall. See falcatum, var.

A. coadunat/am, Hook. & Grev. See Nephrodium cicutarium.

For garden varieties, see p. 157.

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Aspidium, Sw. cont.

A. concavum, Hort. See laserpitiifolium.

A. conflucns, Mett. See Nephrodium.

A. amiifolium, Wall. See aristatum, var.

A. coriaceum, Sw. See capense.

A. erythrosorum, Eaton. See Nephrodium.

A. Fadyenii, Mett. See Fadyenia prolifera.

A. falcatum, Sw. Japan to South Africa. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 02.

var. caryotideum, Baker. Northern India, South Africa. A. caryotideum, Wall. ; Hook & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 69.

var. caryotideum attenuatum, Wort.

var. Fortunei, (J. Sm.) Bake,-. Japan.

var. pendulum, Hort.

A. festimim. Hance. See laserpitiifolium.

A. fra grans, Sw. See Nephrodium.

A. frondosum, Lowe. Madeira.

A. ir regulare, Brackenr. See Nephrodium latifolium.

A. laserpitiifolium. Mett. China. Japan, Tonquin.

A. lepidocaulon. Hook. Japan. Polystichum lejrido- caulon, T. Moore in Gard. Chron. 1875, Hi. 20.",, fig. 36.

A. lobatum, Sw. See aculeatum, var. A. Lonchitis. Sw. N. temp. zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. :>. A. macrophyllum, Sw. See Nephrodium. A/mohrioides. Burg. Temperate S. America. A. munitum. Kan If. W. North America. var. imbricans, Hort.

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Aspidium, Sw. cont.

A. nevadense, Boiss. See Nephrodium rigidum.

A. nevadense, Eaton. See Nephrodium nevadense.

A. Plumieri, Presl. See trifoliatum, var.

A. polymorphum, Wall. See Nephrodium.

A. proliferum, R. Br. See aculeatum.

A. pungens, Kaulf. South Africa.

A. quinqicangulare, Kze. See Nephrodium decom positum.

A. repandum, Willd. Tropical Asia.

A. Stand ishii, Hort. See laserpitiifolium.

A. subtriphyllum, Hook. See Nephrodium.

A. triangulum, Sw. West Indies. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 33. var. ilicifolium, Fee. var. xiphioides, Moore.

A. trifoliatum, Sw. Tropical America.

var. Plumieri, (Presl) Baker.

A. tripteron, Kze. Japan.

A. isus-simense, Hook. See aculeatum, var.

A. uliginosum, Nyman. See Nephrodium cristatum, var.

A. variolosum, Wall. See Nephrodium.

A. varium, Sw. China, Japan.

A. vestitum, Sw. See aculeatum.

Asplenium, L.

A. abscissum, Willd, Tropical America. A. achilleasfolium. Liebm. Mexico.

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Asplenium, L. rant.

A. acutum, Bory. See Adiantum-nigrum, var. Onop- teris.

A. Adiantum-nigrum, L. North and South temp, zones. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 33.

var. Onopteris, Christens.

A. alatum, H. B. tfc K. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 136.

A. angustifolium, Mich. North America.

A. anisophyllum. Kze. Tropical and S. Africa, Tropical America.

.4. apicidenSi Moore. See Vieillardii, var.

A. arborescens, Mett. Mascarene Islands.

A. arboreum. Willd. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. Arnottii. Baker. Sandwich Islands.

A. attenuatum, R. Br. Australia. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 220.

var. integrum, Hort. A. aureum, Link. See Ceterach, var. A. auritum, Siv. India, Mascarene Is., Trop. America.

var. macilentum, Baker.

var. sulcatum, Baker.

A. australasicum, Hook. See Nidus, var.

.4. axillare, Webb & Berth. See umbrosum.

A. bantamense, Baker. Tropical Asia.

A. Baptlstii, Moore. See Vieillardii, var.

A. Belangeri, Kze. Malayan Islands. Hook. Fil. Exot. fc. 41.

A. bifidurn. Fresh See lineatum, var.

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Asplenium, L. cont.

A. brachypteron, Kze. Tropical and South Africa, Mas- carene Islands. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 44.

A. Brownii. J. Sm. See umbrosum.

A. bulbiferum, Forst. Tropical Asia, Mascarene Is., Australia. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 423.

var. fabianum, Baker.

var. Hillii, Hort.

var. laxum, Hook. f. New Zealand.

var. minus, Baker. New Zealand.

var. pumilum, Hort.

var. tripinnatum, Hook./. New Zealand.

A. caryotwfolium, Hort. See cuneatum.

A. celtidifolium, Kze. Tropical America.

A. Ceterach, L. Europe and temp. Asia. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 36.

var. aureum, Baker. Madeira and Canary Is.

A. cicutarium, Siv. Tropical America. A. Colensoi, Hook. f. New Zealand.

A. compressum, Sw. St. Helena. Hook. Fil. Exot.

t. 76.

A. contiguum, Kaulf. Polynesia and Malaya, var. fissum, Hort.

A. cordifolium, Mett. Malaya. Diplazium cordifolium, Bl. ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 936.

A. crenulatum, Baker. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. cultrifolium, L. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. cuneatum, Lam. Polynesia, Africa, Trop. America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 189.

A. Currori, Hook. Tropical Africa. 23941 R

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Asplenium, L. cont.

A. decussatum, Sw. Tropics of Old World.

A. dimidiatum, Sw. Tropical Africa, Trop. America.

A. dimorphum, Kze. Norfolk Island.

A. ebeneum, Ait. Temperate regions.

A. elongatum, Sw. See tenerum, var.

A. e rectum, Bory. See lunulatum.

A. esculentum, Presl. Tropical Asia. Anisogonium esculentum, Presl ; Bedd. Handb. Ferns Ind. 193.

var. glabrum, Hort.

var. serampurense, Baker.

A. fabianum, Hombr. & Jacqnem. See bulbiferum, var.

A. falcatum, Lam. Tropics and sub-tropics, Old World. var. erosum, Hort.

A. feejeense, Brack. Fiji Islands.

A. femandezianum, Kze. See lunulatum, var.

A. *Filix-f(Emina, Bemh. Ubiquitous. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 35.

A. flabellifolium, Cav. Australia. A. flabelliforme, Hook. Exot, Fl. t. 208.

var. Richardsoni, Hort.

A. flaccidum, Forst. Australia, Polynesia, Natal.

A. fceniculaceum, H. B, & K. See fragrans, var.

A. fontanum, Bemh. Nortb temp. zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 34.

A. fragrans, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

var. fceniculaceum, Baker. A. fceniculaceum, H. B. & K. : Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 02.

* For garden varieties, nee p. 165. 23941 B 2

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Asplenium, L. cont. A. furcatum, Thunb. Tropical and sub-tropical regions, var. tripinnatum, Baker. Natal.

A. germanicum, Weiss. Europe. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 27.

A. gcering ianum, Mett. See macrocarpum, var.

A. grandifolium, Siv. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. griffithianum, Hook. Ic. PI. t, 928. Himalaya.

A. Halleri, Willd. See fontanum.

A. Hemionitis, Wall. South Europe and North Africa. Bot, Mag. t. 4911.

A. heterocarpum, Wall. India, Malaya. Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t. 131.

A. heterophlebium, Mett. Himalaya. Anisogonium hetrrophlebium, Bedd. Handb. Ferns Ind. t. 192.

A. hians, Kze. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. incisum, Thunb. China, Japan.

A. lanceolatum, Huds. Europe.

A. lanceum, Thunb. China, Japan, India. .4. subsin- uatunt, Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 27.

.4. lasiopteris, Mett. See Peterseni.

-4. laxum, R. Br. See bulbiferum, var.

A. lineatum, Sw. Mauritius, var. bifidum, Baker. var. inasquale, Baker.

A. longissiraum, BI. Malaya, Mauritius.

.4. lucid urn, Forst. See obtusatum, var.

A. lunulatum, Sw. Tropics and subtropics.

var. erectum, Baker. Mascarene Islands, Tropical America.

Asplenium, L. cont.

A. lunulatum, Siv. cont. var. fernandezianum, (Kze) Baker. Juan Fernandez.

var. pteropus, Baker. Tropical America. A.ptero/nis, Kaulf. ; Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. t. 177.

var. tenellum, (Roxb.) Baker. St. Helena.

var. tripinnatifidum, Hort.

A. macilentum, Kze. See auritum, var.

A. macrocarpum, BL Tropical Asia.

var. gceringianum, (Mett.) Baker. Japan.

A. marginatum, L. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 73.

A. marinum, L. Europe, Canaries and Azores. Hook Brit, Ferns, t. 31.

var. imbricatum, Hort.

var. ramosum, Hort.

A. maximum, G. Don. Tropical Asia, Australia

A. Mayii, Hort. Garden origin. Gard. Chron. 1898, xxiii. 332, fig. 140.

A. Michauxii, Spreng. See Filix-fcemina.

A. monanthemum, L. Temperate regions.

A. Nidus, L. Tropics, Old World. Bot. Mag. t. 3101.

var. australasicum, Baker. Australia. .4. austra- lasicum, Hook. Fil. Exot, t, 88.

var. madagascariense, Hort.

var. multilobatum, Hort. A. niponicum, Mett. Japan.

var. cristatum, Hort. A. nitidum, Sw. India and Malaya. A. nobile, Hort. See viviparum. A. nodulosum, Hort. See lineatnm.

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Asplenium, L. cont.

A. obliquum, Forst. See obtusatum, var.

A. obtusatum, Forsi. South temperate regions. Hook. Fil. Exot. t, 46.

var. lucidum, Baker.

var. Lyallii, Hook. New Zealand.

var. obliquum, Hook. f. New Zealand.

A. obtusilobum, Hook. Polynesia.

A. omatftm, Col. New Zealand.

A. paleaceum, R. Br. Tropical Australia. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. t. 199.

A. Peterseni, Kze. India, Java.

A. planicaule, Wall. India, China.

A. plantagineum, L. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. platy neuron, Oakes. See ebeneum.

A. polyodon, Forst. See falcatum.

A. polypodioides, Mett. Tropical Asia. Dlplazium polypodioides, Bl. ; Bedd. Handb. Ferns Ind. 185.

A. prcemorsum, Sw. See furcatum.

A. procerum, Wall. Northern India.

A. proliferum, Lam. See decussatum.

A. prolongation, Hook. See rutaefolium.

A. pteridoides, Bake?'. Lord Howe's Island.

A. pteropus, Kaulf. See lunulatum, var.

A. pubeseens, Mett. See esculentum.

A. pumilum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. pusillum, Bl. Java.

A. radicans, Schkuhr. West Indies, Tropical America.

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Asplenium, L. cont.

A. reclinatum, Houlst. See lunulatum, var. tenellam.

A. refractum, Moore. See fontanum.

A. resectum, Sm. Japan, Tropical Asia and Africa. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 114.

A. rhizophorum, L. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. t. 187.

A. rigidum, Sw. See auritum, var. sulcatum.

A. rutaefolium, Kze. Tropical and sub-tropical Asia and Africa.

var. prolongatum, {Hook.) Baker.

A. Ruta-muraria, L. North temp. zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 28.

A. scandens, J. Sm. New Guinea, Philippines, Fiji.

A. semihastatum, Kze. Cuba.

A. septentrionale, Hojfm. North temp. zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 26.

A. Serra, Langsd. & Fisch. West Indies, Tropical America and Africa.

var. natalensis, Baker. South Africa.

