590 FILICES. 
Australia and America, and extending southward to Chili and New Zealand, and 
northward to China and Japan. 
~ 1. Gleichenia bancroftii, Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 5, t. 4; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. 
ed. 2, p. 12 (sub G. longissima, Bl1.). 
Mertensia bancroftii, Kunze in Linnea, xviii. p. 807 ; Liebm. Mexicos Bregner, p. 144; Fourn. 
Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 187; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 651. 
Mertensia grandis, Fée, 9° Mém. Foug. p. 31. 
Gleichenia glauca, Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 4, t. 3 B, non Swartz; J. Sm. in Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,” 
p. 843. 
NortH Mexico, Sierra Madre (Seemann, 1926) ; SourH Mexico, Mirador (Schaffner), 
Dos Puentes, between Totutla and Huatusco (iebmann), Azul (Bourgeau, 3152); 
GuaTEMALA, Chilasco (Godman & Salvin).—Cotomsia ; Guiana; Brazit; West INDIEs. 
Hb. Kew. | 
In the ‘Synopsis Filicum’ this is united with G. longissima, Blume, and, thus 
extended, the range of the species includes India, China, Japan, the Malayan archi- 
pelago, and the Sandwich Islands. | 
2. Gleichenia (Mertensia) pectinata, Presl; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 15. 
Mertensia glaucescens, Willd. ; Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 11; Mart. et Gal. Foug. Mex. p. 17; Liebm. 
Mexicos Bregner, p. 146 ; Fourn, Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 137. 
Mertensia hermanni, Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 14, excl. syn. 
South Mexico, Orizaba (Bourgeau, 3615), Mirador (Galeotti, 6402), Huitamalco 
(Liebmann), Tlapacoya (Hahn); Guatemata (Skinner; Godman &. Salvin); Panama, 
Chagres (Fendler, 316), railway cutting (S. Hayes, 176).—Common in ‘TROPICAL SoutH 
America and the West Inpizs. Hb. Kew. 
3. Gleichenia (Mertensia) pubescens, H. B. K.; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. 
p. 13; Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 8; Bak. in Journ. Bot. 1884, p. 362. 
Mertensia immersa, Kaulf.; Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 15. 
Mertensia tomentosa, Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 164; Mart. et Gal. Foug. Mex. p. 16; Fourn. Mex. Pl. 
Enum. i. p. 187. ~ 
Mertensia furcata, Swartz; Liebm. Mexicos Bregner, p. 145. 
Mertensia palmata, Schaffner ; Fée 9° Mém. Foug. p. 82. 
Gleichenia mathewsii, Hook. Sp. Fil. i. p. 9; Fourn. loc. cit. p. 188. 
South Mexico, Vera Cruz to Orizaba (Miller, 73 a), valley of Cordova (Bourgeau, 
1450: tomentosa, Swartz), Huitamalco (Liebmann), Chiapas (Ghiesbreght), Huatusco 
(Schmitz), region of Orizaba (Bourgeau, 3188: palmata, Schaff.), Cordillera of Oaxaca, 
7500 feet (Galeotti, 6382: mathewsti, Hook.) ; Guatemana, without locality ( Skinner, 
mathewsit), Yzabal (Godman & Salvin); Nicaragua, Chontales (Tate ; Seemann, 212; 
Lévy, 507); Costa Rica (Harrison).—CotomBia to Peru; Guiana and BraZIL, and in 
the West Inpizs. Hb. Kew. 
