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ON A NEW SPECIES OF HYPODERRIS. 
By CHARLES PRENTICE, Esq. 
While examining a portion of the fern herbarium at the British 
Museum a few days since, I met with what seems undoubtedly a 
second unnamed species of the rare genus Hypoderris, R. Br. It was 
recently (1867) brought from Nicaragua by Dr. Seemann, and pro- 
posing to name it after the discoverer, I send a description and diag- 
nosis. 
Hypoderris Seemanni, mihi. Rhizome short, woody, sending out 
several rather stout, filiform radicles ; stipes from six inches to a foot 
high, brown, with a few jagged, dark brown, narrow scales at the base, 
otherwise quite smooth, with the exception of a scattered scale here 
and there; frond lanceolate, pinnatifid almost to the rachis, along 
which it is decurrent, entire or slightly pinnatifid at the summit ; 
smooth ; sori principally arranged in an intramarginal series, a few 
only being scattered over the under surface of the frond; fertile 
divisions of the frond narrower than the barren ones.—Chontales 
Mountains, Republic of Nicaragua (Seemann! n. 206.) 
As in H. Brownit, the frond is finely cellular under a lens, and the 
peculiar venation is the same in both species; but the smooth stipes, 
the lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid frond, and the arrangement of the 
sori, which are scattered equally over the whole under surface of the 
frond of H. Brownii, constitute a sufficient specific distinction. 
TRANSPORTATION OF SEEDS. h 
A correspondent from the Philippine Islands writes to us:—1 
received a box that had been dispatched from Berlin in February, 
1859, by overland mail, vid Trieste, but got lost during the Italian 
war, and only reached me after sixteen months. It was a large box 
lined with tin, carefully soldered; among its contents were two small 
glass-stoppered bottles, the one filled with moist charcoal-powder, the 
other with moist clay; each contained some bulbs of red hybrid Nym- 
p. from the Royal Botanical Garden in Berlin. Those packed 
n charcoal were spoilt, but two of the four in moist earth had germs 