A. Shepherdi, Spreng. West Indies, Tropical America.

A. sinuatum, Beauv. Tropical Africa. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 61.

A. speciosum, Mett. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.

A. striatum, L. See Shepherdi.

A. subsinuatum, Hook. & Grev. See lanceum.

A. sylvaticum, Presl. Tropics, Old World.

A. tenellum, Roxb. See lunulatum, var.

A. tenerum, Forst. Ceylon, Malaya, Polynesia, var. elongatum, {Sw.) Baker. Malaya.

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Asplenium, L. cont.

A. thelypteroides, Mich. Temp. East Asia, North America.

A. tomentosum, Hook. N. India, Malay Peninsula and Islands.

A. Trichomanes, L. Temp, regions. Hook. Brit. Ferns, , t. 29.

A. umbrosum, J. Sm. Tropical Asia, Africa and Australia, Canary Islands.

var. procerwm, Baker. See procerum. A. unilaterale, Lam. See resectum. .4. veitchianum, Moore. See Belangeri.

A. Vieillardii, Mett. New Caledonia.

var. apicidens, {Moore) Baker. South Sea Islands.

var. Baptistii, {Moore) Baker. South Sea Islands.

var. Drueryi, Hort. A. virescens, Mett. Japan.

A. viride, Hud*. North temp. zone. Hook. Brit. Feme,

t. 30.

A. viviparum, Brest. Mascarene Islands. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 64.

var. nobile, Hort. A. vulcanicum, Bl. Malay Islands.

A. zeylanicum, Hook. Ceylon. Sec. Cent. Ferns, t. 16.

Athyrium. See Asplenium. Balantium. See Dicksonia.

Blechnum, L.

B. Atherstonei, Pappe. See Lomaria punctulata, var.

blechnoides.

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Blechnum, L. cont.

B. Banksii, Mett. See Lomaria.

B. boreale, Sw. See Lomaria Spicant.

B. brasiliense, Desv. Tropical America.

var. corcovadense, (Raddi) Baker. Brazil.

var. crispum, Hort.

B. cartilagineum, Siv. Temperate Australia.

B. corcovadense, Raddi. See brasiliense, var.

B. Gilliesii, Mett. See Lomaria procera.

B. glandulosum, Link. See occidentale, var. distans.

B. gracife, Kaulf. See longifolium, var.

B. hastatum, Kaulf. Temperate South America. B. trilobum, Presl ; Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 192.

B. Lanceola, Sw. Tropical America. Bot. Mag. 1. 15240.

B. lati/olium, Hort. See longifolium.

B. lomarioides, Gaud. See orientale.

B. longifolium, H. B. & K. Tropical America, var. fraxineum, Baker. var. gracile, Baker.

B. occidentale, L. West Indies, Trop. America, Chili, var. distans, Baker. S. Brazil, Uruguay, var. cristatum, Hort.

B. orientale, L. S. China to Polynesia and Australia. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 77.

B. polypodioides, Raddi. See unilaterale. B. punctulatum, Sw. See Lomaria. B. rugosum, Moore. Origin unknown. B. triangulares Link. See unilaterale.

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Blechnum, L. cont.

B. trilobum, Presl. See hastatum.

B. unilaterale, Willd. West Indies, Tropical America.

Bolbitis. See Acrostichum.

Botrychium, Sw.

B. ternatum, Sw. North and south temp, zones.

var. dissectum, Baker. North America, New Zealand.

B. virginianum, Sw. North temp, zone, Trop. America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 29.

Brainea, Hook.

B. insignia, Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 38. Hong Kong and

Khasia.

Caenopteris. See Asplenium. Callipteris. See Asplenium. Campyloneuron. See Polypodium. Campteria. See Pteris. Camptosorus. See Scolopendrium.

Ceratopteris, Brongn.

C. thalictroides, Brongn. Tropics. Parkeria pteridoides,

Hook & Grev. Ic. Fil. t, 97 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. iii. t, 231.

Ceropteris. See Gymnogramme. Ceterach. See Asplenium.

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Cheilanthes, Sw.

C. aficeps, Blandf . See farinosa, var.

C. argentea, Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 95. North Asia, Malay Peninsula.

C. dicksonioides, Endl. See Hypolepis tenuifolia.

C. elegans, Desv. See myriophylla, var.

C. ellisiana, Hort. See hirta, var.

C. farinosa, Kaulf. Tropics. Bot. Mag. t. 4765. var. anceps, Blandf. Himalaya, var. punctata, Hort.

C. fragrans, Siv. Europe, Orient, N. Africa, Canary Is.

C. hirta, Sw. Tropical and South Africa, var. ellisiana, Hort.

C. mexicana, Davenp. Mexico.

C. micromera, Link. See microphylla, var.

C. microphylla, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America, var. micromera, Baker. Central America.

C. myriophylla, Desv. Tropical America, var. elegans, Baker.

C. profusa, Kze. See Pellaea involuta.

C. radiata, B. Br. West Indies, Tropical America.

C. tomentosa, Link. United States and Mexico.

C. undulata, Hope & Wright. China.

C. vestita, Siv. United States.

Chrysodium. See Acrostichum.

Cibotium. See Dicksonia.

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Cincinalis. See Notholaena.

Cionidium. See Deparia.

Coniogramme. See Gymnogramme.

Conpteris. See Lonchitis.

G. brazziana, Linden. See Lonchitis pubescens, var.

Craspedaria. See Polypodium.

Cryptogramme, R. Br.

C. crispa, R. Br. North temp. zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 39.

var. acrostichoides, Baker. North America. G. acrostichoides, R. Br. ; Hook & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 29.

Cyathea, J. E. Smith.

C. arborea, J. E. Sm. West Indies, Tropical America.

C. beyrichiana, Presl. See Hemitelia setosa.

C. dealbata, Sw. New Zealand, var. tricolor, (Col.) Baker.

C. Dregei, Kze. Tropical and South Africa, var. Burkei, Hook. Tropical and South Africa.

C. excelsa, Siv. Bourbon and Mauritius.

C. gracilis, Griseb. Jamaica.

C. Hookeri, Thw . Ceylon.

C. imrayana, Hook. See Tussacii.

C. insignis, D. G. Eaton. West Indies.

C. medullaris, Sw. New Zealand. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 35.

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Cyathea, J. E. Smith cont. C. mexicana, Schlecht. Mexico. C. princeps, J. Sm, See insignia. C. Serra, Willd. West Indies, Tropical America. C. Smithii, Hook. f. See Hemitelia Smithii. C. spinulosa, Wall. India, Japan. C. tricolor, Col. See dealbata. C. Tussacii, Desv. West Indies.

Cyclodium. See Aspidium.

Cyclopeltis. See Aspidium.

Cyrtogonium. See Acrostichum.

Cyrtomium. See Aspidium.

Cyrtophlebium. See Polypodium.

Cystopteris, Bernh.

C. alpina, Desv. Europe, Asia Minor. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 24.

C. bulbifera, Bernh. North America.

C. fragilis, Bernh. Cosmopolitan. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 23.

var. angustata, Link. Europe.

var. dickieana, Moore. Scotland.

C. montana, Link. Europe, North America. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 25.

C. tenuis, Schott. See fragilis. Darea. See Asplenium.

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Davallia, J. E. Smith.

D. aculeata, Siv. West Indies. var. inermis, Hort.

D. affinis, Hook. Tropical and sub-tropical Asia, Polynesia.

D. alpina, Bl. Malaya, Polynesia.

D. angustata, Wall. Malay Peninsula and Islands. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 231.

D. assamica, Baker. Bhotan, Manipur.

D. bullata, Wall. Japan, Tropical Asia. var. cristata, Hort.

var. cyphochlamys, Baker <k Clarke. Northern India, var. decora. {Moore) Baker. Java, var. Mariesii, {Moore) Baker. Japan.

D. canariensis, J. E. Sm. Western Europe and the Canaries.

D. chaerophylla, Wall. India, Malaya.

D. ciliata, Hook. Philippines, var. angustata, Hort.

D. decora, Moore. See bullata, var. D. decurrens, Hook. Philippines. D. dissecta, J. Sm. Java, var. elegans, Hort.

D. divaricata, Bl. India, Malaya.

D. elata, Sw. See elegans, var.

D. elegans, Sw. Tropical Asia, Africa and Australia, var. elata, Baker. var. Kunzei, Hort. Malya. var. polydactyla, Hort.

Davallia, J. E. Smith cont.

D. epiphylla, Bl. Malay Peninsula, Java.

D. fejeensis, Hook. Fiji Islands, var. effusa, Hort. var. gracillima, Hort. var. major, Hort. var. plumosa, Hort. var. robusta, Hort.

D. fijiensis, Hook. & Baker. See fejeensis.

D. foeniculacea. Hook. Fiji.

D. glabella, Hort. Garden origin.

D. griffithiana, Hook. China, India, Malaya.

D. hemiptera, Bory. See repens.

D. heterophylla, J. E. Sm. Malay Peninsula, Polynesia. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 27.

D. hirta, Kaulf. India, Malaya, Polynesia, var. cristata, Hort.

D. illustris, Hort. Garden origin.

D. immersa, Wall. India, Malaya. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 79.

D. khasyana, Hook. See strigosa.

D. lawsoniana, Hort. Garden origin.

D. Lindleyi, Hook. See solida, var. caudata.

D. Lorranei, Hance. Malay Peninsula.

D. lonchitidea, Wall. See platyphylla.

D. lucida, Hort. See solida.

D. madagascariensis, Baker. Madagascar.

D. majuscula, Loive. Ceylon.

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Davallia, J. E. Smith cant.

D. marginalis, Baker. China, Japan, India.

D. Mariesii, Moore. See bullata, var.

D. mauritiana, Hook. Mauritius.

D. mooreana, Masters. See pallida.

D. nitidula, Kze. Tropical and South Africa.

D. Novae-Zealandise, Col. New Zealand.

D. ornata, Wall. See solida, var. latifolia.

D. pallida, Mett. Malaya and Polynesia, var. intermedia, Hart.

D. parvula, Wall. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago.

D. pedata, J. E. Sm. Tropical and subtropical Asia, Australia. Mascarene Islands. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 7.

D. pentaphvlla, Bl. Java, Polynesia. Hook. Fil. Exot.

t. 37. "

D. platypkylla, D. Don. India. D. lonchitidea, Wall. ; Hook. Fil. Exot, t. 19.

D. polyantha, Hook. See divaricata.

D. polypodioides, D. Don. See Spelnncae.

D. pulchella, Hook. Philippines, Fiji, Samoa.

D. pulchra, D. Don. China, India.

D. pycnocarpa, Brackenr. See pentaphylla.

D. repens, Desv. India, Malaya, Polynesia.

D. retusa, Cav. See Lindsaya retusa.

D. rhomboidea, Wall. See strigosa, var.

D. scabra, D. Don. See marginalis.

63

Davallia, J. E. Smith cont.

D. solida, Sw. Malaya, Polynesia, Queensland. Hook. Pil. Exot. t. 57.

var. caudata, Hook. Singapore.

var. latifolia, Hook. Penang.

var. Lindleyi, Hook. See var. caudata.

var. lucida, Hort.

D. Speluncae, Baker. Tropics, ubiquitous.

D. stenocarpa, Hort. Par. See madagascariensis.

D. strigosa, Sw. Tropical and subtropical Asia, Polynesia.

var. rhomboidea, Hook. Northern India.

D. tenuifolia, Sw. Tropics of the Old World, var. stricta, Hort. var. Veitchii, Hort.

D. trichosticlia, Hook. See Speluncae.

D. triphylla, Hook. Singapore.

D. Tyermanni, Baker. China. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1620.

D. villosa, Wall. See marginalis.

Dennstaedtia. See Dicksonia.

Deparia, Hook. & Grev.

D. Moorei, Hook. New Caledonia. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 28. .

Diacalpe, Bl.

D. aspidioides, BL Tropical Asia.

Dicksonia, V Her it.

