Original Articles. 
A NEW SPECIES OF XEROTUS. 
By W. G. Smira, F.L.S. 
(Tas. 187.) 
ROTUS SANGUINEUS, sp. nov.—Pileus coriaceo-membranaceous, dry, 
+ abannee extremely thin, campanulate, depressed, radiato-sulcate 
and lacunose within and without near attachment of stem; margin 
witer dentate. Stem rigid, hollow, compressed, black without, 
and ssl lined within with a a yellowish-white m 
fo, Hymenophorum continuous with the stem. Gills reduced ini a 
few very distant, diosa us, almost obsolete folds. Spores white, 
round, very small, -0001 inch in diameter. 
This remarkable ee of a bes! rare an was collected by Mr. 
Shuttleworth, Mr. Bull’s collector, on stum on the ground in the 
State of San tander, United States. "of Columbia, 8. agra rt any 
elevation of 5-6000 ft., the temperature being 55° F. Th whole _ 
plant revives with moisture ; it is tasteless. 
NEW FERNS FROM THE ANDES OF QUITO. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.L.S. 
I nave lately been yee in the rage? of a fine collection of 
Ferns gathered in the Andes of Quito by Father P. L. Sodiro. 
cludes ee about 300 species, of which the following at are either 
new or imperfectly known and not admitted as distinct in the 
‘* Synopsis = Filieun,” or in the case of those which Thave not de- 
scribed are,very rare species or new to Ecuador. e numbers pre- 
fixed to the names indicate the position of the plants in the sequence 
of * ae eng 
*, Hemrreria Firma, Baker, n.sp.—Frond ample, tripinnatifid ; 
ae cphaneas neither sealy nor prickly, densely pilose on the 
eal rag aed and glossy beneath. Pinne oblong-lanceolate, 
14-2 fi g, 6-8 inches broad. Pi é 
son ea a the base, 3-4 inches fang, 8-} inch broad, cut. 
down to a distinct wing into close lanceolate eniinilaba corer 
acute segments 2 inch broad. exture subcoriaceous ; 
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