either of the two botanists. In 1886 H. M. 

 Birdwood 1 wrote a catalogue of the Flora of 

 Matheran, in which he enumerates twelve 

 species of ferns as growing in that place. In 

 1887 2 he published a catalogue of the Flora 

 of Mahableshwar and Matheran mentioning 

 fourteen species as occurring in both places. 

 In a final revision of the same catalogue in 

 1897 the species of ferns found at Mahablesh- 

 war and Matheran 3 amount to thirty-two. 

 The latest and at the same time the richest 

 contribution towards the knowledge of the fern- 

 vegetation of the Bombay Presidency is con- 

 tained in Vol. V of the Journal of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society, where T. R. M. 

 Macpherson 4 gives a list of seventy-five species 

 gathered in North Kanara. Reference is some- 

 times made to the Bombay-ferns in W. 

 Hooker's 4 Species Filicum ' and ' Synopsis 

 Filicum,' in Smith's ' Historia Filicum,' R. H. 

 Beddome's ' Ferns of Southern India,' ' The 

 Ferns of British India,' and especially in his 



1 H. M. Birdwood : A Catalogue of the Flora of Matheran ; in 

 Journal, B.N.H.S., vol. i. p. 203. 



2 H.M. Birdwood : A Catalogue of the Flora of Mahableshwar 

 and Matheran ; in Journal, B.N.H.S., vol. ii, p. 107. 



3 Ibid., vol. x, p. 394. 



4 T.R.M. Macpherson : List of Ferns gathered in North 

 Kanara ; in Journal, B.N.H.S., vol. v, p. 375. 



