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Hook., Grammitis, Sw.), is eA'icleutly a true species of the genus 

 TiMuitis ; the sori, though generally interrui^tecl, heing often con- 

 fluent and continuous. I propose that it shall be known as 

 Taenitis Swartzii. 



4.* AcROSTicHUM GRAMiNEUM, J 671111 a7} , u. sp. — Eliizome slender, 

 i inch thick, creeping, naked, dark-coloured ; fronds scattered hut 

 copious, forming spreading grass-like patches, 5 to 8 inches high, 

 linear acuminate, decurrent into the long (2 to 3 inches) slender i 



petiole, f inch wide ; surfaces naked throughout, glossy, viscid, 

 pale green ; veins immersed, close, simple or forked, terminating 

 within the edge in clavate apices ; texture firm ; fertile fronds 

 smaller, on longer petioles, but similar in shape. No. 27, Herb. 

 Kew, 1876. "A. simplex, Sw., var." Baker MSS. A much 

 smaller and more delicate plant than dwplex, with a very different 

 habit. 



Acrostichum viscoswn, Sw., var. ohtusum, Jenman : fronds long, 

 narrow, obtuse ; racliis very prominent ; stipites long, caespitose. 

 No. 11, Herb. Kew, 1878. From the rapid elongation of the 

 caudex, the long, slender stipes ap^Dressed thereto, splint -like, give 

 specimens of this plant a peculiar ap)pearance. 



Acrostichum Sartorii, Liebm. 



16.* Acrostichum pallidum.. Baker MSS., n. sp. — Caudex stout, 

 woody, 1 inch thick, densely clothed wdth long attenuated, loose, 

 fibriliose, undulate, black scales, wdiich are i inch long, i line ^ 

 wude ; stipites numerous, caespitose, 5 to 10 inches long, slenderish, 

 flattened on the upper side and channelled ; fronds pendent, 

 6 to 14 inches long, 1^ to 2 inches wide, apex acuminate, base 

 rounded (in large specimens subcordate) ; texture coriaceous ; 

 margins rejDand, edge cartilaginous ; veins once or twice forked, 

 about 1 line apart, the dark-coloured bases curved ; surfaces naked ; 

 colour throughout pale green ; fertile fronds similar in shape, but 

 smaller and on longer stipes. No. 8, Herb. Kew, 1878. 



Acrostichum nicotianccfoliam., Sw., var. saxicolum, Jenman : 

 rhizome epigaBous, clothed with scales, creeping on rocks ; stipes 

 and rachis fibrillous scaly ; pinnae oblong-oval, fertile, larger and 

 more in number than in the type ; texture thinner. No. 7, Herb. 

 Kew, 1878. 



Lyf/odium venustum, Sw. 



Ophioylossum vidgatum, L. 



THE PLANTS OF TOEY ISLAND, COUNTY DONEGAL. 



By E. M. Baerington, B.A., LL.B. 



On the 2nd July, 1877, I landed on the remote Island of Tory, 

 which lies about nine miles off the north-west coast of Donegal. I 

 spent nearly a w^eek there in company with a friend, Mr. A. Webb, 

 and examined its flora each day carefully. Notes which I then 

 made have been lying by ever since, but the publication of his 

 interesting paper on the Flora of North-Western Donegal by my 



