54 SHORT NOTES. 
clothed with bright ferruginous subulate scales; stipites cspitose, 
numerous or few, dependent, 2-4 inches long, thickly clothed with 
long hair-like glossy golden scales; fronds linear-oblong, sub- 
sinuate, 4-10 inches long, + to nearly 1 inch wide, bluntly pointed, 
gradually tapering into the petiole, thickly clothed, particularly 
before maturity, on both surfaces with cuneate scales; texture 
m, rather thickish; veins parallel, nearly 1 line apart, simple 
and forked; fertile frond short, ovate-elliptical, at first folded 
together with even margins, expanding eventually; petioles long 
(No. 6, 1877, Herb. Kew). Infrequent on open banks from 
2500-5000 feet altitude. Distinguished from A. villoswm, Sw., by 
e narrower, thicker, more hairy, barren frond, and difform, 
spoon-shaped, pod-like, fertile frond, and a peculiar astringent 
smell. Considered by Mr. Baker a variety of A. villosum; I, on the 
other hand, look upon it as a peculiar and particularly well-marked 
lan 
a long-winged sinuato-repand tail, having one or more scaly buds 
SHORT NOTES. 
PoramocETon LANcEoLATUS, Sm. (see p. 11).—I have received 
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the following from Prof. ries, of Upsala, concernin 
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en of this plant which I sent to him rec : an 
inform you that this interesting plant is quite di 
P. nigrescens, Fr atter is near to, and probably not distinct 
amplexicaul. In P. lanceolatus they are all narrowed to the base 
or even stalked.—C. C. Basineron. 
Osmunpa RrEGauis, L., IN CaMBRIDGESHIRE.—Osmunda regalis has 
been excluded by Professor Babington from the Cambridgeshire 
: tke: 
not give the locality in his Synopsis nor elsewhere.” But Dent’s 
statement is confirmed indirectly in the second edition of the 
Synopsis, p. 18, where the “ Fungus fontanus purpureus elegans, 
D. Vernon,” is localised “ at Gamlingay, in Cambridgeshire, where 
the Filiw florida grows.” The Osmunda is therefore entitled to a 
place among the extinet plants of the county.—R. A. Pryor. 
