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aspidioid indusia. It is curious that a fern which extends from 
the extreme south of China, along the whole eastern seaboard 
into Manchuria and Japan, should have remained so long unde- 
tected. I am now quite satisfied by the arguments of Milde that 
Athyrium is a distinct group which cannot, without violence to 
nature, be associated with Asplenium. 
66. ASPLENIUM VARIANS, Wall. (Jehol, coll. Rev. P. A. David), 
and, I have no doubt, a small specimen from Maximowicz (labelled 
“n. 46. A. sepulchrale, Hook.—.4. pekinense, Hance. Naga- 
saki, rarius in muris vetustis, a. 1853 ”) are referable to the same 
species. My 4. pekinense is, I believe, quite distinct from this, 
as acknowledged by Mettenius and Kuhn, though Sir William 
Hooker and Mr. Baker have confounded the two. All the speci- 
mens I have received from Dr. Williams are precisely alike. A 
third species, gathered in Japan by Oldham, and distributed from 
Kew under the same name, is quite unlike in habit and dimen- 
sions. This M. Maximowicz has also sent me, ticketed :—'* n. 45. 
Asplenium furcatum, Thbg.? nisi sp. nova=A. sepulchrale, Hook., 
teste spec. ex hb. Kew. A. solidum, Kze.? ex Baker Syn. Fil. p. 214, 
p. 454, ad A. sepulchrale amandatum ? Cum A. pekinensi (sepul- 
chrali) certissime non jungendum, jam statione et habitu. Ab 4. 
J'urcato vero africano etiam diversissimum ! In hortis 4. furcatum, 
A. pramorsum, et A. canariense semper constantia. Nagasaki, 
1863, in rupibus madidis umbrosis." This is doubtless the fern 
recently described by Dr. Kuhn (Linnea, vol. xxxvi. p. 94) from 
Mettenius's manuscripts as 4. Wilfordit, with the remark that it 
is allied to A. laserpitiifolium. It is clear that the name A. se- 
pulchrale must be suppressed, as representing a “species col- 
lectiva.” 
67. ASPIDIUM CRASPEDOSORUM, Mazim.—In silvis montanis humidis 
ditionis Pekinensis, Jehol, in rupibus umbratis, Julio frf. legit Rev. 
A. David. 
The Chinese specimens agree with the var. mandshuricum in the 
sharpness of the teeth and more distinctly auriculate pinne, but 
they have uniseriate sori as in the var. japonicum. My speci- 
mens, both Chinese and Manchurian, are, contrary to Maximo- 
wiez's diagnosis, larger than and with equally numerous pinnz as 
the Japanese form, which I possess from both Veitch and Maximo- 
wiez. The plant has a remarkable resemblance to Woodsia poly- 
stichoides, Eaton. 
