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which suggestion does not seem to have been adopted by any 

 writer on the subject. Here we ha.\e Lomaria Spicmit, Blechnum 

 Spicant, Ckmunda Spicant, Onoclea Spicant, Asplenium Spicant, 

 Acrostichum Spicant, Struthiopteris Spicant, etc. 



Another species of this genus, L. alpina, has recently been re- 

 corded (see ' Phytologist/ vol. iii. p. 157, May 1859) as a British 

 or rather a Scottish plant (for its locality is stated as not more 

 than twenty miles from Killin, in Breadalbane) . The range of 

 this doubtful British stranger (see p. ] 6) is as follows : — " Hab. 

 (Is fou.nd in) temperate and cold regions of the southern hemi- 

 sphere, apparently first discovered by Commerson, in the Straits 

 of Magellan, where it is very abundant^ as well as on Hermite 

 Island (/. D. Hooker), Cape Horn^ and along the west coast of 

 Patagonia, Valdivia [Lechler, PI. Chil. n. 196) and as far north 

 as Concepcion, in Chili. ^' It has also been seen in the islands 

 of Juan Fernandez, Falkland, Tristan d^Acunha, Tasmania, etc. 

 Its vertical range is from the coast-line to 6,000 feet. It circum- 

 scribes the globe fromlat. 55 S. to 35 S. where there is land, and 

 has a more extensive range in the southern than the British 

 species L. Spicant has in the northern hemisphere. (See p. 17.) 



On p. 16 there is. a notice of a variety of the latter, or a 

 monstrosity, found in West Derbyshire, near Liverpool, by Mr. 

 Henry Robson. There is no part of Derbyshire near Liverpool. 

 It can scarcely, in the common acceptation of nea7', be said to be 

 near Manchester. Is the latter meant, and the former printed 

 by mistake ? Manchester is not near Liverpool unless a space of 

 thirty miles distant qualifies a place for bearing the epithet near. 

 A native of Godalming, to spite the natives of Guildford, ad- 

 dressed a letter to an indweller of the latter town, — "To A. B., 

 Guildford, near Godalming.'^ The distance is only four miles. It 

 is forty miles from Derbyshire to Liverpool. 



Index Filicum. A Synopsis, with Characters of the Genera and 

 an Enumeration of the Species of Ferns, with Synonyms, 

 References, etc. etc. By Thomas Moore, F.L.S., F.H.S., 

 Author of the ' Handbook of British Ferns,^ the ' Ferns of 

 Great Britain and Ireland,^ etc., and Curator of the Chelsea 

 Botanic Garden. Part VI. London : Pamplin. 



In this last published Part of this useful work on Ferns the 



