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/Siffl^e— 8-10,000', Trotter ; Si7nla Beg. Jual State, Chor Mt. 10,000', ColJett ; Ridge 

 east of Simla 83-10,000', CoUett, Hope, Bliss ; Bisahir — Kushung Cor Kasong) Forest 

 9500', Lace. 



N..W.P. ; D.B. Z)is*.— Jaunsar : Deoban 9000', Herschel ; T. Garh., Nag Tiba Mt. 

 9000', Mackiuuons ; Ganges Valley 9-12,000' and Jumna Valley 9-10,000', Duthiej-, 

 Brit. Garh. — above Eamri 8-9000', Duthie ; Kumaun — Guinji Pass 8000', Davidson j 

 5 stations 7-10,000', Duthie. 



DiSTEiB.— ,4sm ; N. Ind. (Him.) Bhotan. 



Beddome, in the Supplement to his Handbook, has rightly added to the 

 description — " root-stock creeping, stipes solitary, distant," which character 

 distinguishes this species from the next. So do the scales at base of stipe. In 

 A. Jimbriatum, as the '* Synopsis '' says, these are dark brown : in A.foUosum 

 they are bright chesnut, and much more numerous. 



I have gathered this fern only in the Simla Region, and at the time, follow- 

 ing Blanford, I understood it to be Clarke's A. Atkinsoni, var. Andersoni ;but 

 I never could separate that fern from A. Jimbriatum. Blanford has it under 

 Clarke's variety. 



On a sheet in the Saharanpur Herbarium, from British Garhwal, I find a 

 note by Mr. Duthie— "used by Fahdris (Hill men) as a remedy for snake- 

 bite ". Doubtless : but would it not be as useful to use a snake as a remedy for 

 the bite of a Pahdri ? 



32. A. foliosum, Wall. Cat. 339 (or 359) ; Bedd. Suppt. H. B. 37. 

 " Root stock erect or suberect, stipes approximate ; rhachis with a gland at the 

 axis of the pinnae ; stipes and rhachis often red ; fronds up to 3 feet high ; 

 primary pinnae 5 — 8 inches long, generally about 1^ broad, but varying from 

 f inch to 3 inches ; lowest secondary pinnule on the superior side of the 

 pinnae always more or less elongated and often double the size of the others ; 

 lowest superior lobe of the pinnule also elongated ; sori strictly athyrioid. Bedd. 

 F.B. I., Pi. CCXOV, Wall. Cat. 339, first sheet in Linn. Herb, (the second 

 being Athyriimi macrocarpum). Clarke, pi. 62, tig. 1, {splmropteraides) a good 

 figure of this plant, but scarcely showing the enlarged lowest secondary pinnule 

 at the superior base of the pinnEe which is most characteristic of this fern, 

 Tliis must, I think, rank as a species, being nearer to macrocarpum than to 

 ^mbriatum." 



The above is Colonel Beddome's description. 



PtTNjiB : Chamba—'RAvi Valley— near Langera 6000',McDonell(in Herb. Gamble); 

 Kangra Vy. i?wt— Dbarmsala 10,000', Clarke Nos. 2393-1: and 24361 ; Simla Reg. 

 "above Simla,'' Bates; Kidge east of Simla 8000', yftZe Beddome; between 

 Nagkanda and Baghi 8500', Hope. 



N.-W. P. : Garh.—'Dv. J, L. Stewart ; T. Garh. Nag. Tiba Mt. 9000', Mackinnons 

 1878-79 ; Brit. Garh., 8-9000', Duthie No. 5152, 1885 ; Kumaun— Wallich in Herb. 

 Kew : KalimuQdi Pass 8000', S. and W.; Forest near Sosa 8-9000', Duthie 6255', 1886 ; 

 Summit of Dhaakuri Pass 10,500', Trotter No. 792, 1891; Mangalia Gor— ridge above 

 E4nti, MacLeod 1893. 



