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ORDER, FILICES. 



1. Cysloptcris fragilis. (L. Sp. 1553.) Brittle Bladder Fern. 

 Lebanon, 6,000 feet. Area, world-wide, except lowlands in the 



Tropics, and Australia. 



2. Adiantuin capillus-veiiei-is. L. Sp. 1558. Maiden Hair Fern. 

 In wells, caves, fissures of moist rocks, under cliffs by streams, and 



wherever there is dropping moisture ; in every part of the country except 

 the mountain region, and very abundant. Area, Central and Southern 

 Europe, Asia south of Siberia, Africa, Polynesia, and America, from 

 Florida to the Amazon. 



3. Cheilanthes fragrans. (Desf Fl. Atl. ii., p. 40S, pi. 257.) 



Among rocks in the hill country and Judajan wilderness, Gerizim. 

 Area, Mediterranean region. Canaries, Madeira, Himalayas at 5,000 feet. 



4. Ptcris loiigifolia. L. Sp. 1531. 



Lower slopes and base of Lebanon. Area, tropical and warm tem- 



perate regions all round the world. 



5. Pteris cretica. L. Mantiss. 130. 



Lebanon. Area, Italy, Corsica, South Africa, South Siberia, Japan, 

 Himalayas and Neilgherris, Philippines, Fiji, Sandwich Islands, Florida, 

 Mexico, and Guatemala. 



6. Pteris aquilina. L. Sp. 1533. Bracken. 



Galilee, by the Leontes river, Lebanon. Area, world-wide, from 

 just within the Arctic Circle, through the whole of both Temperate Zones 

 and the Tropics, reaching up to 8,000 feet in tropical mountain regions, 

 attaining on the Andes a height of 14 feet. 



7. Lomaria spicant. (L. Sp. 1522.) Hard Fern. 



Lebanon. Area, all Europe, Northern and Central Asia, Japan, 

 North-west America. 



8. Asplcniiini trichojiiancs. L. Sp. 1540. Common Spleenwort. 

 Lebanon. Area, Europe, Siberia, America, Australia. 



