198 PTERIS. 



M&dre, Seemanu; Guatemala, Skinner, common European forms ; Pernambuco, 

 Brazil, almost every pinnule regularly pinnatifid, as is so common in the var. j3, 

 but quite glabrous. 



/3. lamujinosa ; — has probably a more extended range than a, especially in warm 

 countries. Braemar, Scotland, A. Croal, in every respect (except in being less 

 luxuriant) resembling the more common tro])ical form of this var. ; that is, 

 nearly all the piinmles regularly pinnatitid, atul very villous beneath. Gottland, 

 Sweden, P. C. Afzelius (Pt. aquilina, var. pubcscens, Afz. fil. in Herb. Nostr.). 

 Madeira, Macgillivray and Milne. Teneriffe, Bourgeau. Tauria, Fischer. Al- 

 geria, Herb. Nostr. Senegambia, Heicdelot, n. 883. Fernando Po, Dr. Voyel, 

 in Capt. Trotter's Niger Expedition, and Barter, in Bai/cie's Second Niger Expe- 

 dition ; pinnules remote, elongated, but not entire, rachises slightly rough, and 

 more or less shaggy with rufous woolly hair. South Africa, most abundant, re- 

 ceived from almost every traveller in the Cape, and of various forms, generally 

 reseudiling our common European Pt. aquiVma in ramification, Brege (Pt. Ca- 

 pensis, Th., a and c) ; some, especially from Armstrong, quite rusty beneath, 

 from the masses of fructification ; and very compact, with close-placed pinnules 

 and segments ; Macalisberg, Dr. Sanderson (common form of Pt. aquilina). 

 Abyssinia, northern side of mountains 8000-9000 feet elev. above the sea, near 

 Genansa, Schimper, Iter Abyssinicum, n. 1322 (named Pt. Capensis, Thunb. = 

 Pt. lanuginosa, b, J. Ag.) and n. 856. India, almost universal : Madras Penin- 

 sula, Wight, n. 89 ; Cochin, Rev. E. Johnson, small, and very thin and membra- 

 naceous, with narrow and imperfect involucres ; Mahalableshwar, Colonel Bates ; 

 Wiingiri, ITohcnacker, Gideon lliomson. Dr. Schmidt ; Dindhighul {TVallich), n. 

 2178 {Pt. Wightiaita, \\a\\.); Concan, Law; Khasia, Simons, Hooker fil. and 

 Thomson, n. 561, alt. 2-3000 feet; Noithern India: Sikkim, subtropical region, 

 Kumaon, T. Thomson. Nepal and Sylbet, TVallich, Cat. n. 101; Pt. terminalis, 

 Wall, and n. 113 (Pt. recurvata, Wall.), Griffith. Gurhwal, etc., elev. 7500- 

 9000 feet. Major Madden, R. Strachey, and J. E. Winterbottom. Mauritius, 

 Wollich, n. 98 (Pt. lanuginosa), and Bory in Sieber, Syn. Fil. n. 76, Gardner, 

 Bojer, Bouton; Bourbon (from Herb. Mus. Par.). Penang, Lady Dalhonsie. 

 Luzon, n. 100, and Isle of Bohol, n. 353, Cuming, Gaud.; Sandwich Islands, 

 Oahu, Seemann, n. 1704. N.W. America, common from Cape Mendocino to Puget 

 Sound, and in the interior of the Columbia, Douglas. Jamaica (//. Shepherd). 



y. caudata; — West Indies: St. Domingo, Plumier ; Cuba, Pwppig, E. Otto, 

 n. 331, Linden, n. 1861; Jamaica, Wiles, Capt. Finlay .- Venezuela, i^tmc^ and 

 Schlim, n. 983 (with many of the superior pinnules strongly decurrent, and bor- 

 dering close upon the following van, Pt. esculenta), but the decurrent bases do 

 not form lobes. 



5. esculent n ; — very abundant in the southern hemisphere. — Woods of the 

 Society Islands, G. Forster (original specimen in my herbarium, which being 

 slightly downy on the costa beneath is marked by Agardh as Pt. arachnoidea). 

 N. Zealand, most abundant, Eraser, A. Cunningham, Colenso, Sinclair, J. D. 

 Hooker; Hoenaki Gulf, Akaroa, Dr. Lyall (one young specimen is quite 

 clothed with rich ferruginous down). Australia, chiefly in the south, Sydney, 

 Sieber, R. Brown, J. D. Hooker, etc. ; Argyll County, yJll. Cunningham ; Vic- 

 toria, Mueller, Robertson, Adamson ; Flinders Bay, Collie. Tasmania, Labil- 

 lardiere, R. Broivn, Lawrence, J. D. Hooker, All. Cunningham, etc. Norfolk 

 Island, Allan Cunningham, Dr. Falconer, V. Thompson, C. J. Simmons. Raoul 

 and Kermadee Isles, /. Macgillivray, n. 943, Milne, n. 71. Feejee Islands, Dr. 

 Harvey. Tropical America : Jamaica, Lunan (on the authority of Agardh). 

 Venezuela, Moi-itz, Fil. n. 49 (Pt. caudata, L.), Fendler, n. 104. Boquete, 

 Veraguas, Seemann, n. 1557. Guiana, Leprieur, C. S. Parker. Galapagos, 

 Capt. Wood, R.N. ; Peru, Pceppig (Pt. arachnoidea, Kze.). Brazil, abundant, 

 Gaudichaud, Sellow, Gardner, n. 2988, Santa Rosa, and Minas Geraes, n. 5303 ; 

 Para, Spruce, n. 32 and 381, Martins (" Pt. campestris, Schrad."), Milne and 



