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produced beyond lamina, rooting at the tip, I lab. San Luis, ;ooo, 

 Pearce." But A. inicroptcron differs materially in having a flat- 

 tened and broadly and interruptedly winged rhachis, and also in 

 the cutting of the pinnae, and must be considered quite distinct. 

 Mr. Baker's type specimen of A. Glcnnici {vide Ic. Fil. //. 1648) 

 has not a prolonged and proliferous rachis ; but in the British 



Museum there is one plant :ymong A. f on f ami iii, ticketed " U. S. 



Pacific Coast Flora (new to U. S.) var.— ' Conservatory/ Huachuca 

 Mts.; Arizona, August 8, 1882, Lemmon Herbarium, Oakland, 

 California," which is exactly the northwest Himalayan fern, and 

 it is proliferous on the pinnae throughout, and also at the 

 apex of the frond. And there are in the same herbarium two 

 specimens from America, named A. Glcnnid Baker, which are ex- 

 actly the Himalayan plant. Also, there are in the Calcutta Her- 

 barium three specimens named A. Glcnnici, from America, one or 

 two of which is the Himalayan fern, the third is not. 



The Mexican plant had been named Athyrinni gracile by 

 Fournicr, in his Fil. Mex. 102, published in 1872, and Mr. Baker 

 gave this as a synonym of his Asplcniuni Glcnnici, bcln^ obliged 

 to reject gracile as the specific name because there was already 

 Asplcniuni gracile Fee, and also another plant so named by 

 Pappe and Rawson. Fournier's plant is in the " Herbier de la 

 Commission scientifique du Mexico, recueilli par M. Bourgeau 

 1865-66." Lemmon's plant, collected in Arizona, 1882, was 

 identified by Baker as A. Glcnnici, and was cited as A. Glcnnici 

 Baker, by Eaton In the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical 

 Club, 1883, p. 29, and some specimens collected by Pringle, and 

 by Lloyd, in Mexico In 1886 and 1894, were also so named. 



I find no difficulty In separating the Himalayan and North 

 American plant from A. fontanum Bernh. ; but it Is not without 

 hesitation that I came to the conclusion that it is the same as Bed- 

 dome's Nilgiri plant. Beddome found his plant In only one sta- 

 tion, and he then thouglit it nearly allied to A. coniptorhachis Kze., 

 which Baker unites with A. lunulatum Sw. Mr. Gamble has a 

 dozen plants ticketed A. cxiguum, which he got near Barliar, on 

 the Nilgiris, 2500 ft. alt., all small and narrow, and with prolonged 

 rhachises. I have seen no S. Indian specimen nearly so large as 

 the Himalayan plant reaches. Of the latter-named plant I wrote 

 the following description about eight years ago : 



