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(lapascar {liojer). China, Fortune. Soulli Africa, Algoa Bay, Uitcnha<,'C. 

 Sandwich Islands, Mcnziex. Thioiio;lK)iit the temperate parts of North 

 America, east and west side. Guateinahi (willi var. ^.), Skinner. Mexico 

 (var. /3.), Galentti, n. iVMW. Trinidad, Loekhart. Dominica, />r. /mray. 

 Jamaica, Dr. Wright. — A very universally diffused and well-marked species, 

 varying-, however, like many other Ferns, in the general outline and the 

 more or less deeply cut pinnules. 



74. A. JEilh'iopicum.) Linn. ; frond oblong-ovate Iriquadri- 

 pinnate, pinnules sub- or quite meinbranaccous glabrous sub- 

 orbicular suddenly and obliquely cuneate at tlic base into a 

 rather and very slender petiolule, sujierior margin more or 

 less lobed, lobes shallow emarginate, the siiuis or notch of 

 the lobe soriferous, sori rather large 2 — (> on a pinnule, invo- 

 lucres oblong-lunulate, stipes and slender rachis everywhere 

 ebeneous shining and glabrous. (Tab. LXXVII. A.) Linn. 

 Sp. PL p. 1560. IVilld. Sp. PL V. p. 452. Six^arfz, Si/ii. 

 FiL p. 125. Pluk. Aim. x. t. 253,/ 2 {bad). A. thalictroides, 

 IVilld. Herb, in Schimp. Herb. Abyas. n. 19, {i/rrolucres 

 while). A. pellucidum, Mart, et Galeol. FiL Mex. p. 272, 

 /. 19. 



Hal). South Africa, frequent. Tristin d'Acunha, Carmivhuel . Mada- 

 gascar, Dr. Li/all. Abyssinia (exactly resembling in colour and rather firm 

 texture the A. as.nmile of Australia). Neilgherries (Sir F. Adam). South 

 America, not unfrequent; Quito, Jamesow, n. 56 and 209 (pinnules of a 

 firmer texture). Peru, Mathews, n. 3205. Guatemala {Skinner) and Mexico, 

 GaleoUi, n. 65(52 ; Hartweg, n. 1624. Caraccas, Lindeji, n. 81. Brazil, Sellow, 

 Hinds, Boog. Mendoza, Gillies. — Evidently allied to small-pinnulcd spe- 

 cimens of ^. Capillus-Veneris, but truly and constantly distinct ; firstly, in 

 the more orbicular and less sharply and gradually attenuated base of the 

 pinnules, and secondly, in the fructification, the sori here being placed in 

 the sinus of a notch in the lobe, and the involucres quite broad, lunate or 

 reniform (not occupying the whole apex of a lobe). It is true the Cape of 

 Good Hope is the only station assigned for this plant by Willdcnow; but I 

 cannot myself see how the ferns I have here adduced from other localities, 

 both of the Old and New World, can be distinguished from it ; and in order 

 that others may judge of one from a S. American locality, I give a figure of 

 that, considering it to be true ^thiopicum, from Guatemala. 



75. A. assimile, Sw. ; "fronds supradecompound quite gla- 

 brous, pinnides rhombeo-subrotund inciso-crenulate in the 

 anterior margin, sinuses narrowed and soriferous, involucres 

 reniform, rachis and stipes very smooth." Br. — Sw. Syn. FiL 

 p. 125 and 322, /. 3,/. 4. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 453. Br. 

 Prodr. FL Nov. Holl. p. 155. A. trigonum, Labill. Nov. 

 HolL ii. p. 99, l. 248,/. 2. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 453. 



Hab. Van Diemen's Land, Labillardiere, Gunn, J. D. Hooker and 

 others. New South Wales. Port Jackson, Brown and others. Encounter 