D. adiantoides, H. B. & K. West Indies, Tropical America.

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Dicksonia, VHerit. cont.

D. antarctica, Labill. Australia.

D. apiifolia, Rook. Andes of Ecuador and Peru.

D. arborescens. VHerit. St. Helena.

D. Barometz, Link. Sub-tropical Asia.

D. Chamissoi, Hook. <fc Baker. Sandwich Islands.

D. cicutaria, S'u>. West Indies, Tropical America, var. tenera, Hort.

D. Culcita, VHerit. Madeira, Azores and Spain.

D. davallioides, R. Br. Australia.

D. Deplanchei, Vieill. New Caledonia.

D. fibrosa, Cot. New Zealand.

D. glauca, J. E. Sm. Sandwich Islands.

D. gracilis, Got. New Zealand.

D. Herberti, Hilt. Queensland ?.

D. karsteniana, Klotzsch. See sellowiana, var.

D. Lathami, Moore. Garden origin. Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 584, 689, fig. 154.

D. Menziesii, Hook. & Baker. Sandwich Islands.

D. ohtusifolia, Willd. See adiantoides.

D. princeps, Hort. See Cjrathea insignis.

D. jfunctiloba, Hook. See punctilobula.

D. punctilobula, .4. Gray. North America.

D. regalis, Baker. Mexico.

D. rubiginosa, Kaulf. West Indies, Tropical America.

D. Schiedei, Baker. Central America. 23941 c

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Dicksonia, V Her it. cont.

D. seilowiana, Hook. South Brazil.

var. karsteniana, Baker. Guatemala and Andes of Colombia.

D. spectabilis, Hort. See Wendlandi.

D. squarrosa, Sw. New Zealand.

D. tenera, Hort. See apiifolia.

D. Wendlandi, Baker. Guatemala, var. Verschaffeltii, Hort.

D. Youngige, C. Moore. New South Wales.

Dictyogramme. See Gymnogramme.

Dictyopteris. See Polypodium.

Didymochlsena, Desv.

D. lunulata, Desv. Tropics, ubiquitous. Hook. Gard . Ferns, t. 17.

D. sinuosa, Desv. See lunulata.

D. truncatula, J. Sm. See lunulata.

Didymoglossum. See Hymenophyllum.

Diplazium. See Asplenium.

Dipteris. See Polypodium.

Disphenia. See Cyathea.

Doodia, R. Br.

D. amcena, Hort. Garden origin.

D. aspera, R. Br. Temperate Australia, var. multifida, Hort. 23941 r •»

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Doodia, R. Br. cont.

D. blechnoides, Cunn. Australia.

D. caudata, R. Br. Australia and New Zealand.

D. kunthiana, Gaud. Sandwich Islands.

D. lunulata, R. Br. See media.

D. media, R. Br. Polynesia, Australia, New Zealand.

Doryopteris. See Pteris.

Drymoglossum, Presl.

D. carnosum, Hook. Eastern Himalaya, var. minor. Hook. China and Japan.

D. piloselloides, Presl. India, Malaya. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 46.

D. spathulatum, Presl. See piloselloides.

D. subcordatum, Fee. See carnosum, var. minor

Drynaria. See Polypodium.

D. diversifolia, J. Sm. See P. rigidulura. D. morbillosa, J. Sm. See P. Heracleum.

Dryopteris. See Nephrodium. D. acrostichoides, 0. Kze. See Aspidium.

Egtmolfia. See Acrostichum.

Elaphoglossum. See Acrostichum.

Eupodiuin. See Marattia.

Fadyenia, Hook.

F. prolifera, Hook. West Indies.

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Feea. See Tricbomanes.

Gleichenia, ./. E. Smith.

G. circinata, Sw. Australia, New Zealand, Malaya, var. backhousiana, Hort. var. semivestita, (Labill.) Baker. New Caledonia.

G. dicarpa, R. Br. Australia, New Zealand. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 40.

var. alpina, Hook. Tasmania, New Zealand, Malaya.

var. glauca, Moore.

var. longipinnata, Hort.

G. flabellata, M. Br. Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia. Hook. Fil. Exot. t, 71.

Gf. longipinnata, Hort. See dicarpa, var.

G. rupsstris, B. Br. Australia, var. glaucescens, Hort.

Goniophlebium. See Polypodium.

Goniopteris. See Polypodium.

Gymnogramme, Desv.

G. ampla, Benth. Australia.

G. calomelanos, Kaulf. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 50.

var. Alstoni, Hort.

var. argyrophylla, Hort.

var. chrysophylla, Baker.

var. grandiceps, HorU

var. grandiceps superba, Hort.

var. intermedia, {Fee).

var. Martensii, {Link) Baker.

I *

.

73

Gymnogramme, Desv. cant.

G. caudiformis, Hook. Tropical Asia, Polynesia. Gram- mitis caudiformis, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5328.

G. chrysophylla, Kaulf. See calomelanos.

G. decurretts, Hook. See elliptica.

G. dobroydense, Hort. Garden origin, var. cristata, Hort.

G. elliptica, Baker. Tropical Asia, Queensland. Gram- mitis decurretts, Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 6.

G. gracilis, Heward. Jamaica.

G. hamiltoniana, Hook. Eastern Himalaya.

G. Heyderi, Lauclte. Dominica, var. argentea, Hort.

G. japonica, Hook. Japan, Formosa.

G. laucheana, K. Koch. See calomelanos.

G. leptophylla, Desv. Cosmopolitan. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 1.

G. UHerminieri, Link. See calomelanos.

G. Mathewsii, Hook. Peru.

G. Muelleri, Hook. Australia.

G. multiceps, Hort. See calomelanos.

G. ochracea, Presl. See tartarea, var.

•G. Parsonsii, Moore. See calomelanos.

«G. Pearcei, Moore. Peru, var. robu8ta, Hort.

/:>

Gymnogramme, Desv. cont.

G. peruviana, Desv. See calonielanos.

G. pulchella, Linden. Venezuela. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 74.

var. wettenhalliana, Hort.

var. Mayi, Hort.

G. rufa, Desv. West Indies, Tropical America.

G. schizophylla, Baker. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1682. var. elegantissima, Hort. var. gloriosa, Rodigas. 111. Hort. 1884, t. 522.

G. sulphurea, Desv. West Indies, var. grandiceps, Hort.

G. tartarea, Desv. Tropical America, var. ochracea, Baker. South Brazil.

G. tomentosa, Desv. South America. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 13.

G. triangularis, Kavlf. From Vancouver Island to Ecuador. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 10.

G. Veitchii, Hort. Garden hybrid.

Gymnopteris. See Acrostichum.

Haplopteris. See Vittaria.

Helminthostachys, Kavlf.

H. dulcis, Kaulf. See zeylanica.

H. zeylanica, Hook. India, Malaya, Queensland. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 28.

Hemidictyum. See Asplenium.

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Hemionitis, L.

H. cordata, Roxb. India, Malaya. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 64.

H. palmata, L. West Indies, Tropical America.

Hemitelia, R. Br.

H. capensis, R. Br. South Africa, Brazil.

H. setosa, Mett. Brazil.

H. Smithii, Hook. New Zealand.

H. speciosa, Hook. Colombia. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 66. var. Klotzschii, Hort.

Humata. See Davallia.

Hymen odium. See Acrostichum.

Hymenolepis. See Acrostichum.

Hymenophyllum, J. E. Sm.

H. asplenioides, Sir. West Indies, Tropical America.

H. axillare, *S'?#. "West Indies, Venezuela.

H. capillaceum, Roxb. St. Helena.

H. Catharinae, Hook. West Indies.

H. caudiculatum, Mart. Tropical America, Chili.

H. chiloense, Hook. South Chili and Island of Chiloe.

H. ciliatum, Sw. Tropical Africa and America. Hook. & Grev. lc. Fil. t, 35.

H. crisjjatum, Wall. See javanicum, var.

H. cruentum, Cav. Chili. Hook. Sp. Fil. i. t. 31, fig. A.

79

Hymenophyllum, J. E. Sm. cont.

/H. demissum, Sw. New Zealand, Polynesia, Malaya.

var. nitens, Hort.

H. dilatatum, Sw. New Zealand, Polynesia, Java. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 60.

var. fosterianum, Hort.

H. flabellatum, Ldbill. Australia and New Zealand.

H. Jiexuosum, Cunn. See javanicum. var.

H. foster ianwn, Hort. See dilatatum, var.

H. fucoides, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Ic. PI. t. MX.

H. gracile. Bury. South Africa, Mascarene Islands. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t, 198.

H. hirsutum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical and Temperate South America, Mascarene Islands. Hook. X' Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 84.

H. hirtellum, Sw. West Indies, Mexico.

H. javanicum, Spreng. Tropical Asia, Australia and New Zealand, var. crispatum, ( Wall.) Baker. India, var. flexuosum, (^4. Cunn.) Baker. Australia. tL flexuosum, A. Cunn. ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 962.

var. montanum, Hort. var. tamariscifolium, Hort.

H. lineare, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

var. elegantissima, Hort. H. multifidum, Sw. New Zealand, Polynesia.

H. pectinatum. Cav. Chili and Chiloe.

var. Buperbum, Hort. H. polyanthos, Sw. Tropics, ubiquitous.

var. villosum, (Col.) Baker. New Zealand.

81

Hymenophyllum, J. E. Sin. cord.

H. pulcherrimum, Col. New Zealand.

H. rarum, U. Br. S. Africa, Mascarene Islands, New Zealand.

H. scabrum, .4. Rich. New Zealand. H. sericeum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America. H. subtilissimum, Kze. New Zealand. H. tamar/sri/oliuiit, Hort, See javanicum, var. H. tunbridgense, Sw. Ubiquitous. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 43. var. Wilsoni, Hook. Britain, Norway. H. Wilsoni, Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 44.

H. villosum, Col. See polyanthos, var.

Hypoderris, R. Br.

H. Brownii, J. Sm. Trinidad. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 24.

Hypolepis, Bernh.

H. bergiana, Hook. Tropical and South Africa.

H. millefolia, Hook. New Zealand.

H. purdieana, Hook. Colombia.

H radiata, Hook. See Cheilanthes.

H. repens, Presl. West Indies, Tropical America.

H. tenuifolia, Bernlt. Malaya, Polynesia, Australasia.

Isoloma. See Lindsaya.

Eaulfussia, Bl.

K. aesculifolia, Bl. Assam, Malaya. Hook. & Grew Ic. Fil. t. 229.

S3

Lastrea. See Nephrodium.

L. aristata, Hort. See Aspidium aristatnm.

L. atrovirens, J. Sm. See Nephrodium decomposition.

L. opaca, Hook. See Aspidium varium.

Lepicystis. Sec Polypodium.

Leptochilus. See Acrostichum.

Leptogramme. See Gymnogramme.

Leptopteris. See Todea.

Leucostegia. See Davallia.

Lindsaya, Dry.

L. guianensis, Dry. West Indies, Tropical America. L. linearis, Sw. Australia, New Zealand. L. Lowii, Hort. See Acrostichum sorbitol ium. L. retusa, Mett. Malaya.

L. trapeziformis, Dry. Tropical America, Malaya. \ar. falcata, Baker. West Indies.

Litobrochia. See Pteris.

Llavea, Lag.

L. cordifolia, Lay. Mexico. Bot. Mag. t. 5159.

Lomaria, Willd.

L. alpina, Spreng. South temperate zone. Hook. Fil. Exot, t. 32.

85

Lomaria, Willd cunt.

L. attenuata, Willd. Tropical and South temperate regions.

var. gigantea, (Kaulf.) Baker. South Africa. L. gigantea, Kaulf. ; 111. Hort. 3 876, t. 237.

var. heterophylla, Hort.

