6o Glenniei Baker in SvNorsis Filicum 



Plants isolated, or united in tufts by the matted roots ; candcx 



erect, short; stipes >i-2i^ in. 1., rarely more than i>^ ni. 

 densely tufted, soft, castaneous, clothed at base with linear hair- 

 pointed dark-colored scales, more or less so clothed upwards, 

 scales [gradually changiuL^ upwards to soft hairs, /;w/^/linear-lanceot 



late, bipinnatified, never nearly bipinnate, 2-9 in. 1., y^-i % m. br., 

 rhachis flattened, win^t^ed, green in upper two thirds, the castaneous 

 color of stipes extending farthest up the inferior side, and some- 

 times in patches; pinnae 20-2 5 -jugate, oblong with an expanded 

 base or cuneate, sometimes leafy and then obliquely triangular and 

 less cut, subpetiolate, blunt, costae inconspicuous, undulate later- 

 ally, lower pinnae more distinct, shorter but scarcely narrower^ at 

 base, sometimes trifoliate in shape ; segments 3-6-jugate, having 

 1-6 teeth according to number of veinlcts, lower margins concavely 

 cut or scooped out, lowest anterior much cut away ; color dark 

 green ; veins one to each segment sometimes forking near tips ; 

 "sori costular, one at the base of each segment, two or more in 

 lowest anterior ; frond often very attenuate upwards and then root- 

 ing at tip ; segments sometimes all truncate or marginate at apex 

 and there proliferous." 



The Himalayan habitats I have noted are : The Pun'JAb : in 

 Knller 7-9000 ft. alt., one station ; in the Simla Region 6-9000 ft., 

 not common, but gathered by seven persons separately. In the 

 Northwestern Provinces : in the Dehra Boon Dist., in lannsar 

 7000 ft., in tlie Hill Sanitarium of Mussooree 55-7000 ft., locally 



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plentiful ; in Garhival 6-7000 ft., not often seen ; in the Kumaun 

 Dist. 5-10000 ft, in various places. 



As to distribution — besides the Mexican and U. S. A. habi- 

 tats already mentioned— I have noted Waugtu in the Sikkim Him- 

 alaya, ^.;^/('. //. cS- Thorns. 1847; the S. Indian stations for Bed- 

 dome's plant already mentioned : China 

 Mengtez ; Yunnan, W. Hancock, 1893 ; " shady rocks, very local." 



If the Nilgiri (S. India) plant (Bcdd. F. S. i, t. 146) be admit- 

 ted to be the same as the American and Himalayan plants (Bed- 

 dome added " Himalayas " as a habitat in his Handbook), then 

 Beddome's name A. cxiguum, being the older, must have priority 

 over Baker's name, A. Glenniei. A. Zunnancnse Franchet in Bull. 

 Bot. Soc. France, 1885, p. 28, which Air. Baker, in Ann. Bot., 

 1892, placed as a variety of A. fontanmn Bernh., near var. exigunm, 

 and of which Beddome in his Suppt. of 1 892, after describing it, says: 

 " Seems hardly to differ from typical fontannm;' must, I think, 

 also come under A. cxi^iiunL 



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