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This species is easily recognized by the small size of its pale- 

 yellow flowers and its three- to ten-flowered peduncles, which are 

 much longer than the sharply-serrate, ovate, acuminate leaves. 



species Filicum; being Descriptions of all known Ferns. By Sir 

 William J. Hooker, K.H., etc. etc. London: Pamplin. 



It will be gratifying to many of our readers to be informed 

 that Parts XI. and XII. will shortly be published : this is a 

 pledge that this important work is advancing steadily to its ter- 

 mination. 



The greater portion of Part XI. is filled up by the Aspleniecs, 

 and upwards of 130 species of the genus Asplenium are illustrated 

 or verbally described in this part of the work. The other genera 

 and species here entered are Woodwardia and Doodia. 



Our readers are presented with the following extract from p. 95, 

 on the geographical range of Asplenium marinum : — 



"Althougli so common on the rocky coasts of the British Isles as far 

 north as the Orkneys, it is nowhere known as an inhabitant of Germany 

 or Scandinavia, but following the coasts of France and Spain, it extends 

 south to the Canary Islands. It appears in Tangiers, on the AMcan 

 coast, and in the Western Islands of the Mediten-anean. It appears in 

 New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and the West Indies. Though a maritime 

 plant, it is in England, at least, like the Tlcmtago maritima and Armeria 

 maritima, also occasionally foimd on mountains remote from the coast. 

 Some of our specimens from Madeira have the fronds more than a foot 

 long, independent of the stipes. Though variable in the size of the fronds 

 and even in the form and outhne of the pinnae, sometimes elongated and 

 pinnatifid, it is a species easily recognized, especially by its glossy ebeneous 

 stipes." 



A. Trichomanes is the next British species described here. Its 

 range is the following, p. 137, viz. : — 



" On stone walls and rocks, throughout Em'ope, Caucasus, and Tauria, 

 Greece, South Africa, N. S. Wales, Bathui-st, Paramatta, Victoria, ]\Iount 

 Aberdeen ; Persia, GhUan ; E. Indies, Cashmere, Ladak, Mussoorie, and 

 Affghanistan \ in the East, through the range of Hunalaya to Kamaon, 



