ON A COLLECTION OF CHINESE FERNS. 291 



O:^ A COLLECTIOK OE CHIJSTESE EERNS GATHERED EY 



MR. J. E. QUEKETT. 



Br J. G. Baker. 



To the kindness of Mrs. C. E. White, of Ealing, I owe the oppor- 

 tunity of examining a small collection of ferns made in three different 

 stations in China by her relative Mr. J. F. Quekett, of Shanghai. 

 Only one of them is a new species, but in some of the others it gives 

 an extension of their geographical range. The list is as follows : — 



I. Snowy Yalley, province of Chekiang, altitude 1800-2600 feet. 

 Davallia bullata, Wall. 

 Pteris cretica, Z. 



,, semipinnata, X. 

 Woodwardia japonica, Sw. 

 Aspidium lepidocaulon, Hook. 



,, aristatum, Sw. 

 Asplenium pekinense, Hance. 



,, (Diplazium) Wiclmia), Meit. 



Polypodium ovatum, Wall. 

 ,, niponicum, Kett. 



,, normale, D. Don. 



„ Lingua, Sw. 



,, fissum, Baker. A dwarf variety, or perhaps an allied 



new species. 

 Ly cop odium clavatum, L. 

 Selaginella involvens, Spring. 

 ,, caulescens. Spring. 



II. Phoenix Hills (Eeng-wang-shan), province of Kiang-si. 

 Pteris semipinnata, L. 

 ,, serrulata, L.fil, 

 Asplenium incisum, Thunb. 



„ Eilix-foemina, Bernh. 



Aspidium falcatum, Sw. 

 Nephrodium gracilescens, Hook. 



,, decursivo-pinnatum, Baker. 

 ,, Eilix-mas, Besv. 

 ,, erythrosorum. Hook. 



,, oLiGOPHLEBiuM, Baker j n. sp., next iV. setigerum, 

 Stem slender, stramineous, naked, as is also the primary rachis. v^ 

 Frond lanceolate-deltoid tripinnatifid, 1^ foot long, membra- 

 neous in texture, quite free from either scales or bristles. 

 Three or four lower pinnae subequal, just stalked, oblong-lanceolate, 

 4-5 inches long by half as broad, their rachis narrowly winged, their 

 pinnules lanceolate, all sessile, the lower ones reduced. Ultimate 

 (tertiary) segments ligulate, blunt, close, denticulate, the largest 2 lines 

 long by scarcely a line broad, flat. Yeining pinnate in the tertiary 

 segments, the veinlets 3-4 in number, distant, distinct. Sori minute 

 submarginal, with a minute evanescent glabrous involucre. Between 

 iY Bortjanum and setigerum. Resembling most the latter in cutting 

 and in its minute sori and evanescent involucre, but differing by its 

 entirely naked lamina and rachis and fewer more distant veinlets. 



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