L. Banksii, Hook. f. New Zealand.

L. boryana, Willd. Tropical and South temperate regions.

L. capensis, Willd. See procera.

L. ciliata, Moore. New Caledonia. 111. Hort. 1*7(1, t. 252.

L. discolor, Willd. Australia and New Zealand. var. bipinnatifida, Hort. var. nuda, (B. Br.) Baker. Australia.

L. fluviatilis, Spreng. Australia and New Zealand. Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. t. 16.

L. gibba, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. tt. -4-5. New Caledonia. &c. L. neocaledonica, Linden & Fourn. 111. Hort. 1876, t. 251.

var. blechnoides. Hort.

var. tincta, Hort.

L. gigantea, Kaulf. See attenuata.

L. Gilliesii, Hook. & Grew See procera.

L. heterophylla, Hort. See attenuata.

L. lanceolata. Spreng. Australia, New Zealand, Poly- nesia. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 429.

L. L'Herminieri, Bory. West Indies, Tropical America.. Chili. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 40.

L. magellanica, Desv. See boryana.

87

Lomaria, WUld cont.

L. membranacea, Gol. New Zealand. Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. t. 14f>.

L. minor, R. Br. See procera.

L. neocaledonica, Linden & Poarn. See gibba.

L. nipponica, Kunze. Japan.

L. Patersonii. Spreng. Australia. Hook. Fil. Fxot. t. 49.

L. procera, Spreng. Southern Hemisphere. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 53.

L. punctulata, Kze. South Africa. Scolopendrium Krehsii, Kze ; Bot. Mag. t. 4768.

var. blechnoidea, Baker. South Africa.

L. Spicant, Desv. North temperate zone. Blechnum boreale, Sw. : Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 40.

var. imbricata, Hort. L. tuberculata, J. Sm. See procera. L. zamicefolia, Hort. See boryana. L. zamoides, Gardn. See boryana.

Lornariopsis. See Acrostichum.

L. lux/folium, Fee. See A. Borbifolium, •var. buxi- folium.

Lonchitis, L.

L. pubescens, WUld. Tropics.

var. mollissima, Hort. Tropical Africa. Conpieris brazziana, Linden.

Lopholepis. See tolypodium.

Lophosoria. See Alsophiia.

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.

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Lorinseria. See Woodwardia.

Lotzea. See Asplenium.

Loxoscaphe. See Davallia.

Lygodictyon. See Lygodium.

L. Foster!, J. Sm. See Lygodium reticulatum.

Lygodium, Sw.

L. circinatum, Sw. See dichotomum.

L. dichotomum, Sw. Tropical Asia. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 55.

L. japonicum, Sw. Tropics of the Old World.

L. palmatum, Sw. United States. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 24.

L. reticulatum, Schkuhr. Polynesia, East Tropical Australia.

L. scandens, Sw. Tropics of the Old World, var. microphyllum, (B. Br.) Baker. Australia.

L. volubile, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

Marattia, J. E. Sm.

M. alata, J. E. Sm. West Indies, Central America.

M. attenuata, Labill. New Caledonia. 111. Hort, 1876, t, 246.

M. Ascensiunis, J. Sm. See fraxinea, var. purpurascens.

M. Burkei, Baker. Colombia. Gard. Chron. 1<S'.)7, xxii. 425, fig. 129.

M. Cooperi, Hort. See attenuata.

M. cristata, J. Sm. See fraxinea, var. purpurascens.

91

Marattia, J. E. Sm. cont.

M. elegans, Endl. See fraxinea.

M. fraxinea, J. E. Sm. Tropics aud sab-tropics of the Old World. Bedd. Handb. Ferns Ind. 461.

var. purpurascens, (De Vriese) Baker. Ascension Island.

M. Kaulfussii, J. Sm. West Indies, Tropical America.

M. laxa, Kze. Mexico.

M. Moorei, Hort. See attenuata.

.1/. sorbifolia, Bory. See fraxinea.

Meniscium, Schreb.

M. deltigerum, Wall. See Acrostichuin virens.

M. reticulatum, Schkuhr. West Indies, Tropical America var. macrophyllum, Baker. Brazil.

M. serratum, Cav. West Indies, Tropical America.

M. simplex, Hook. Tropical and sub-tropical Asia. Hook. Pil. Exot, t. 73.

Mertensia. See Gleichenia.

Mesochlaena. See Didymochlsena.

Microlepia. See Davallia.

Microsorium. See Polypodium.

Mohria, Sw.

M. Caffrorum, Desr. South Africa, var. achillesefolia, Hurl.

M. thurifraga, Sw See Caffrorum.

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93 Myriopteris. See Cheilanthes.

Neottopteris. See Asplenium.

Nephrodium, L. 0. Rich.

N. acrostichoides, Michx. See Aspidium.

N. ajffine, Lowe. See Filix-Mas.

N. albopunctatum, Desv. Tropical and South Africa, Mascarene Islands, Fiji. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 89.

N. areolatum, Hort. See Woodwardia areolata.

.V. atratum, Wall. See hirtipes.

-V. Blumei, Hook. See intermedium.

N. canum, Baker. Himalaya.

N. chrysolobum, FSe. Brazil and Colombia.

N. cicutarium, Baker. Tropics, ubiquitous. Aspidium coadunatum, Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 202.

N. cochleatum, D. Don. See Filix-mas, var.

N. confiuens, F. Muell. Queensland.

N. conterminum, Desv. West Indies, Tropical America.

-V. coruscum, Hort. See Aspidium varium.

N. crinitum, Desv. Mascarene Islands. Poll/podium crinitum, Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 66.

N. cristatum. Michx. Europe, North America. Honk. Brit, Ferns, t. 17.

var. clintonianum, Hort.

var. uliginosum, Baker.

N. cuspidatum, Baker. Northern India, Yunnan. Lastrea cuspidata, Bedd. Handb. Ferns Ind. 232.

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Nephrodium, L. C. Rich.—cont.

N. decompositum, R. Br. Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia.

var. glabellum, linker. Australia, New Zealand.

var. Shepherdi, (Kze) Baker. Australia, New Zealand

N. decurrens. Baker. Tropical Asia. var. Thwaitesii, J. Sm. Ceylon.

N. decursivopinnatum, Baker. China and Japan.

N. dilatatum, Desv. See spinulosnm, var.

N. dissectum, Desv. Tropics of the Old World, var. membranifolium, (Presl) Baker. Malaya.

N. effusum, Baker. West Indies, Tropical America, var. divergens, Baker.

N. erythrosorum. Hook. China, Japan. Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. t. 253.

N.* Filix-mas, L. C. Rich. Temperate regions, ubiqui- tous. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 15.

var. cochleatum, Hook. India.

N. fragrans, Ricliardson. North Asia, North America.

N. glabellum, A. Cunn. See decompositum.

N. goldieanum, Hook. North America. Hook. & Grew Ic. Fil. t. 102.

N. Grisebachii, Baker. Cuba.

N. hirtipes, Hook. Tropical Asia. Laslrea hirtipes, Bedd. Handb. Ferns Ind. 233.

N. hispidum, Hook. Australia, New Zealand.

N. intermedium, Baker. Tropical Asia.

N. Jenmani, Baker. Jamaica.

For parden varieties, sec p. 175.

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Nephrodium, L. C. Rich.—cont.

N. lacerum, Baker. Japan.

N. latifoliura, Baker. Polynesia.

N. lepidum, Moore. Polynesia.

N. leuzeanum, Hook. Tropical Asia, Polynesia. Pleo- cncmia leuzeana, Presl ; Gard. Chron. 1874, ii. 355, %. 74.

N. macrophyllum, Baker. West Indies Tropical America.

var. calvatum, Hort.

N. marginale, Michx. North America.

N. Maximowiczii, Baker. China.

N. membranifolium, Presl. See dissectum.

N. molle, Desu. Ubiquitous in warm countries, var. polydactylon, Hort. Tropics.

N. montanum, Baker. Europe, North America. A7. Oreopteris, Desv. ; Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 14.

N. nevadense, Baker. California.

N. noveboracense, Desv. North America.

N. Oreopteris, Desv. See montanum.

N. patens, Desv. Tropics and slightly beyond.

N. patulum, Baker. West Indies, Tropical America.

N. polymorphum, Baker. India, Malaya.

N. prolificum, Maxim. See erythrosorum.

N. recedens, Hook. Philippines, India, Ceylon.

N. Richardsi, Baker. . New Caledonia, var. multifidum, Hort. 23941 D

99 Nephrodium, L. C. Rich.—cont.

N. rigidum, Desv. North temperate zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 16.

var. americanum, Hook. North America.

N. sanctum, Baker. West Indies, Guatemala.

N. scabrosum, Baker. Nilgherries. Lastrea scabrosa, Bedd. Hand. Ferns Ind. 263.

N. setigerum. Baker. Japan, Tropical Asia, Polynesia, var. cristatum, Hort.

N. Sieboldii, Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 31. Japan.

N. Sloanei, Baker. West Indies, Tropical America.

N. *spinulosum, Desv. North temperate zone.

var. Boottii, Baker. United States.

var. dilatatum, Hook. Europe. Hook. Brit. Ferns, 1. 19.

N. subbiauritum, Hook. Madagascar.

N. subtriphyllum, Baker. Tropical Asia, Polynesia, Mascarene Is.

N. tenericaule, Hook. See setigerum.

N. Thelypteris, Desv. North and South temperate zones. Hook. Brit, Ferns, t. 13.

N. trichophorum, Baker. Guadeloupe.

N. truncatum, Presl. India, Malaya, Polynesia, Australia.

N. unitum, B. Br. Tropical and subtropical regions.

N. variolosum, Baker. India, Malaya.

N. villosum, Presl. West Indies, Tropical America.

Nephrolepis, Schott.

N. acuta, PresU Tropics, ubiquitous.

s For garden varieties, see p. 1 79. 23'Ul D2

L01

Nephrolepis, Schott cant.

N. Bausei, Hurt. Garden origin.

N. biserrata, Schott. See acuta.

N. bostoniensis, Hurt. Garden origin.

N. cordifolia, Baker. Tropics, ubiquitous. Bedd. Handb. Ferns Ind. 283.

var. compacta, Hart.

var. crispato-congesta, Hort.

var. edmontoniensis, Hort.

var. pectinata, Baker. Tropical America.

var. philippinensis, Hort. Philippines.

N. davallioides, Kze. Java. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 60. var. furcans, Hort. var. multiceps, Hort.

N. Duffii, Moore. Australia. Gard. Chron. 1878, ix. 623, fig. 113.

N. ensifolia, Presl. See acuta.

N. exaltata, Schott. Tropics, ubiquitous. Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t. 93.

var. Barteri, Hort. West Tropical Africa.

var. hirsutula, Baker. Malaya, Tropical Australia.

N. Faulkneri, Hort. Garden origin.

N. floccigera, Hort. Garden origin.

N. Fosteri, Hort. Garden origin.

N. Hestoni, Hort. Garden origin.

N.pectinata, Schott. See cordifolia, var.

N. philippinensis, Hort. See cordifolia, var.

N. Pluma, Moore. Madagascar. Gard. Chron. 1878,

ix. 58(.», fig. 108.

103

Nephrolepis, Schott cunt. N. ramosa, Moore. Tropics of the Old World. N. recurvata, Hort. See exaltata.

N. rufescens, Presl. Tropics.

var. Mayi, Hort.

var. tripinnatifida, Baker. Solomon Islands. N. tuberosa, Presl. See cordifolia. N. unduhita, J. Sm. See cordifolia. N. Westoni, Hort. Garden origin. N. Wittboldi, Hort. Garden origin.

Neurocallis. See Acrostichum.

