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province of Valdivia and Chiloe. Among Mr Reed's specimens from Juan Fernandez, is a 

 very singular, stoloniferous variety on which the contiguous pinnules are twice as long 

 as broad. Allied to the Australasian and Polynesian Lomaria lanceolata. 



Lomaria lherrninieri, Bory. 



Lomaria lherrninieri, Bory; Hook., Sp. Fil., iii. p. 9 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis FiL, p. 176 ; Hook.' 



Gard. Ferns, t. 40; Kunze, Farmkrauter, p. 173, t. 73. 

 Lomaria lanceolata, Spreng. 1 Colla in Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino, xxxix. p. 45. 

 Blechnum lherrninieri, Mett., Fil. Hort. Lips., p. 64, t. 4. 



Juan Fernandez. — On the roots of trees on the bills — Bcrtero ; Moseley. 



This species ranges from the West Indies and New Grenada southward to Chili, and 

 on the authority of Hooker and Baker, it scarcely differs from the Australian and Poly- 

 nesian Lomaria lanceolata. 



Lomaria alpina, Spreng. 



Lomaria alpina, Spreng., Syst. Veg., iv. p. 62 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis Fil., p. 178; Hook., Sp. Fil., 



iii. p. 16. 

 Lomaria jiennamarina, Mett.; Kuhn, Fil. Afr., p. 92; Baker in Mart. Fl. Bras. Polypod., fasc. xlix., 



p. 414. 

 Lomaria gayana, Fee in Gay Fl. Chil, vi. p. 481, et Fougeres, 7ierne Mein., p. 25, t. 10, fig. 1. 

 Blechnum parvidum, Philippi, Descr. Nuevas Plantas, 1873, p. 104. 



Juan Fernandez. Sainthill. 



Widely dispersed in south temperate regions, except South Africa. For more extended 

 synonymy and further particulars of this species see the Report on the Botany of the Tristan 

 da Cunha group in Part II., p. 164, of this Work. 



Mr Sainthill's specimen, referred to this species by Mr Baker, answers quite well to 

 Philippi's description of his Blechnum parvulum, and is apparently nothing more than 

 an abnormal state of Lomaria alpina. Similar blechnoid conditions of Lomaria are not 

 uncommon. 



Lomaria boryana, Willd. 



Lomaria boryana, Willd., Sp. PI., v. p. 292 ; Hook, and Bak., Synopsis Fil., p. 180. 



Lomaria magellanica, Desv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par., vi. p. 289; Hook., Sp. Fil., iii. p. 26; Hook. 



f., Fl. Antarct., p. 393 ; Gay, Fl. Chil., vi. p. 480. 

 Blechnum magellanicum, Mett., Fil. Lechl., p. 14. 



Lomaria cycadifoUa, Colla in Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino, xxxix. p. 43, t. 71. 

 Blechnum ci /cadi folium, Sturm, Enum. Fil. Chil., p. 23. 

 Lomaria lanuginosa, Kunze, Anal. Pteridogr., p. 19; Gay, Fl. Chil., vi. p. 479. 



Juan Fernandez. In the mountain woods — Bertero; Moseley; Downton. 

 A very common fern in America, from the West Indies southward to the Strait of 

 Magellan and the Falkland Islands ; also common in South Africa, and occurring in 



