260 ON ADIANTUM capillus-junonis. 
I suspect, are states of the same tiling. Var. glabratida (as they may 
be called) differs from glabrata in its small sub-immersed or immersed 
apothecia, and smaller, less obtuse, and narrower spores. 
V. antecellens, Nyl.= F. analeptoides, Nyl. Flora, 1867, p. 130. 
On young trees, Turk Mount and Loughcooter, Galway (Carroll). 
V. achemda, Nyl. = F. rimosicola, Leight.— On thallus of Lecidea 
excentrica, Killarney (Jones) ; Loughcooter, Galway (Carroll). 
V. albmima, Ach. f.— Little Island, Cork (on Arbutus), and killar- 
ney on Ilex (?) (Carroll). 
V. desistens, Nyl. Flora, 1867, p. 180.— Thallus vix ullus propria s ; 
apothecia perithecio integre minuto (diam. 0"! millim.), parte dimulia 
supera convexa prominula ; sporae 8-nae. incolores, fusiformes 3-5-sep- 
tataB, rectse (longit. 0-011-16 millim., crassit. 00003-4 millim.) ; para- 
physes nullas. Iodo gelatina hymenea vinose rubens.— Killarney, on 
holly (Carroll). "Prope V. albissimam locum habeat, sed recedit 
variis notis a stirpe V. epidermidis. 
OX ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-JUNON1S, Rupr. ; WITH DE- 
SCRIPTIONS OP TWO NEW FERNS FROM NORTHERN 
CHINA. 
By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., etc. 
So far as my knowledge extends, no further account of the above 
Fern has ever been given by Dr. Ruprecht than the following brie 
no te :— " Species eximia, A. lunulato, Burm., ut videtur, , proxime 
affinis, sed pinnis minoribus suborbiculatis, infimis suboppositis, stipite 
flaccido, superne subnudo, flagellifonni, apice spiraliter involute- (e 
radicante ?) insignita." This appears at page 49 of his ' D 13 ^ 1 ^ 
Cryptogamarum Yasc. in Imperio Rossico,' published in July, 184 , an 
, the second fasciculus of the ' Beitrage z. Pflanzenkunde aes 
Russischen Reiches,' a very valuable work, but which is, I believe, u 
the hands of but few British botanists. The plant had indee( i °^ 
been met with by Bunge in Northern China, in 1831, and the Fi i«* 
not being included in the list of his plants published at St. Peters uio 
in that year, it had remained so obscure that it was apparently un 
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