378 ENUMEEATION OF [FlUceS, 



3* PSILOTUM, Sw. 



1. P, triquetrum, Sw. (Hook. Gen. Fil. t, 87.)— CP. 1420 (1272) 

 Hab. Not uncommon in the Central Province. 



CLXIX MAESILEACE^. 



1, MARSILEA, Linn. 



1. M. quadrifolia, Linn. (WiUd. Sp. PL v. p. 538.)— C.P. 3051 

 Hak. South of the island. 



2. M, erosa, Willd. I. c. p. 540.— C.P. 1422. 

 Hab. Hotter parts of the island, north of Kandy. 



2. AZOLLA, Lam. 



1. A. pinnata^ R. Br. Prodr. p. 167 ; Moore, Inc 

 syn. — C.P. 1421. 



Hab. Common in the warmer parts of the island. 



CLXX. PILICES. 



1. BOTRYCHIUM, S\t. 



1. B. daucifolium, Wall. (Hook. Bot. Mag, 3rd ser. xyiii. t, 5340.) 

 C.P. 1410 (1271). 



Hab. Forests of the Central Province, up to an elevation of 4000 

 feet, 



2. B. Virginicum, Willd.— Var. /3. Lidicum, Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 

 29. Var. ^. lanuginosum, Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 313, cum syn. Var. )3. 

 Wall. Cat. n. 48.— c.p, 3266 (1181). 



Hab. Newera EUia, on the turf under the shade of trees. ■ 



In general appearance very like the preceding species, but at once distinguisaed 

 from it by the fertile branch of the rachis arising from the middle of the leafy por- 

 tion of the froudj whilst in the preceding it originates below it. 



2. HELMINTHOSTACHYS, Kaulf. 



1. H. Zeylanica, Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 47, B, cum syn. ; Gard. Ferns, 

 t. 28. — Boirycldum Zeylanicum, Svv. Syn. Fil. p. 172. — c.p. 1411. 

 Hab. South of the island, on the borders of paddy fields, etc., not 



uncommon. 



3. pPHIOGLOSSUM, Linn. 



1. O. pendulum, Linn. (Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. GO ; Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 15 

 Hoot. Gard. Ferns, t. 53.)— c.p. 1409 (1180). 



Hab. Common upon the trunks of trees in tlie Central Province. 



2. O. vulgatum, Linn. (WiUd. 1. c. p. 58.)— O. ovatum, WiUd. 1- c 

 c.p. 1408. 



Hab. More elevated narts of the Central Province. 



