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SCHIZ^A, Smith. 



Fertile segments 4 to 8, sub-erect. tenella, Klf. 



Near a brook, Umtwalumi, gathered by 

 McKen only, 

 t'ertile segments 10 to 15, nearly horizontal. pectikata, Sm. 



Damp hiU-side, Inanda, (Wood). 



Anemia, Su\ 



Barren and fertile fronds separate from each other. Dregeana, Kze. 

 Jn drier parts of bush, Mdlands. 



MOHRIA, Sw. 

 Fronds bipinnate, sori marginal. caffrorcm, Desi\ 



All over the Colony. 



Lygodium, Sw. 

 Much branched, barren, pinn* small. Capsules 



forming spikes along edge of fertile frond, scandens, Siv. 

 In wood, Zululand. 



F. MARATTIACE^. 



Marattia, 6'w. 



Fronds 6 to 15 feet long, usually bipinnate, fRAXinea, 8m. 



In shade. Coast to 3000 feet alt. 



G. OPHIOGLOSSACE^. 

 Ophioglossum, Litm. 

 Frond ovate, tapering to base, mibrib more or less 



VULGATDM, Linn. 

 reticulatum, lAnn. 



distinct. 



Coast districts only. 

 Frond cordate at base, without distinct mibrib. 



Ferns unknown to us. 

 Cheilanthes parviloba, Su\ In his " Ferns of South Africa," Sim 



includes this species as having been collected by Rev. Buchanan 



in upland bush, but we have not met with it, and have no 



specimen. 

 Asplenium Gueinzianum, Metl . Said to have been collected by 



Gueinzius, locality not given, we do not know it. 

 Asplenium solidum, Kunze, Said to have been gathered by McKen 



near Peel's, Umlaas, but is quite unknown to us. 

 Nephrodium Mauritian um, Fee. Collected by Rev. .1. Buchanan near 



head of Bay of Natal, not seen by us. It nearly resembles N. 



Bergianuni, Baker ^ but differs by its veinlets, two or more of 



which on pairs of neighbouring pinnules meeting at the base. 

 Nephi'odimn Filix-mas, hUch, var. elongatum. This species lias been 



included by collectors, ourselves included, with N. iucequale, 



from which it differs simply by triangidar outline of the frond, 



the lower pinnae being the largest. 