Niphobolus. See Polypodium.

Niphopsis. See Polypodium.

Nothochlaena. See Notholama.

Notholsena, B. Br.

N. distans, B. Br. Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia.

N. eckloniana, Kze. South Africa.

N. ferruginea, Hook. West Indies, Tropical America.

N. Havens, Moore. Central America. Gymnogramme flavens, Sw. ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 47.

N. Hooker i, Lowe. See nivea.

A. Icevis, Martens & Gal. See sinuata.

N. lanuginosa, Desv. S. Europe, Atlantic Islands. Australia.

N. Marantae, R. Br. S. Europe. X. Africa, temp. Asia.

105

Notholsena, R. Br. cont,

N. rufa, Presl. See ferruginea.

N. sinuata, Kaulf. Tropical America.

N. trichomanoides, R. Br. Jamaica, Cuba.

Odontosoria. See Davallia.

Oleandra, Cav.

0. articulata, Cav. Tropical and S. Africa, Mascarene Islands.

0. nodosa, Presl. West Indies, Tropical America.

Olfersia. See Acrostichmn.

Onoclea, L.

0. germanica, Willd. North temperate zone.

O. pennsylvanica, Willd. See germanica.

0. sensibilis, L. Northern Asia, North America.

Onychium, Kaulf.

0. japonicum, Kze. Japan, Himalaya. O. lucidum, Spreng. See japonicum.

Ophioglossum, L.

0. vulgatum, L. Ubiquitous in cold and temperate regions. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 46.

Osmunda, L.

0. bipinnata, Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 9. Hong Kong.

0. cinnamomea, L. North and Central America, West Indies, Northern Asia. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 45.

107

Osmunda, L. cont.

0. claytoniana, L. North America, Himalaya.

O. int&rrupta, Michx. See claytoniana.

O. japonica, Thunb. See regalis.

0. javanica, Bl. From Kamschatka to Java.

0. ::=regalis, L. North and South temp, regions. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 45.

var. japonica, Milde. Japan. O. spectabilis, Willd. See regalis.

Paesia. See Pteris.

Paragramma. See Polypodium.

Parkeria. See Cei*atopteris.

Pellaea, Link.

P. adiantifolia, Hort. See hastata.

P. atropurpurea, Link. North and Central America. Lowe, Ferns, iii. t. 30.

P. cordata, J. Sm. Mexico, Western South America. Allosorus cordatus, Presl ; Bot. Mag. t. 4698.

var. flexuosa, Baker. Western South America. Allosorus Jlexuosus, Kaulf. ; Bot. Mag. t. 4762.

P. densa, Hook. North America.

P. falcata, Fee. Tropical Asia and Australia.

P. geraniifolia. Fee. Tropics. Pteris geranii/olia, Radcli ; Hook. Ic. PL t. 915.

P. gracilis, Hook. Northern Asia, North America.

P. hastata, Link. Tropical and South Africa. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 50.

* For garden varieties, xee p. 170.

109

Pellaea, Link—cont.

P. intramarginalis, ./. Sm. Central America.

P. involuta, Baker. East Tropical Africa.

P. mucronata, Eaton. California, New Mexico.

P. rotundifolia, Hook. New Zealand, Norfolk Island. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 48.

P. viridis, Forsk. See hastata.

P. wrightiana, Hook. See mucronata.

Phegopteris. See Polypodium. P. trichodes, J. Sm. See Nephrodium setigerum.

Phlebodium. See Polypodium. P. incequale, Moore. See Polypodium guatemalense.

Phymatodes. See Polypodium.

P. vulgaris, Presl. See Polypodium Phymatodes.

Platycerium, Desv.

P. gethiopicum, Hook. Tropical Africa. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 9.

P. alcicorne, Desv. Australia. Bot. Reg. tt. 2G2-3.

var. Hillii, Bailey. Queensland. P. Hillii, Moore, Gard. Chron. 1878, x. 428, figs. 74-5.

P. angolense, Welw. Tropical Africa.

P. biforme, Bl. Malaya. Bedd. Ferns Brit. Ind. tt, 109, 224.

P. grande, J. Sm. Tropical Asia, North Australia. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 86.

P. madagascariense, Baker. Madagascar.

Ill

Platycerium, Desv. cont.

P. Stemmaria, P. Beauv. See setkiopicum.

P. Veitchii, Hort. Garden origin.

P. Wallichii, Hook. Malay Peninsula. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 97.

P. Willinckii, Moore. Java. Gard. Ckron. 1875, iii. 303, fig. 56.

Platyloma. See Pellgea.

Pleocnemia. See Nepkrodium.

Pleopeltis. See Polypodiurn.

Pleuridium. See Polypodiurn.

Poecilopteris. See Acrostickum.

Polybotrya. See Acrostickum.

Polypodiurn, L.

P. adnascens, Sw. Tropical Asia and Africa. Nipho- bolus adnascens, Kaulf. ; Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 19.

P. albopunctatissinmm, Linden. See crassifolium, var.

P. albosquamatum, BL Malaya. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 17.

P. alpestre, Hoppe. Nortk temperate zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 6.

var. flexile, Moore. Scotland. P. americanum, Hook. Andes of Ecuador. P. amphostemon, Kze. See angustifolium.

113

Polypodium, L. cont.

P. angulatum, Willd. Malay Islands.

P. angustatum, Sw. Malay Peninsula and Islands. Australia. Niphobolus angustatus, Spreng. ; Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 20.

P. angustifolium, Sw . West Indies, Tropical America.

P. appendiculatum, Wall. India. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 87.

P. areolatum, H. B. & K. See aureum, var.

P. attenuatum, H. B. & K. West Indies, Tropical America.

P. aureum, L. West Indies, Tropical America, var. areolatum, Baker. Brazil, var. glaucum, Hort. var. Mayi, Hort. var. pulvinatum, Baker. var. sporodocarpum, ( Willd.) Baker.

P. Billardieri, B. Br. Australia and New Zealand.

P. brevijohxitn, Link. See Phyllitidis, var. linnseanum.

P. calcareum, J. E. Sm. See Dryopteris, var. robertia- num.

P. camuricum, L. See vulgare, var.

P. cameroonianum, Hook. Cameroon Mountains.

P. Catharines, J. 8m. See loriceum.

P. chnoodes, Spreng. West Indies, Venezuela.

P. colpodes, Kze. See plesiosorum.

P. conjugatum, Lam. Tropical Asia. P. coronans, Wall. ; Hook. Fil. Exot. 91.

P. contiguum, Wall. See longifolium.

115

Polypodium, L. cont.

P. coronans, Wall. See conjugatum.

P. crassifolium, L. West Indies, Tropical America, var. albopunctatissimum, (J. Sm.) Baker. Brazil.

P. cuspidatum, Bl. See persicasfolium.

P. decurrens, Raddi. Tropical America.

P. dissimile, Hook. See chnoodes.

P. distans, Raddi. See fraxinifolium.

P. divergens, Willd. See Nephrodium effusum, var.

P. diversifolium, Sic. Tropical America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 5.

P. Dryopteris, L. North temperate zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 4.

var. robertianum, Buprecht. P. roberti anion, Hoffm. ; Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 5.

P. effusum, Sw. See Nephrodium.

P. elasticum, L. C. Rich. Tropical America.

P. ensijhlium, Willd. See angustifolium.

P. falcatum, Kellogg. California.

P. Fendleri, Eaton. Venezuela, Colombia.

P. fossum, Baker. Garden origin.

P. fraxinifolium, Jacq. Tropical America. Jacq. Ic.

P. glaucophyllum, Kzc. West Indies, Tropical America. West Africa. Goniophlebium glaucophyllum, J. Sm. ; Gard. Chron. 1874, ii. 7, fig. 1.

var. glabrum, Moore.

var. viride, Hurt.

P. grande, Presl. See macropterum, var. splendidum.

117

Polypodium, L. cont.

P. guatemalense, Honk. Central America.

P. Tiarpeodes, Link. See loriceum.

P. hastatum, Thunb. Japan.

P. hemionitideum, Wall. North India, South China.

P. Heracleum, Kze. Java, Philippines. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 1.

P. hexagonopterum, Michx. North America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 210.

P. hirsutum, Sw. Brazil.

P. hydrophilum, Kze. Dominica.

P. incanum, Sw. Tropical and South Africa, America from Ohio southwards.

P. incurvatum, BL Malay Peninsula.

P. irioides. Lam. Tropics and subtropics of the Old World. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 4.

var. ramocristatum, Hart.

P. juglandifolium, D. Dun. Himalaya, var. tenuicauda, Baker.

P. karii'inskianum, A. Br. See plebeium.

P. Knightise, Hart. Australia. Gard. Chron. 1903, xxxiii. 245, fig. 99.

P. lachnopus, Wall. Northern India.

P. laevigatum, Cav. Tropical America.

P. lanceolatum, L. Tropics.

P. lapathifolium, Poir. See laevigatum.

P. leiorhizon, Wall. India, China. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 25.

119

Polypodium, L. cont.

P. lepidopteris, Kze. Tropical America, var. sepultum, Baker. Tropical America.

P. lineare, Thunb. Tropical and subtropical Asia, Tropical and subtropical Africa.

P. Lingua, Sw. Manchuria to Malaya, var. corymbiferum, Hart. var. Heteractis, Baker. Himalaya.

P. longifolium, Mett. Malaya. P. contiguum, Wall. ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 20.

P. longipes, Link. See Phymatodes, var.

P. longissimum, Bl. Tropical Asia.

P. loriceum, L. West Indies, Tropical America.

var. hirsutum, Hart.

var. latipes, Baker. Brazil.

var. pinnatifidum, Baker. P. lycopodioides, L. Tropics, ubiquitous.

var. maximum, Hort.

var. owariense, (Desr.) Baker. Tropical Africa.

var. salicifolium, Hook. Tropical America.

var. squamulosum, Baker. South Brazil. P. macropterum, Kaulf. Brazil.

var. splendidum, Baker. South Brazil.

P. macrourum, Baker. Australia.

P. meniscii/olium, Langsd. & Fisch. See neriifolium.

P. meyenianum, Schott. Philippines.

P. multilineatum, Wall. Northern India.

P. musaefolium, Bl. Malaya.

P. neriifolium, Schkuhr. West Indies, Tropical America, var. albopunctatum, (Raddi). Tropical America.

12t

Polypodium, L. cont.

P. nigrescens, Bl. India, Malaya, Polynesia. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 22.

var. grandiceps, Hurt.

P. oicariense, Desv. See lycopodioides.

P. palmatum, Bl. Malaya.

P. pectinatum, L. West Indies, Tropical America- Hook. Gard. Ferns, t, 10.

var. Paradisae, Baker. Brazil,

var. plumosum, Hart.

P. peltideum, Link. See Phymatodes.

P. pendulum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

P. pennigerum, Forst. New Zealand.

P. percussum, Cav. Tropical America. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 59.

P. persicsefolium, Desv. Malaya, var. grandidens, Kze. Java.

P. *Phegopteris, L. North temperate zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t; 3.

P. Phyllitidis, L. West Indies, Tropical America, var. linnaeanum, Hook. var. obscurum, (Mett.) Baker.

P. Phymatodes, L. Tropical Asia and Africa, var. cristatum, Hort. var. longipes, {Link) Baker. var. terminale, {Link) Baker.

P. pictum, Baker. Polynesia.

P. piloselloides, L. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 18.

* For garden varieties, see p. 181.

123

Polypodium, L. cont.

P. platyphyllum, Hook. West Indies, Tropical America.

P. plebeium, Schlecht. Central and South America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 48.

var. madrense, (J. Sm.). Central America. P. plesiosorum. Kze. Mexico to Venezuela. P. Plumula, H. B. & K. See elasticum. P. presUanum, Link. See neriifolium.

