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Punjab : Chaml?a,—Dalhonsie 6000', Clarke No. 22540, 1874 ; Sara 10,000', Clarke 

 No. 24111, 1874 : Herb. Hort. Calcutta ; near Langera 6000', and below Sabrundi 

 9500', McDonell 1882 ; Simla Beg. Hattu Mt. 9-10,000', T, Thomson 184T. 



N.-W. P. : Kumaun— J. E. Keid 1886, in Herb, Saharanpur and Kew (Duthie's 

 Nos. 6242 and 6285), 



Nepal W.; Opposite Badhi Village 10-11,000', and Kampa Gadh 12-!3,000', 

 Duthie 1886. 



Forma dentigera. 

 (sp.) Wall,, including probably var. 3, attenuata, Clarke. Plate XXIV, 

 Afghan, : 9-10,000', Aitch., No. 330, 1880, in Herb. Saharanpur : mr. attenuata, 

 on ticket. 

 Trans. Ind. States : Baraul 85-10,000', Harriss 18!]5. 



Kashmir : 6-12,000', T. T., Clarke, Trotter, MacLeod, Gammie, McDonell, Duthie : 

 common. 



b*i Punjab : Sazara— Trotter, in list of Punjab Ferns ; Siran and Kagdn Vys. 

 10,200', Cbor.lO,OOQ', and Niia—Duthie's Collector 1896-97. CAamJ^j— Ravi Valley, 

 8-10,000', McDonell: frequent?; 10,000', J. Marten; Aullu 6-8000', Coventry, 

 Simla Beg. — north face of Kamalhori and Hattu Mts. 88-10,000', Blanford, Hope: 

 Bliss. 



N.-W. P.: i?. Z>, Z)3«#.— Jaunsar— Ghachpur Peak 10,000', Gamble, and Herschel 

 in Herb. Hort. Sahar ; T. Garh.—9-U,QW, Duthie; Xumauti— Milam 11,500' 

 S. and W. 1848; R^lam Vy. 11-13,000', and Byans— Napalcha 12,000',. Duthie. 



DiSTRiB. — (^Forma typica'), America : Sitka and Labrador to Canada, British 

 Columbia, and United States ; Cuba, Caraccas,and Venezuela. Europe : Throughout 

 the continent from Lapland, Russia and Scandinavia to Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, 

 Crete, and the Caucasus. Asia Qforma dentigera') Sikkim 10-13,000', rare : collected 

 there by J. B. Hooker and C. B. Clarlie. Kamschatka, and Japan. Afr. : Azores 

 and Macaronesia ; Algeria; KamerunMts; Abyssinia; Natal. 



In the Synopsis Filicum it is cot expressly stated that the European form of 

 A. Filix-femina has been got in the Himalaya, and the following Indian names 

 are given as synonyms, namely, A. pectinatum^ Wall, A. ienuifrons, Wall., 

 A. gracile Don., A. stramineum, J. Sm., A. tenellunif Wall., and A. proliferum, 

 Moore. Agreeing, as I do, with Clarke and Beddome, that the two first of 

 these plants do not belong to A. Filix-jamina, and observing that in his Supple- 

 ment of 1892 Beddome has put A. stramineum under A. nigripes, and 

 A. tmellum under A. pectinatum^ I find that there are left in the " Synopsis ", 

 as Indian representatives of A. FiUx-femina, only A. gracile Don. and A. proli- 

 ferwn, Moore, of neither of which have I seen specimens in India, collected 

 there. Until a few years ago I agreed with Mr. Clarke that exactly the typical 

 form had not been found in India. But latterly, while I was still there, 

 a comparison of the specimens from Kashmir, Chamba, Kumaun, and West 

 Nepal, enumerated above, with my British specimens mostly collected by myself, 

 oouipelled a change of opiuion, and I decided to count typical A. Filix-femina 



