FLORULA HONGKONGENSIS. 361 



(PI 



Harland) 



A well-known inhabitant of the United States and Canada, its range 

 extending south to Mexico {Liebmann), New Granada (Purdie), and 

 Brazil {Gardner), but never till now found in any part of Asia, nor has 

 it yet been detected on the west or Pacific side of North America. The 

 nearly-allied species (more near than botanists seem generally aware) 

 Osmunda Claytoniana, L. (interrupta, Mich.), is however frequent in 

 Assam, Khasya, and the Himalayan regions, Bootan, etc., and is the 



0. pilosa, Wall. MSS., and of Hook, and Grev. Enum. Fil. in Bot. 

 Misc. iii. p. 229. 



LYGODIACEiE. 



1. Lygodium scandens, Sw. — Presl, Suppl. Tent. Pterid. — L. micro- 

 phyllum, Br. Prodr. 162. — Blume, Enum. Fil. Jav. 255. Ugena mi- 

 crophylla, Cav. Ic. \i.p. 76. t. 595./. 2. Ophioglossum scandens, L. 

 Hab. China and Cochinchina, Loureiro. Hongkong, Major Cham- 

 pion, J. C. Bowring, Esq., n. 5. South China, Seemann, n. 2383. 



Cavanilles* figure admirably represents both the barren and fertile 

 state of this plant. 



2. Lygodium Japonicum, Sw. Hydroglossum Japonicum, TTilld. llort. 

 Berol. ii. p. 84. t. 84. Ophioglossum Japonicum, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 



p. 328. 



Hab. Canton and Macao, Osbeck, Thunberg, Vachell. Hongkong, 



Major Champion, J. C. Bowman, Esq., n. 12. Chusan, Foo-chow-foo, 

 and Tung-tan, Mr. Alexander. Nangasaki, Japan, Mr. Babington. 



Some of our specimens, both in the sterile and fertile fronds, exactly 

 resemble the figure of the Hortus Berolinensis ; in other specimens the 

 fertile pinnules are much larger and less divided ; in some they quite 

 resemble those of L. scandens, but the sterile pinnules are always more 



divided. 



3. Lygodium circinatum, Sw. — Presl, Suppl. Tent. Pterid. p. 100. 



L. pedatum, Sw. Hydroglossum circinatum, Willd. — Poir, Bid. 



Scienc. Nat., cum ic. Ophioglossum pedatum, Burm. Fl. Ind. 227. 



t. 66. /. 1 (cetas juvenilis). Ophioglossum flexuosum, Linn. Adi- 



antum volubile, JRumph. Arrib. \i.p. 75. t. 33. 



Hab. Hongkong, Br. Bill, J. C. Bowring, Esq., n. 11. Chusan, 



Mr. Alexander. 

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