P. propinquum, Wall. China, India, Java.

var. Laurentii, Christ. Tropical Africa. DeWildem. Etudes Fl. Bas-Congo, 6, t. 2.

P. pulvinatum, Link. See aureum, var.

P. pustulatum, Forst. Australia and New Zealand.

P. quercifolium. L. Tropical Asia, Queensland.

P. repens, L. "West Indies, Tropical America, var. undulatum, Hort.

P. reptans, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

P. rigidulum, Sw. Malaya, Fiji, Queensland.

P. robertianum, Hoffm. See Dryopteris, var.

P. rostratum, Hook. Northern India.

P. rupestre, Bl. Malaya.

P. Schneideri, Hort. Garden hybrid. Journ. Hort. ser. 3, xxix. 85, fig. 13.

P. Scouleri, Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 56. N. W. America.

P. sepultum, Kaulf. See lepidopteris, var.

P. serrulatum, Melt. Tropical Africa and America. Xiphopteris serrulata, Kaulf. ; Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 44.

125

Polypodium, L. cont.

P. simplex, Sw. See lineare.

P. sparsiflorum, Hook. West Tropical Africa.

P. sphcerocephalum, Wall. See angustatum.

P. sporodocarpum, Willd. See aureum, var.

P. squamulosum, Kaulf. See lycopodioides.

P. stigmaticum, Presl. Colombia.

P. stigmosum, Sw. India, Malaya.

P. subauriculatum, Bl. India, Malaya, Polynesia, Queensland.

P. superficiale, Bl. China, India.

P. tceniosum, Hort. See angustifolium.

P. taxifolium, L. West Indies, Tropical America.

P. tenuicauda. Hook. See juglandifolium, var.

P. terminate, Link. See Phymatodes, var.

P. tetragonum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America.

P. tricuspe, Sw. Japan.

P. vacciniifolium, Langsd. & Fisch. West Indies, Tropical America.

var. album, Hort.

P. vacillans, Link. See loriceuin.

P. venosum, Desv. See stigmaticum.

P. verrucosum, Wall. Malaya. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 41.

P. ::vulgare, L. North temperate zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 2.

P. Willdenovii, Bory. Tropical Africa, Mascarene Islands. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 35.

For garden varieties, see p. 181.

127

Polypodium, L. cont.

P. Xiphias, Baker. Southern Polynesia.

Polystichum. See Aspidium.

Prosaptia. See Davallia.

Pseudathyrium. See Polypodium.

Pteridella. See Pelleea.

P. viridis, Mett. See Pellaea hastata.

Pteris, L.

P. aquilina, L. Cosmopolitan. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 3<S.

P. arguta, Ait. South Europe, Azores &c.

P. albolineata, Hort. See cretica, var.

P. argyrcea, Moore. See quadriaurita, var.

P. Bausei, Hort. See semipinnata, var.

P. biaurita, L. Tropics. Hook. & Grew Ic. Fil. t. 142. var. argentea, Hort. var. nemoralis variegata, Hort.

P. Childsii, Hart. Garden origin.

P. crennta, Sw. See ensiformis.

P. cretica, L. Tropical and subtropical regions, var. albolineata, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5194. var. Alexandra?, Hort. var. crispata, Hort. var. Maissonieri, Hort. var. major, Hort. var. Mayi, Hort. var. nobilis, Hort. var. Wimsetti, Hort.

129

Pteris, L. cont.

P. denticulata. Sw. West Indies, Tropical A.merica. Hook. & Grev. Ic. ML t. 28.

P. Drinkivateri, Hort. See pellucida.

P. droogmansiana, De Wild. Belgian Congo.

P. Duvalii, (Bellair). Garden hybrid. Dryopteris Duvalii, Bellair. Rev. Hort, 1897, 563, fig. 168.

P. elata, Ag. Tropical America, var. karsteniana, Hort.

P. ensiformis, Burm. Tropical Asia and Australia, Polynesia.

var. cristata, Hort.

var. Reginae, Hort.

var. Victoria?, Hort.

P. felosma, J. 8m. See quadriaurita.

P. flabellata, Thunb. Tropical and South Africa.

P. geraniifolia, Raddi. See Pellaea.

P. Ghiesbreghtii, J. Sm. See laciniata.

P. grevilleana, Wall. Northern India, var. variegata, Hort.

P. heterophylla, L. West Indies. Bot, Mag. t. 4925. var. internata, Baker. West Indies.

P. incisa, Thunb. Tropical and subtropical regions, var. Vespertilionis, (Labill.). Australia.

P. internata, Moore. See heterophylla, var.

P. laciniata, Willd. West Indies, Tropical America, var. G-hiesbreghtii, Baker. Mexico.

P. leptophylla, Sw. Brazil. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 23. var. argentea, Hort.

23941 E

131

Pteris, L. cont.

P. longifolia, L. Tropical and subtropical regions, var. Mariesii, Hort. Japan.

P. ludens, Wall. India, Malaya. Doryopteris ludtns, Bedd. Handb. Ferns Ind. 119.

P. Maissonieri, Hort. See cretica, var.

P. moluccana, Bl, Malaya.

P. nemoralis, Willd. See biaurita, var.

P. nobilis, Hort. See palmata, var.

P. palmata, Willd. West Indies, Tropical America. ' Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 22.

var. nobilis, Hort.

P. pedata, L. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Fil. Exot. t, 34.

P. pellucida, Pi^esl. India, Malaya, Tropical Africa.

P. pulchra, Schl. Mexico.

P. pungens, Willd. West Indies.

P. quadriaurita, Rets. Tropics, ubiquitous. Bot. Mag. t, 5183.

var. argyraea, {Moore) Baker.

var. rubricaulis, (J. Sm.) Baker.

var. tricolor, Hort.

P. sagittifolia, Raddi. Brazil. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 39.

P. scaberula, A. Rich. New Zealand.

P. semipinnata, L. Tropical and Sub-tropical Asia. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 59.

var. Bausei, Hort.

var. gigantea, Hort.

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133

Pteris, L. cont.

P. serrulata, L. fil. China, Japan, Natal. var. cristata, Hort. var. voluta, Hort.

P. straminea, Mett. Chili.

P. sulcata, Link. See quadriaurita.

P. tremula, E. Br. Australia and New Zealand.

P. Vespertilionis, Labill, See inciaa, var.

P. Victoria?, Hort. See ensiformis, var

P. viridis, Forsk. See Pellaea hastata.

P. wallichiana, Ag. Himalaya, Japan, Philippines.

Pteropsis. See Tgenitis.

Pycnopteris. See Nephrodium.

Rhipidopteris. See Acrostichum.

Sagenia. See Nephrodium.

Salpichlasna. See Blechnum.

Schellolepis. See Polypodium.

Schizocaena. See Cyathea.

Schizoloma. See Lindsaya.

Scolopendrium, J. E. Sm.

S. braziliense, Kze. Brazil.

S. Delavayi, Franch. China, Munipur. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. t. 41.

I

135

Scolopendrium, J. E. Sm. cont.

S. Krebsii, Kze. See Lomaria punctulata.

S. rhizophyllum, Hook. North America. Camptosorus rhisophylhis, Presl ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 85.

S.*vulgare, ./. E. Sm. North temperate zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t, 37.

Selliguea. See Gymnogramme. Sitolobium. See Dicksonia. Soromanes. See Acrostichum Caenopteris. Stegania. See Lomaria. Stenochlaena. See Acrostichum. Stenoloma. See Davallia. Stenosemia. See Acrostichum. Struthiopteris. See Onoclea. Taeniopsis. See Vittaria.

Thyrsopteris, Kze.

T. elegans, Kze. Juan Fernandez.

Todea, Willi.

T. africana, Willd. See barbara.

T. barbara, Moore. South Africa, Australia. New Zealand. Bot. Mag. t. 5954.

* For garden varieties, nee p. 181.

137

Todea, Willd cont.

T. Fraseri, Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 101. Australia, New Caledonia.

var. wilkesiana, Baker. Fiji, New Hebrides, New Guinea. T. ivilkesiana, Brackenr. ; 111. Hort. 1875, t. 226.

T. grand ipinnula, Moore. See Moorei.

T. hymenophylloides, Etch. & Loss. New Zealand. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 54.

T. intermedia, Hort. See hymenophylloides.

T. Moorei, Baker. Lord Howe Island.

T. pellucida, Carm.' See hymenophylloides.

T. rivularis, Sieb. See barbara.

T. superba, Col. New Zealand. 111. Hort. 1870, t. 23.

T. wilkesiana, Brackenr. See Fraseri, var.

Trichomanes, L.

T. alatum, Siv. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 11.

var. attenuatum, Griseb. West Indies.

T. angustatum, Carm. See tenerum.

T. attenuatum, Hook. See alatum, var.

T. auriculatum, Bl. Tropical Asia.

T. Bancroftii, Hook. & Grev. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Gard. E'erns, t. 56.

T. bipunctatum, Poir. See Filicula.

T. Bojeri, Hook. & Grev. See cuspidatum.

T. boschianum, Sturm. See radicans, var.

T. Colensoi, Hook. f. New Zealand. Hook. Ic. PI.

t. 979.

139

Trichomanes, L.—cont.

T. crispum, L. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 27.

T. cuspidatum, Willd. Mascarene Islands.

T. elongatum, Cunn. See rigidum, var.

T. exsectum, Kze. Chili, Juan Fernandez.

T. Filicula, Bory. Tropical Asia and Africa.

T. fceniculaceum, Bory. Mascarene Is., Borneo, Australia.

T. hirtellum, Poir. See Hynienophyllum.

T. humile, Forst. Java, New Zealand, Polynesia. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 85.

T. Kaulfussii, Hook & Grev. West Indies, Tropical America.

T. labiatum, Jenm. British Guiana.

T. luschnathianum, Presl. See radicans, var.

T. Lyallii. Hook. New Zealand.

T. maximum, Bl. Malaya, Polynesia, N. Australia.

T. membranaceum, L. West Indies, Tropical America.

T. muscoides, Sw. Tropics.

T. panujlorum, Poir. See fceniculaceum.

T. parvulum, Poir. Tropics of the Old World.

T. pinnatum, Sw . West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 8.

T. Prieurii, Kze. West Indies, Tropical America.

T. pyxidiferum, L. Tropics, ubiquitous. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 206.

T. radicans, Sw. Tropical, subtropical and temperate regions.

var. Andrewsii, Newm. Ireland.

141

Trichomanes, L. co)d. T. radicans, Sw. cant. var. boschianum, {Sturm) Baker. Alabama, var. luschnathianum, Baker. Brazil, var. luschnathianum prolongatum, Hort. var. proliferum, Hort.

T. reniforme, Forst. New Zealand. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 2.

T. reptans, Siv. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 32.

T. rigidum, Sw. Tropics, ubiquitous, var. elongatum, Baker. New Zealand.

T. scandens, L. West Indies, Central America.

T. sinuosum, L. C. Rich. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 13.

T. 8picatum, Hedw. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 60.

T. tenerum, Spreng. Tropical America.

T. trichoideum, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 199.

T. venosum, R. Br. Australia and New Zealand.

Vittaria, J. E. Sm.

V. lineata, Sw. Tropical and subtropical regions.

Woodsia, R. Br.

W. ilvensis, R. Br. Arctic and North temperate zone. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 8.

W. oregana, D. C. Eaton. North America.

W. scopulina, D. C. Eaton. North America.

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Woodwardia, /. E. Sm.

