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Pacific Islands. Society Islands, mountain forests of Tahiti, Brac/cenritli/n. 

 Loyalty Islands, Sir Geort/e Grey. Volcanic mountain, Tanna, New Hebrides and 

 mountain of Ngau, Fiji group. Raoul, or Sunday Island, one of the Kermadee 

 group, Milne, M'Gillivray : sterile pinuiv, in some specimens, more than a foot 

 lone, very falcate, fertile, eight inches long, hoth finely acuminated. 



VVkst Indies {L. lineata and L. striata, Auct.). Jamaica, Blue Mountain 

 Peak, M-Fadyen, Dr. Alexander. Mount Souffriere, St. \'incent. Rev. L. Gaild- 

 itiff : sterile pinnsc very large and coriaceous, falcate, an inch and a half broad 

 at the base, nearly entire at the margin, fertile pinnules long-cuspidate at the 

 point ; other pinnae are all sterile on one side, the opposite ones with the broad 

 cordate bases only sterile. Dominica, Coulabian Mountains, Dr. Jmrny, n. 83 : 

 often one side of the rachis sterile, the other fertile. Guadaloupc, V Jlerminier 

 (can this be L. robusta, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 69 .' from the same coimtry and 

 gathered by the same person) : fertile pinnaj on one side partially fertile and 

 contracted, while the upper half is broad and sterile, giving an elongated 

 spathnlate form to the pinnae. 



American Continent. Mexico appears to be its northern limit. Totiitla, 

 in thick forests, elev. 3500 to 4500 feet. Cordillera of Vera Cruz ; ordinary 

 form, some leaves a foot lorjg. Martens and Galeotti, n. OiOQ; Linden, m. 66 

 (L. longifolia, Sc/tlec/it. arid Mart, and Galeotti, Fil. Mex. p. 49) ; temperate region 

 of Mexico, Liehinnnn ; L. daiiicacea, Kze. in Linmea, xviii. p. 326 ; Lieb. Fil. AJex. 

 p. 82, and Herb. Nostr. n. 125 (from Liebmann). Our specimen is only a common 

 young form of tlie sterile plant, with more perfect fertile piniise apart ; also L. 

 ensiformis ? and L. falciformis, Liebni. I.e., may be referred here. From the same 

 locality and same elevation, in some respects exactly resembling the L. lonyifolia, 

 Sclilect., we have specimens exhibiting some remarkable ditferenccs : the lotoer 

 sterile pinnaj of a very large specimen are petiolate, and have a large black glossy 

 gland attached to their point of insertion on the rachis (not noticed by the dis- 

 coverer) ; another specimen has nearly all the pinnae fertile in their lower half, 

 the others contracted and fertile only in the middle ; this is L. spectabilis, Liebmann 

 in Herb. Nostr., and in Fil. Mex. p. 83, where the author quotes " Blechnuni 

 (Lomaria) sp. an nova?, Schlecht. Linnaja, v. p. 613; Lomaria Schiediana, Presl, 

 Pteridogr. p. 143, name only, and Lomaria longifolia, Mart, et Gal." Guatemala, 

 Mr. Skinner ; sterile pinnae and partially fertile intermixed. — Columbia, Moritz, 

 n. 300, ordinary form. L. arborescens, Kl. and Karsten, in Herb. Nostr. and in 

 Linnaca, xx. p. 347. West Coast, Moro, and Bay of Choco, Seemann ; Caracas, 

 Birschel, Linden, n. 123 and 245. Merida, Moritz, n. 298 ; rachis and costac beneath 

 clothed with pale scales {L. longifolia and stenopliylla, Kl. in Herb. Nostr.) ; and 

 Bogota, I/olton (same van). Paramos of San Pedro, elev. 10-11,000; Ocaiia, 

 Schlini, n. 307. Venezuela, Sierra Nevada, Funck and ScJdim, w. 1008, and Ilartweg, 

 common form; Tovar, Fendler, n. 118, 119, 121, and 122, varying in size, and 

 remarkable for drying of a bright pale-green colour, perhaps from skill in drying. 

 — Pern, Pappig. Z. ornifolia, Pr. Reliq. Hamk. i. p. 51, and Kze. in Jjinna\T, ix. 

 p. 59, and in Herb. Nostr.; Quebrada of Bilcacota, Mafheivs, n. 980 and 1797, 

 and Ilartweg, n. 1483. — Brazil {L. Brasiliensis, Had. I'll. Bras. p. 50. t. 72 and 

 72 bis, and L. striata, Had. Syn. Fil. Bras. n. 88), Gardner ; Organ Mountains, 

 5934, 5935, and n. 143 ; fertile pinnae mostly apiculatc. South Brazil, Gardner, 

 n. 5305 ; Rio Grande do Sul, Mr. Fox, Sellow. " L. Chilensis, Kaulf.," Klotzsch 

 in Herb. Nostr. Mendoza, Dr. Gillies {L. Gilliesii, Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 

 207 ; Blechnum, Mett. ; Orthogramme, Pr.). — Chili {L. Chilensis, Kaulf. et Auct. 

 Blechiinm, Mett., from Juan Fernandez to the extreme south, Bertero, Cuming, 

 n. 802, Crnickshanks (sterile pinnsc falcate and much waved at the margin), 

 Cajit. Ph. King, Pwppig, Gay, Lechler, PI. Chil. n. 210 and 510, etc. 



After a careful inspection of almost innumerable samples from the various 

 localities indicated, and many of them authentic ones, I have ventured to con- 

 sider the many supposed species of authors identical with Forster's original 



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