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have the lower border markedly convex. Their base, instead of being straight and square, 
is gradually tapering ; the upper edge is deeply cleft into narrow, toothed lobes; and the 
outer extremity is not rounded from above downward, but has its upper margin projecting 
beyond the lower, so as to make the rounding just the reverse. Only a few of the lobes 
are fertile. The accompanying figure of a part of a pinna will probably give a better idea 
of these distinctions. 

Fic.—A. pedatum var. rangiferinum. 
Interesting points about this plant, which I am now trying to determine, refer to the 
frequency of its occurrence and constancy in cultivation. 
Genus VIII—LOMARIA, Willd. 
1.—L. SPICANT, Desv. Reported by Mr. Anderson as common in rich woods near Vic- 
toria, Vancouver Island, B. Col., and along the coast of the mainland. All the specimens 
that I have seen from this locality have the pinne, except the lower reduced ones, acute 
or mucronate instead of obtuse, as is said to be oftenest the case. 
Genus X.—ASPLENIUM, LZ. 
1.—A. VIRIDE, Huds. Clefts of shaded rocks at the mouth of Temiscami River, 
twenty-five miles from the east end of Lake Mistassini, N. E. Terr.—J. M. Macoun. In rich 
soil amongst broken rocks, at Port Simpson on Portland Inlet, Northern B. Col—J. R. 
Anderson. 
2.—A. TRICHOMANES, Z. Amongst broken rocks on Mount Isonhailim, near the 
mouth of Cowichan River, Cowichan District, Vancouver Island, and in Kootenay District, 
B. Col.—J. R. Anderson. 
5.—A. THELYPTEROIDES, Mz. For New Brunswick, where this fern is said to be 
scarce, the following new stations are recorded: “Bass River,—ÆFowler ; Fredericton,— 
Vroom ; Salmon River, Victoria. Co..—Hay.” (Fowler, in Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc. N. B., No. IV.) 
Genus XI—SCOLOPENDRIUM, Smith. 
1.—S. VULGARE, Smith. Three interesting forms, vars. marginatum, ramosum and multi- 
Jidum, of this very variable fern, collected near Woodstock, N. B., have been received from 
Mr. Peter Jack of Halifax, N.S. à 
Var. MARGINATUM, Moore. (Nature Printed British Ferns, II, pp. 139 and 166 ; Hand- 
book of British Ferns, 3rd ed., 198). The following is Mr. Moore’s description :—“ Fronds 