W. angustifolia, J. E. Sm. See areolata.

W. areolata, Moore. United States. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 61.

W. Harlandii, Hook. Hong Kong. Hook. Fii. Exot. t. 7.

W. japonica, Sw. China and Japan.

W. radicans, Sw. North temperate zone.

var. americana, Hook. Southern United States.

var. Brownii, Hort.

var. cristata, Hort. See var. Brownii.

var. plumosa, Hort.

W. virginica, J. E. Stn. North America. Xiphopteris. See Polypodium.

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II.-FERN ALLIES.

Azolla, Lam.

A. caroliniana, Willd. Tropical and subtropical America.

A. pinnata, M. Br. Australia. Bernhardia. See Psilotum.

Equisetum, L.

E. arvense, L. North temperate and Arctic regions. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 60.

E. fluviatile, L. See limosum.

E. hyemale, L. North temperate and Arctic regions. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 64.

E. limosum, L. North temperate and Arctic regions. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 62.

E. maximum, Lam. North temperate regions.

E. ramosissimum, Desf. Warm temperate and tropical regions.

E. robustum, A. Br. North and central America.

E. scirpoides, Michx. North temperate and Arctic regions.

Isoetes, L.

I. lacustris, L. Europe and North America. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 55.

I. malivernianum, Cesati & De Not. Italy.

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Lycopodium, L.

L. carinatum, Desv. India, Malaya, Polynesia. L. acrostachytnn, Wall. ; Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 181.

L. clavatum, L. Arctic and Alpine zones ; on moun- tains in the tropics.

L. dalhousieanum, Spring. Malay Peninsula, Borneo.

L. dichotomum, Jacq. West Indies, Tropical America.

L. fontinaloides, Spring. Brazil.

L. Hippuris, Desv. See squarrosum.

L. Hookeri, Wall. See squarrosum.

L. lucidulum, Michx. Himalaya, China, Japan, North America.

L. obscurum, L. North Asia, North America.

*

L. Phlegmaria, L. Tropics of the Old World.

L. scariosum, Forst. New Zealand.

L. squarrosum, Forst. India, Malaya, Polynesia. Masca- rene Is. L. Hookeri, Wall. ; Hook. & Grev. 1c. Fil. 1. 185.

L. taxifolium, Sw. West Indies, Tropical America. Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 131.

Marsilea, L.

M. macra, A. Br. Australia. M. Nardu, A. Br. Australia.

Pilularia, L.

P. globulifera, L. Europe. Hook. Brit. Ferns, t. 57.

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Psilotum, Sw.

P. triquetrum, Sw. Tropics, extending to New Zealand, Japan, and Florida. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 63.

var. mascarenica, Hort.

Salvinia, Schreb.

S. natans, Hoffm. Subtropics of the Old World.

Selaginella, Spring.

S. africana, A. Br. See Vogelii.

S. albonitens, Spring. West Indies.

S. albosjrica, Hort. See stenophylla, var.

S. amoena, Hort. See caulescens.

S. apus, Spring. North America, var. elegans, Hort.

S. argentea, Spring. See caulescens, var.

S. atroviridis, Spring. Tropical Asia. Lycopodium atroviride, Wall. ; Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 39.

S. bakeriana, Baileg. Queensland.

S. bellula, Moore. See inaequalifolia, var. perelegans.

S. Braunii, Baker. China.

S. ccesia, Hort. See uncinata.

S. canaliculata, Baker. Tropical Asia.

S. caudata, Spring. See canaliculata.

S. caulescens, Spring. Tropical Asia, var. amoena, Hort.

var. argentea, Baker. Malay Peninsula, var. japonica, MacNab. Japan, var. minor, Hort.

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Selaginella, Spring cont.

S. concinna, Spring. Mascarene Islands.

S. con/erta, Moore. See canaliculata.

S. cuspidata, Link. West Indies, Tropical America, var. elongata, Spring. Guatemala.

S. delicatissima, A. Br. Andes.

S. densa, Hort. See apus.

S. denticulata, Hort. See kraussiana.

S. dichroa, Hort. See Vogelii.

S. Douglasii, Spring. North America.

S. emiliana, Hort.

S. erythropus, Spring. West Indies, Tropical America.

var. minor, Hort.

var. setosa, Hort.

S. Jilicina, Spring. See haeniatodes.

S. flabellata, Spring. Tropical and subtropical regions.

£'. flagellifera, Hort. See plumosa, var.

S. Galeottii, Spring. Central America.

S. geniculata, Spring. Tropical America.

S. grandis, Moore. Borneo. Gard. Chron. 1882, xviii. 40, figs. 7-8.

S. hsematodes, Spring. West Indies, Tropical America.

S. helvetica, Link. Europe, North Asia.

S. inaequalifolia, Spring. Tropical Asia.

var. perelegans, Baker. Tropical Asia. S. bet lulu, Moore, Gard. Chron. 1879, xi. 173, fig. 25.

S. involvens, Spring. China, Japan, E. Himalaya. Philippine Is.

var. texta, Baker.

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Selagiuella, Spring cont.

S. kraussiana, .4. Br. South Africa, W. Tropical Africa. Azores.

var. aurea, Hort.

var. Brownii, Hort.

var. Stansfieldii, Hurt.

S. laevigata, Baker. Madagascar, var. Lyallii, Baker. Madagascar.

S. lepidophylla, Spring. Tropical America. S. leptostachya, Bailey. See bakeriana. S. Lyallii, Spring. See laevigata, var.

S. Martensii, Spring. Mexico. S. pceppigiana, Spring ; Hook. Fil. Exot, t. 56.

var. dichotoma, Hort.

var. variegata, Hort.

S. Mettenii, .4. Br. Garden origin.

S. molliceps, Spring. Tropical Africa, Madagascar.

S. mutabilis, Hort. See serpens.

S. nobilis, Hort. Garden origin.

S. patula, Spring. West Indies.

S. perelegans, Moore. See inaequalifolia, var.

S. pilifera, A. Br. Texas, Central Mexico.

S. plumosa, Baker. Tropical Asia.

S. Poulteri, Hort. Azores.

S. radiata, Baker. Tropical America.

S. radicata, Spring. See plumosa.

S. rubella, Moore. Garden origin.

S. ruhricaulis, Hort. See suberosa.

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elaginella, Spring cont.

S. rupestris, Spring. North and south temp, zones ; mountains in the tropics.

S. serpens, Spring. West Indies.

S. strobili/era, Hort. See rubella.

S. tassellata, Hort. Brazil.

S. texta, Hort. See involvens.

S. uncinata, Spring. China.

S. usta, Vieill. New Caledonia.

S. Victoria?, Moore. Malaya, Fiji.

S. viridangula, Spring. Fiji.

S. viciculosa, Klotzsch. Central America, Venezuela.

S. Vogelii, Spring. Tropical Africa, Madagascar.

var. dichroa, Hort.

S. Wallichii, Spring. Tropical Asia.

S. Warscewiczii, Klotzsch. See radiata.

S. watsoniana, Hort. Garden origin.

S. Willdenovii, Baker. Tropical Asia. Lycopodiunc Willdenovii, Desv. ; Hook. & Grew Ic. Fil. t. 57.

Tmesipteris, Bernh.

T. Fosteri, Endl. See tannensis.

T. tannensis, Bernh. Australia, New Zealand, Poly- nesia. T. truncata, Bernh.; Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 86.

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III- APPENDIX.

Cultural Forms of British Ferns.

Adiantum, L.

A. Capillus-Veneris, L. var. daphnites, Lowe. var. elegantissimum, Hort. var. grande, Moore. var. imbricatum, Lowe. var. Mariesii, Moore. var. obrienianum, Birkenhead. var. semilunatum, Lowe.

Aspidium, Sw.

A. aculeatum, Sw. var. Braunii, Hort. var. cruciatum, Jones. var. densum, Moore. var. furcans, S"ori. var. grandiceps, Jones. var. multifidum, HPoZZ. var. proliferum, TF7>Z£. var. pulcherrimum, Jones. var. subcristatum, Jones.

A. *angulare, Willd.

* This is a sub-species of .4. aculeatum, but for garden purposes it is more convenient Lo treat it as a species.

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Aspidium, Su: cont.

A. annulare, Wittd. cont.

var. acutilobum, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 127.

var. acutilobum acutum, Lowe.

var. acutilobum proliferum, Moore.

var. acuto-dissectum, Carbonell.

var. acuto-divaricatum, Carbonell.

var. assimile, Jones.

var. athyrioides, Woll.

var. Baylise, Lyell.

var. brachiatum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 106.

var. brachiatum cristatum, Jarvis.

var. Bucklese, Lowe.

var. calomelanos, Jones.

var. capitatum, Clap.

var. caudatum, Carbonell.

var. Claphami, Jones.

var. concinnum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 173.

var. confluens, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 167.

var. congestum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 120.

var. conspicuilobum, Lowe.

var. conspicuilobum acutum, Carbonell.

var. cristatum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. t. h\.

var. cristatum clintonianum, Hort.

var. cristatum gracile, Woll.

var. cristatum grandiceps, #or£.

var. cruciato-polydactylum, Jones.

var. cruciatum, Lowe.

var. cruciatum proliferum, ^or^.

var. decompositum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 79.

var. decompositum densum, Carbonell.

var. decompositum grande, Jones.

var. decompositum plumosum, Jones.

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Aspidium, Sw.—cont. A. annulare, Willd. cont.

var. decompositum polydactylum, Jones. var. decompositum robustum, Jones.

var. decompositum splendens, Jones. Lowe, Nat. Ferns.

i. 174. var. decurrens, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 98. var. densum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 96. var. divisilobum, Woll. var. divisilobum acutum, Jones. var. divisilobum cristatum, Ivery. var. divisilobum decorum, Jones. var. divisilobum densum, Carbonell. var. divisilobum foliosum, Jones. var. divisilobum lineare, Jones. var. divisilobum multifidum, Jones. var. divisilobum plumosum, Lowe. var. divisilobum proliferum, Woll. var. divisilobum reflexum, Jones. var. divisilobum robustum, Jones. var. divisilobum splendidissimum, Jones. var. dubium, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 86. var. flexuosum, Wo!!. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 133. var. flexuosum polydactylum, Jones. var. folioso-decompositum, Jones. var. foliosum, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 117. var. foliosum multifidum, Jones. var. frondosum, Jones. var. frondosum decompositum, Jones. var. frondosum polydactylum, Jones. var. grandiceps, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 150. var. grandidens, Jones. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 85. var. ingequale variegatum, Woll. 23:>4 1 F

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.Aspidium, Sw. cont.

A. angulare, Willd. cont.

var. inciso-acutum, Stansf. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 137.

var. Kitsonise, Moore. Lowe, Nar. Ferns, i. 124.

var. laciniatum, Woll. Lowe, Nut. Ferns, i. 94.

var. laciniatum flexuosum, Hort.

var. lanceolatum, Moore.

var. latifolium, Woll.

var. latifolium grandiceps, Jones.

var. laxo-crispum, Jones.

var. lineare, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 93.

var. lineare polydactylum, Jones.

var. lineatum, Moly.

var. Marshallii, Hort.

var. multifidum densum, Jones.

var. multilobum, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 121.

var. multilobum densum, Jones.

var. multilobum multifidum, Jones.

var. multilobum ovale, Woll.

var. multilobum polydactylum, Jones.

var. multilobum revolvens, Jones.

var. oxypbyllum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 111*.

var. Pateyi, Moore.

var. pendens, Jones.

var. perserratum, Jones.

var. plumosum, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 113.

var. plumosum elegantissimum, Jones.

var. polydactylum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 114.

var. polydactylum capitatum, Join*.

var. polydactylum cruciatum, Lowe.

var. polydactylum grande, Jones.

var. polydactylum grandiceps, Jones.

var. polydactylum laxum, Jo?tes.

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Aspidium, Sw. conl.

