ON A COLLECTION OF FEKNS MADE IN MADAGASCAR. 3G9 



M. repens, Don. Newclmrcli Marsh, only a few plants. 

 Samolus Valerandi, L. Marshy ground near " Rocken End," in 

 some quantity ; and again in the Undercliff nearer the village of 



Niton. 



"Woods 



Arum italicum, Mill. „ w 



and the Ventnor road. Several plants just flowering on June 5th. 

 Leaves all dead or dying. Plainly distinct from A. maculatum, and 

 yet looking strangely unlike A. italicum as I remember to have 

 seen it in the Riviera, with its singularly- veined leaves and immense 

 widely ventricose spathes ; the leaves in all these Isle of Wight 

 specimens being simply green, and the spathes both shorter and 

 narrower than in A. mamlatum (as it grows in Devon), though 

 decidedly less constricted in the middle. All the plants had yellow 

 spadices and leaves as broad as long, with widely divaricate lobes. 



F I odea canadensis, Mich. In the East Yar, near Bradmg. 



Gymnadenia omopsea, Brown. In the Undercliff, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of " Rocken End," June, 1875. 



Allium rineale, L. The " Red Cliff" in Sandown Bay. 



Garex muricata,h. Near Sandown and in Niton Underclifl; 

 but apparently far less common than C. divulsa. 



C. Boenninyhauseniana , Weihe. After a long search in the New- 

 church (Parsonage Lynch) station I came upon two weak plants ot 

 this singular Carex. The species prevailing around were lamgata, 

 remote (a very slender form), and paniculata ; the last being far the 

 most abundant and very variable, supplying quite a series of torms, 

 from the nearly simple spiked with rather distant spikelets, to the 

 very compound panicled with long, crowded, drooping panicles oi 

 spikelets. 



C. piluUfera, L. 



Whitw 



station where I saw it. 



C. riparia, Curtis. By the East Yar, not fai from its sotm, 

 between Niton and Whitwell ; very fine and m great quantity. 



TrLtia decumbms, Beauv. St. Catherine's Point and neigh- 



b0U Si fr S^ Per, Erequent along the whole coast from 



"Red Cliff" to "Rocken End." -.,.«.* ^ i „ 



ScUrZb* procumbent, Beauv. St. Helen's Spit. One large 



plant was all that I observed. . 



1 AsJLium marimm, L. South coast One plant (and I feai 

 only one) still left, and putting forth fresh fronds on 9th June. 



ON A COLLECTION OF FERNS MADE BY LANGLEY 



KITCHING, ESQ., IN MADAGASCAR. 



By J. G. Baker, E.R.S. 



(Concluded from p. HMO.) 



RR* Polypodium (Phegopteris) Sharpianum, Baker, n. sp. 

 Frond ample 8-4-pinnatifid, moderately firm m texture, green on 

 WhsuSaceL deiely pubescent beneath; rachises bright pale 



