NOTES OX SOMERSET PLANTS FOB 1918 181 



JBlechnum Spicaiit With. 1. Exford ; Withypool ; Simonsbath, &c. 

 2 and 3. Combes on Quantock, JV. 



Atliyrium Filix-foemina E,oth. var. ^convexum (Newm.). 1. 

 Common about Exford, Withypool, &c. ! ; 3. Clatworthy ! ; 4. Barley 

 Hill and Castle Neroche, TV. 



Ceferach officinarum Willd. 1. Plentiful in two places near 

 Exford; a few plants at Simonsbath (1000 feet). New for this 

 district, I believe. 



Cystopteris fragilis Bernh. 1. Fine and typical near Exford, at 

 lOoO feet. Extinct at Dulverton, W. 



Folystichiim aculeatiim Both. 6. Whitestannton (type and var. 

 lohatum), W. — P. annulare Presl. 1. Exford. 6. Whitestamiton, 

 W. 



Lastrea montana T. Moore {Oreopteris Presl.). 1. Locally 

 plentiful, especially in lanes, about Exford, With3'pool, and Simons- 

 bath, reaching 1300 feet. 6. Blackwater, near Buckland St. Mary. 



8. One plant, near Westcombe, B. V. S. — L. s2jimdosa Presl. 2 and 

 3. Combes on Quantock, W. — L. cemula Brackenridge. 2. Near 

 Holford, H. Gorder (about two dozen plants). 



Polypodium vulgare L. var. *serratum Willd. 3. West Monk- 

 ton !, R. 



Phegopteris polypodioides Fee. 1. Fine and locally plentiful in 

 a second station near Simonsbath, at about 1300 feet. — P. Pryopteris 

 Fee. 1. On a bank over the Exe ; shown to W. S. Price, 1908. 

 We did not see it in Murray's station, above Landacre Bridge. 



Ophioglossiim vulgatum L. 4. Bickenhall, W. 5. Kingsdon, G. 



E^uisetum jnaximum Lam. 1. Lime Combe, Simonsbath, with a 

 small state of E. sylvaticum L., at lOoO feet. — P. arvense L. var. 

 nemorosum Braun. 3. Adcombe Wood ; 4. Ely Wood, near Cliard, 

 W. — E. palustre L. 1. Frequent on Exmoor !, W. Yar. jjolysta- 

 chyiim AYeigel. 1. Sparingly, with the type, near Codsend, Quarme 

 Valley. Var. nudum Newm. 4. Britty Common ; 6. Culmhead ; 



9. Berrow, W. 



Lycopodium ^elogo L. 6. Bewley Down, W. 



Nitella opaca Agardh. 10. Canal, near Bathanapton, C. S. 



THE AFRICAN SPECIES OF ALLOPHYLUS. 

 Br Edmund O. Bakek, F.L.S. 



(Concluded from p. 160.) 



15. A. toroensis, sp. nov. 



Ftnitex gracilis. Rami teretes, glabri vei fere glabri, ramulis 

 pubescentibus ad A. latefoUolatam Bak. fil. accedens. Folia tri- 

 foliolata, papyracea, glabra, siccitate triste viridia, foliolis inter- 

 mediis margine seri-atis apice acuminatis apice ipso obtusis, supra 

 opacis ellipticis vel elliptice-obovatis basi cuneatis, 12-17 cm. longis, 

 5-6 cm. latis, lateralibus valde intequilateralibus parum minoribus, 

 petiolo communi ±3 cm. longe prsedita. Thyrsi simplices folia 

 supemntes vel subtequantes. multiflori. Flores majusculi in cymulas 