A. annulare, Willd. rout.

var. polydactylum multifidum, Jones.

var. polydactylum robustum, Jones.

var. proliferum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 80.

var. proliferum densum, Carbonell.

var. proliferum holeanum, Moore.

var. pulcherrimum, Moore.

var. pulchrum, Moore.

var. ramo-varians, Jones.

var. remoto-decurrens, Wall.

var. revolvens, Moore.

var. rotundum polydactylon, i/o;^.

var. scalptum, Carbonell.

var. Stansfieldii, Lo^'e.

var. stipatum, Wall.

var. stipitatum, Moore.

var. subpinnatum, ZZbr£.

var. subplumosum, Woll.

var. Thompsoniae, Zo^-e. Nat. Ferns, i. 140.

var. torto-cristatum, Padley.

var. tripinnatum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 78.

var. tripinnatum deccmpositum, Lowe. Mat. Fertb. i. 172.

var. tripinnatum elegans, Hort.

var. tripinnatum polydactylum, Jones.

var. varians, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 105.

var. venustum, Moo/e.

var. Wollastoni majus, Hort.

Asplenium, L.

A. Filix-fcemina, Bern J/. var. abasiphyllum, Lowe.

K

Asplenium, L. cant.

A Filix-foemina, Bernh. con I.

var. adpresso-cristatum, Jones.

var. Andersoni, Hort.

var. angustatum, Lowe.

var. apuaeforme, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 26.

var. axminsterense, Lowe.

var. cancellatum cristatum, Jones.

var. caudiculatum, Mapp.

var. ceratophyllum, Mapp.

var. clarissimum, Jones.

var. congestion cristatum, Stansf.

var. conoides cristatum, Stansf.

var. coronatum, Zojfe. Nat. Ferns, ii. 35.

var. corymbiferum, Moore.

var. Craigii, Moore.

var. Craigii laciniatum, Jones.

var. crispum coronatum, Jones. Lowe, Nat. Ferns.. ii. 36.

var. crispum cristatum, Carbonell.

var. cristato-cristatum, Hort.

var. cristatum, Wo//.

var. cristatum capitatum, Carbonell.

var. cristatum densum, Carbonell.

var. cristatum reflexum, Carbonell.

var. cruciato-capitatum, Carbonell.

var. cruciato-coronatum, Carbonell.

var. cruciato-cristatum, Jones.

var. cruciato-gracile, Jones.

var. cruciato-grandiceps, Jones.

var. cruciato-magnificum, Jones.

var. cruciato-multifidum, Stansf.

var. cruciatum, Jones.

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Asplenium, L. coat.

A. Filix-foemina, Bernh. cont.

var. cruciatum corymbiferum. Hort.

var. curtum, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. [)2.

var curtum cristatum, Stansf.

var. daphnites, Glave.

var. daphnites capitatum, Glave.

var. defecto-furcellans, Hurt.

var. defecto-gracile, Mapp.

var. diffidum, Jones.

var. diffiso-multifidum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns,

ii. 44. var. digitale capitatum, Jones. var. digitale purpureum, Jones. var. Elworthii, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 46. var. Fieldiae, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Fern?, ii. 50. var. Fieldiss minus, Jones.

var. fissidens, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. b2. var. flabelliceps, Carbonell. var. flexuosum, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 49. var. folioso-crispatum, Carbonell. var. folioso-cristatum, Wo//. var. Frizellise, Man re. Lowe, Nat, Ferns, ii. 53.

var. Frizellise cristatum, Jones. Lowe, Nat. Ferns.

ii. 142. var. Frizellise multifidum, Barnes.

var. Frizellise nanum, Ivery. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. o4.

var. furcans, Moore.

var. germanicum, Hort.

var. glomeratum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. oti.

var. glomeratum grandiceps, Jones.

var. gracile, Moore.

var. grammicon, Lowe.

var. grandiceps, Moore.

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Asplenium, L. cont.

A. Filix-fcemina, Bernh. cont.

var. grandiceps globosum, Sim.

var. grandiceps minus, Garbonell.

var. grandiceps pumilum, Sim.

var. Howards, Moure.

var. imbricatum, Garbonell

var. insequale, Woll.

var. insequale cristatum, Jones.

var. interruptum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. iYl.

var. irregulare, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 63.

var. kalothrix, Lowe.

var. laceratum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. bti.

var. laciniatum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. t. 39a.

var. laciniatum caudatum, Hort.

var. laciniatum elegans, Stansf.

var. laciniatum furcans, Jones.

var. laciniatum multifidum, Lowe.

var. Lowse, Lowe.

var. Lowse capitatum, Lowe.

var. Medusae ramocristatum, Hort.

var. multifidum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. t. 36i

var. multifidum laxum, Jones.

var. nodosum, Jones.

var. nodosum multifidum, Jones.

var. nodosum nanum, Jones.

var. nodosum ramulosum, Jones.

var. nodosum truncatum, Jones.

var. orbiculatum, Lot/;?. Nat. Ferns, ii. 127.

var. pannosum, Moore. Lowe, Xat. Ferns, ii. 78.

var. pannosum cristatum, Joins.

var. Parsonsiae, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 79-.

var. paucidentatum cristatum. Map/,.

173

Asplenium, L. cant.

A. Filix-foemina, Bernh. cant. var. pectinatum, Moore. var. pectinatum Stableri, Mapp. var. percristatum, Lowe. var. perfectum, Carbonell, var. phyllomanes, Mapp. var. plumosum, Moore. var. plumosum divaricatum, Moore. var. plumosum Edwardsi, Sim. var. plumosum elegans, Parsons. var. plumosum Hodgsonae, Lowe. var. polydactylon, Moore. var. polydactylon cristatum, Stanst. var. polydactylon grandiceps, Jones. var. proteoides, Lrwe. var. proteum, Clap. var. proteum cristatum, Jones. var. pulcherrimum, Jones. var. pulcherrimum cristatum, Jones, var. Pulleri, Moore. var. purpureum corymbiferum, Fort. var. rectangulare, Moore. var. reflexum, Woll. var. refractum, Moore. var. regale, Moore.

var. rhaeticum, Deakin. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 128. var. rhaeticum reflexum, Mapp. var. rotundatum, T'ToW. var. rotundatum lunulatum, ( ■arbonell. var. setigerum, Jones. var. Stableri, Eottte. var. Stansfieldii, Lowe.

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Asplenium, L. cant.

A Filix-foemina, Bernh. cont.

var. stipatum, Moore.

var. stipatum capitatum, Carbonell.

var. subcruciatum, Hort.

var. todeoides, Stansf.

var. tortile, Moore.

var. torto-cristatum, Carbonell.

var. torto-grandiceps, Carbonell.

var. truncato-pinnulum, Jones.

var. Tyermanni. Hort.

var. unco-cristatum, Jones.

var. unco-ramulosum, Stansf.

var. variegatum, TFo//.

var. Vernoniae, Jet-vis. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 33.

var. Vernonise corymbiferum, Stansf.

var. Vernoniae crispum, Stansf.

var. Vernoniae cristatum, Mapp.

var. Victoria?, Lowe. Nat. Ferns, ii. 97.

var. Williamsii, Jones.

Oystopteris, Bernh.

C. fragilis, Bernh.

var. angustata, Smith. var. dickieana, Moore.

Nephrodium, L. C. Rich.

N. Filix-mas, L. C. Rich.

var. attenuatum, Padley.

var. Barnesii, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 212.

var. Bollandae, Moore.

var. capitatum, Carbon'-//.

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Nephrodium, L. G. Rich. cont. N. Filix-mas, L. G. Rich.— cont. var. concinnum, Hort. var. crispatissimum, Jones. var. crispulatum, Hort.

var. crispum, Sim. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 248. var. crispum gracile, Lyell. var. Crista-Galli, Garbonell. var. cristatum, Lowe. var. cristatum angustatum, Moore. var. cristatum caudatum, Ivery. var. cronkleyense, Lowe. var. depauperatum, Padley. var. digitatum, Lowe. var. Ellacombei, Lowe.

var. erosum, Clowes. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 248. var. flexuosum polydactylon, Hort. var. fluctuosum, Moore.

var. furcans, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 244. var. grandiceps, Sim. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 275. var. Ingrami, Moore.

var. interruptum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 242. var. lineare, Woll. var. multiforme, Barnes. var. paleaceum, Hook. var. paleaceum cristatum, Moore. var. paleaceum cristatum intermedium, Sim. var. paleaceum ramo-furcillatum, Woll. var. paleaceum revolvens, Woll. var. polydactylum, Lowe. Nat. Ferns, i. 257. var. propinquum, Woll. var. propinquum cristatum, Moore. var. propinquum gracile, Moore. 23941 G

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Nephrodium, L. C. Rich. cont. N. Filix-mas, L. G. Rich. cont.

var. propinquum grandiceps, Moore.

var. propinquum imbricatum, Hort.

var. propinquum parviceps, Barnes.

var. propinquum polydactylum, Barnes.

var. pseudo-mas, Woll. See var. paleaceum.

var. Pulleri, Jones.

var. ramo-cristatum, Stansf.

var. ramo-furcillatum, Carbonell.

var. ramosum, Barnes.

var. revolvens, Humphreys.

var. serratum cristatum, ZZortf.

var. subcristatum, Carbonell.

var. variegatum, Lowe.

var. willyanum, ^or/.

N. spinulosum, Desv.

var. dilatatum, Hoo/r. Brit. Ferns, t. 19.

var. dilatatum angusti-pinnulum, Sim. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 1513.

var. dilatatum calomelanos, Jones.

var. dilatatum corymbiferum, Hort.

var. dilatatum foliosum multicristatum, Hort.

var. dilatatum foliosum ramosum, Hort.

var. dilatatum grandiceps, Barnes.

var. dilatatum Howards, Jones.

var. dilatatum lepidotum, Moore.

Osmunda, L. 0. regalis, L. var. cristata, Moore. var. palustris, Hort. var. purpurascens, Moore.

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PolypodiumJL.

P. Phegopteris, L. var. cristatum, Jones, var. strictum, Barnes.

P. vulgare, L.

var. acuto-serratum, Jones.

var. acutum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 27.

var. cambricuni, Willd. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 32.

var. cambricum Barrowi, Barnes.

var. cornubiense, Moore.

var. cornubiense elegantissimum, Stansf.

var. Elworthii, Ivery.

var. falcatum, Jones.

var. grandiceps, Eort.

var. macrostachya, O' Kelly.

var. multifido-cristatum, Stansf. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 43.

var. omnilacerum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. t. 7b.

var. pulcherrimum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 46.

var. ramosum, Moo?*e.

var. semilacerum, Link. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 47.

var. serratum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, i. 48.

var. serratum elegans, Hort.

var. trichomanoides, Backh.

Scolopendrium, J. E. Sm.

S. vulgare, J. E. Sm.

var. aduncum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 354. var. crispum, Grey. var. Crista-Galli, Woll. var. Cuspis, Garbonell. var. fisso-crenatum, Jones.

183

Scolopendrium, J. E. Sm. cont.

S. vulgare, J. E. Sm. cont.

var. grandiceps, Jones.

var. illustre, Lowe.

var. involvens, Mapp.

var. labyrinthicum, Lowe.

var. laceratum, Moore.

var. macrosorum, Moore.

var. marginatum, Moore.

var. (Enone, Hort.

var. peraferens, Woll.

var. peraferens ovale, Hort

var. ramulosissimum, Woll.

var. scalpturatum, Moore. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 249.

var. submarginato-fissum, Wills.

var. undulatum cochleatum, Jones.

var. variegatum, Woll. Lowe, Nat. Ferns, ii. 333.

var. Veloisii, Moore.

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