92 DR. H. F. HANCE ON NORTH-CHINA PLANTS. 
The only species hitherto recorded from Peking and neighbour- 
hood is H. Bungeana, Trin., which I have been unsuccessful in 
procuring. Father David's plant is in every respect identical with 
specimens gathered on the Schilka by Maximowicz. 
62. PAPPOPHORUM BOREALE, Griseb,—Ad vias prope Kalgan, prov. 
Chih li, m. Septembri 1867 collegit Dr. S. W. Williams. 
Not before recorded from China proper. It is somewhat sin- 
gular that this species—which was not found either by Schrenck or 
Semenow, is not enumerated in Prof. Grisebach's recension of the 
Gramines of Higher Central Asia (Göttinger Nachrichten, 1868), 
and had, indeed, I believe, only been met with in one or two 
localities in Siberia and Mongolia—should, according to Prof. 
Torrey (Rep. on Whipple’s Exped. 99), be not uncomon in New 
Mexico. In like manner, the Siberian, Mongolian, Tien-shan, and 
Sikkim Lasiagrostis mongholica, Trin. and Rupr., has been found 
in the Rocky Mountains. 
63. GYMNOGRAMME VESTITA, Hook.—In rupibus obumbratis circa 
Jehol, a. 1868 leg. Rev. A. David. 
This fern has hitherto only been met with in Northern China and 
in the North-west Himalayas. Specimens in my herbarium from 
the latter locality agree well with those gathered by Father David. 
64. CHEILANTHES Kuan, Milde.—In montibus elatioribus umbrosis 
prope Peking, raram, Junio frf. invenit Rev. P. Arm. David. 
This fern was confounded by me with C. tenuifolia, Sw. My 
solitary specimen is badly dried; but a reexamination, made at 
the suggestion of Dr. Kuhn, proves it, as he suspected, to belong to 
Milde’s species. Itis well characterized by the pales of the rhizome, 
and the stipitate glands of the frond. Dr. Kuhn seems to doubt its 
distinctness from C. Dalhousie, Hook., of which he had only seen 
a fragment, however, and had no means of comparing the two, 
The occurrence of Gymnogramme vestita, Hook., and Adiantum 
Edgeworthii, Hook., near Peking would rather favour this suppo- 
sition; but my specimen is very unlike the figure given by Hooker 
of the Indian species (Spec. Fil. ii. t. 78 B) under the name of C. 
dealbata. 
65. ATHYRIUM NIPONICUM (ASPLENIUM, Mett.).—Peking, ad mar- 
gines rivulorum, in montosis, Julio frf. coll. Dr. S. W. Williams, 
Rev. A. David. 
M. Maximowiez sends from Japan and littoral Manchuria à 
variety approaching 4. Goeringianum by its rigidity of texture and 
