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that, at last, some one besides myself has discovered that our Mashobra (Simla) 

 BotrycMum is not B. daucifolium." 



[Beddome, in his Handbook, gives B. daucifolium, Wall, as found 

 " throughout the Indian region, up to 8000' elevation; " but the 

 only specimen in the Kew Herbarium from the westward of Nepal 

 so named is one marked Kumaun, R. Bl. 49, "an mera varietas, 

 Wall. 48 ? " But No. 48 of Walliche's catalogue is B. lannginosum, 

 Wall. 

 The other habitats of B. daucifolium i, to which the specimens in the Kew 

 Herbarium are referred, are Nepal, Winterbottom ; Sikkim ; Bhotan 

 Griffith ; Nilgiris, Beddome and Clarke ; Anamalais, Beddome. 

 Ceylon, Gardner. China — Yunnan, Henry. Japan. Samoa.] 

 McDonell's specimen of fernatum from Chamba is curious ; it has two sterile 

 segments at the base,' — the fertile branch starting 1^ in. up. A Mussooree speci- 

 men I have from the Messrs. Mackinnon, shows the sterile and fertile branches on 

 segments splitting from a common stipes at barely half an inch from the root 

 stock, — the sterile one 7 in. I. by 7| in. broad, as mounted. The fertile branch baa 

 a stipes 10| in. I., pj — ^ inch broad, as pressed ; frond over G in. 1. tripinnate. 

 Mr. Ainslie's specimen from Kumaun, in the Levinge collection in Dublin, I 

 noted as being very lax in hal.it : sterile branch l£f in. 1. from the point of 

 separation : fertile branch 24 in. 1., much branching. In the same collection 

 I noted a remarkable specimen collected by Mr. Levinge in Darjiling, alt. 7160', 

 12-10-1882, of which the fertile branch starts at 3 inches from the rhizome : 

 the sterile spike (or the frond) then curves to the right (as mounted), and f in. 

 higher up throws off to the left a fertile branch with a thick stipes, which 1& 

 inches higher splits into two fertile, branching, segments of equal length. I 

 believe Professor L. M. Underwood says that what I call B. ternalum is B. 

 obliqmim, Muhl. 



3. B. Virginianum, Sw. ; Syn. Fil. 448 ; C. E. 588, including 3. 

 lanuginosum, Wall. ; Bedd. H. B. 471, including B. lanuginomm, Wall. 



Punjab : Hazdra Dist.-Ka.gin Vy. 8000', Inayat, collector from bort. Sahar. 

 Nd. 20388 (Herb. Number) ; Chamba State— McDonell. 



N.-W. P. : T. Garh., Datum 7000', Gamble 1893, No. 24318 ; Murali 8000', 

 Gamble 1894, 2-1886 ; Duthie 1898. 



Distrib. — N. Amer. : New Brunswick to Florida, and westward to Arizona 

 and the Pacific Coast, fide Underwood. S. Amer. Ecuador and Brazil,— fide 

 ' Synopsis\ Europe: from Norway to Austria. Asia : N. Ind. (Him.) Sikkim— 

 Rung-bee, King 1878 ; marked "abnormal form. 1 '' 



I give this species as new to India, because I have no distinct recollection of 

 King's Sikkim specimen, ncttd above ; and, besides, that specimen has not been 

 recorded. While I was at the Royal Herbarium, Kew, in 1888 or 1889, along 



