14 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF MIDDLESEX. 
of the Indian and Ceylon plant. The stem is closed at its base rt 
in its lower half by 3-4 oo lanceolate scarious scales 0 
let about three inches in length, and the leaves are of a 
firmer more pergameous texture pea in the others I am acquainted 
aig “Tf not really referable to Don’s species, it is undoubtedly new. 
17. Asplenium Griffithianum Hook. — In monte Tai-mo-shan, 
adversus Hongkong, exeunte Apr. 1885, legit A. B. Westland. 
A native of the Himalayas, Mishmni, the Mountains of Bengal and 
Tennaserim, but now first recorded from Chi 
18. Gymnogramme Griffithii ete var. pinnatifida. — Ad Foo- 
chow, Maio 1857, legit W. Gre In monte Tai-mo-shan, 
adversus Hongkong, exeunte versu A rg cok Apr. 1885, detexit A. B. 
Westland. Only, I believe, hitherto known from the Bengal 
ite Mr 
species collected under the name of Gymnogramme in that aaa 
some, as I consider them, belonging to Polypodium, so to 
Aspidium, and others forming genera sui juris, it is tolerably olaks 
that Hemionitis, as the late Sir W. Hooker and Mr. Baker limit it, 
t a patient study of both Gyynogrannen atid Acrostichee will 
lead to somudenanis changes les under discussion and 
its immediate allies, rieys previously eeetod - ol Sete by 
uhn, are now exclud e tribe 
= ne cahea sagens i acter “Tai. -mo-shan, ad- 
versu Hongkong, m. Sept. 1885, leg. A. B. Westland. A 
ep 
widely distributed fern, not previously, I believe, recorded from 
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NOTES ON THE FLORA OF MIDDLESEX. 
By Jonny Benzow, F.L.S. 
Tue following notes embody the results of a series of rambles 
through Middlesex last autumn 
Only those — heneeer stated to be rare in Messrs. 
Trimen and Dyer’ s ‘Flora,’ on nego: in stations not given in 
that _ are included in the 1 
excursion, it must ‘a Sechene did not yield the un- 
qualified pleasure ae for it disclosed to me more clearly 
t. e half e county is a vast cabbage- 
the other a ngs building-plot, wherein the ubiquitous 
acerig is myers encroaching on habitats once thought to be 
far out of reach. 
