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4. No new books or papers on Indian Ferns have appeared, that 

 I know of, since Part I of this paper was written ; but as two or three 

 years before the late Sir Henry Collett's "Flora of Simla" was 

 published I had given him a completer list than he had of the Ferns 

 of his Simla Region, and as I found he had not dealt with the Ferns, 

 as being beyond the scope of his " Flora," though he had hoped to do so 

 in a separate work, I showed the list to Mr. W. Botting Hemsley, who, 

 after Sir Henry Collett's death, was seeing his book through the press, 

 and in his Introduction he gave the list (not here reproduced) with the 

 following mention of the subject : — 



" The Ferns of Simla.' 5 



" The Ferns of Simla are so numerous that the late Sir Henry Coliett 

 never intended to include them in the present work, but he contemplated 

 publishing an account of them in a separate volume. He collected 

 material for this purpose, and 1 have before me a list of seventy-one 

 species collected by him in one season. As may be seen from the 

 Bibliography at p. lxvii, several other persons have made a special 

 study of this class of plants, and Colonel Beddome's Handbook may be 

 mentioned as the best available work for naming the Ferns of Simla. 

 Although descriptions could not be given, I have considered it desirable 

 to append a complete list of the species hitherto discovered in the 

 District of Simla. I ?m indebted to Mr C. W. Hope for this list, and 

 I present it entirely on his authority. In addition to his own very rich 

 collection, it embodies the results of several collectors whose names are 

 not mentioned in connection with the flowering plants. Among them 

 are General Blair, Mr. T. Bliss, Mr. E. W. Trotter, and the late 

 Mr. H. F. Blandford, F.R.S. 



[Here follows the List.] 



" This gives a total of 124 species belonging to twenty-three genera, 

 as against sixteen genera and thirty-seven species in the British Islands, 

 and twenty-seven species in the county of Sussex, which has a larger 

 area than Simla, as here understood — a rich fern flora indeed ! 

 With the exception of the Graminem (133 species) ferns are more 

 numerous than any Natural Order of flowering plants in the Flora of 

 Simla." 



5. In the Introduction I said that my list admitted 212 species, 16 

 of them being new. In the course of revision one species has dropped 

 out and the number is now 21 J . The number of new species has fallen 



