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marked as collected at 7000' alt., even in Kumaun ; but the fern is confused 

 with A^. Filix-mas, var. Sdhimperiana, and I very strongly expect that collectors 

 have mixed the two before distribution : I altogether doubt high-level 

 localities assigned to N. cochleaium." I quite concur. 



[ JV. ricjidum, Desv., was given by Mr. Clarke at p. 523 of his 

 ' Eeview ' as an Indian fern, aud I do not think he gave it up in 

 his later papers. I know the European fern, and I can say that I have 

 seen nothing very like it from the Himalaya. I do not think 

 N. pallidum, Bory, is very near N. rigidvm, though I think it is probably 

 identifiable with the Himalayan N. odontoloma (Moore), Bedd. Bed- 

 dome also had Lastrea rigida as an Indian species in his Handbook. 

 He said it was very near L. Filix-mm elongata, and he did not know 

 any distinguishing character. Since then he must have seen the 

 European N'. rigidum^ for in his Supplement of 1892 he says, under 

 Lastrea rigida, — " All the specimens I formerly referred here I now 

 refer to Filix-7nas elongata, I much doubt if this species is represented 

 in Northern India, at least as distinct from remoia." He then proceeds 

 to treat of Lastrea spimdosa, var. remota, as an Indian fern.] 



[ N. remotum, Hook., Brit. Ferns t. 22 ; N. spimdosmn Desv., . v 

 remotum (A. Br. mh aspidium), Bedd. H. B., p. 262 ; A, remntum, A. Bv. 

 This plant is included by Clarke in his ' Eeview ' as an Indian fern, 

 and by Beddome as mentioned above. As I have never seen Indian 

 specimens which agi'ee with European specimens, and have, moreover, 

 reasons for agreeing with Milde that A^. remotum is a hybrid between 

 N. F.-mas and N. spinidosum, I do not admit this as an Indian species, 

 and have instead given N. Blanfordii n. sp. No. 18, below.] 



[ JV. {Laetrea) spinidosum, Desv., is stated in the ' Synopsis ' to be 

 found in the Western Himalaya ; but neither Clarke nor Beddome 

 corroborates the statement, and I have never seen Indian specimens. 

 It is said to have been collected in the Gilgit District of (Trans-Indus) 

 Kashmir by Colonel Tanner in 1880, at an elevation of 8000' ; but 

 the specimens are only two barren fronds without rhizome. I have 

 my doubts.] 



19. N. Blanfordii n. sp.— Plate XI. (see p. 624 of Vol. JTI.) 



Add '.—Kashmir : Kishenganga Valley, 7-8000', Duthiel892 ; Baltistan, 12-13,000', 

 Duthie 1892 ; " Kashmir' McDonell 1894. 



Punjab x—Hazara Dist.— Eagaa Valley, Dufchie's Colli-. 1899 ; Chamba—J. Marten 

 1897-98 ; Pangi 8o00', Harsukh 1899. 



20. N. odontoloma, Moore (under Lastrea), Index Filicum, MS.; Bedd. 

 F.S.I., 39, t. 114 ; Lastrea Fdix-mas, var. odontolomay Moore, Bedd. Suppt. 

 H. B. 55. N. Filix-mas, Eich., var. 2, ncrmalis, C. E. 519, t. 68, fig. 2. — 



