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from any real similarity of habit and structure, but because I cannot find a better 

 place, nor have other botanists who have retained it among Ferns. Fee excludes 

 it from true Filices, and Presl from all the Fern alliances, even the Pseudo-FUices, 

 as they are called. Brongniart considers it should rank in the tribe of Gleicheniacece. 

 Brown alludes to it on two occasions, once (I'rodr. Nov. Holl. p. 154) under 

 Pterin, and again (App. to Frankl. Journ. 1. c.) under his Cnjptogramme, next to 

 which it is placed by Desvaux ; and in another place (Plant. Jav. R ar. p. 5) 

 Brown says, " That subgeneric or sectional characters may in several instances 

 be obtained or assisted from the seeds of this Natural Order is not improbable, 

 and in one case, namely, Ceratopteris (or Teleozoma), including Parkeria in that 

 genus, even the generic character (as distinguished, we jjresume, from Pteris and 

 Cryptogranune) appears chiejiy to reside in the seeds, which in their unusual size 

 and peculiar marking or striation entii-ely agree in all the species of the genus, 

 while in the original species the annulus is nearly complete ; and in Parkeria, 

 different from the rest of the genus in no other point whatever, the ring is re- 

 duced to a few faint stria;." Kaulfuss includes it in his Blechnacea', along with 

 Crijptogranime and Lomaria ; J. Smith in his tribe Polypodiea, next after 

 AntrophyiDii ; T. Moore between Schizoea and Osmunda ; Mettenius near Poly- 

 podium, between Lecanopteris and Gymnogramme ; and, lastly, Liebraann, be- 

 tween Cyatheacem and Hymenophylleoe. 



Palisot de Beauvois is probably in error in believing his Pteris cornuta (un- 

 doubtedly Ceratopteris thalictroides) to have been found in salt water. Neither 

 in Africa nor elsewhere is such a locality ascribed to it by any traveller. In 

 the Indian Archipelago this Fern is boiled and eaten by the poor as a vegetable. 



N.B. The present Subord. IV. Pteride^, will be continued and concluded in 

 the early part of our next volume. 



ADDITIONS. 



The following species of Adiantum and of Pellcea, discovered since the print- 

 ing of those two genera was completed, are too important to be omitted in 

 the present volume. The figures referred to will be given in Vol. III. 



After Adiantum asarifolium, p. 2 of this Volume, insert — 

 2*. Adiantum Parishii, Hook. ; small csespitose no dis- 

 tinct caudex, roots few fibrous tomentose, fronds orbicular 

 flabellate membranaceous pellucid, sterile ones crenato-den- 

 tate, fertile ones pauci-(3-5-)lobate, sinuses deep soriferous, 

 veins originating from the base flabellato-divergent repeatedly 

 dichotomous, stipes slender filiform ebeneous-black shining 

 articulated at the summit. (Tab. CXLII. A. in Vol. III.) 

 Hook. Fil. Exot. i. pi. 51. 



Ilab. Malay Peninsula. On a limestone, rocky mountain near Moulmein, 

 called Twa-Kabin, at an elevation of 2000 feet above the sea. Rev. C. S. P. 

 Parish. — This extremely interesting Adiantum, belonging to a small group of 

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