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FERNS COLLECTED BY THE REV. J. HANNINGTON 
EK. TROPICAL AFRICA 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 
Tue following is a list of a small collection of Pteridophyta, 
a recently by the Rev. J. Hannington, of Hurstpierpoint, 
in an expedition made from Zanzibar to the Victoria Nyanza Lake, 
with descriptions of the novelties. The ferns were mainly collected 
in the be as territory, between six and seven degrees south of 
the equat 
cae dichotoma Hook. A, Capillus-veneris L. 
Davallia thecifera H. B. K. A, hispidulum Sw. 
Actiniopteris radiata Link. Pellea hastata Link. 
Preris it ita Retz. P. geraniefolia Link. 
P. aquilina L. P. Doniana Hook. 
albanian: dinntands P.p a ieee Baker. 
Cheilanthes gr ee Schimper Kun 
oblo 
membranous, persistent, with a dentate margin.— ‘ 
vagans Baker, from which it differs by its slender itor chis 
and distant pinnew, the lower subopposite, the ee? alternate. 
Asplenium pumilum Sw. N. molle Des 
. illd. Nephrolepis oordifolia Pres 
Neperieer albo-punctatum Polypodium (Drynaria) Will 
Desv denovit ; 
18* Notochiens tricholepis, n. sp. — Rootstock not seen. 
tipes , castaneous, 2~8 in. long, clothed in the upper part 
with dense adpressed small brown hair-like palex, which cover the 
whole rachis. Lamin Pia: epitarepes bipinnate, 4-5 in. long, 
green and thinly plies above, densely clothed all over beneath 
with a thick coat of brown or drab sper rete inne lanceolate- 
deltoid, sessile, more produced on the lower side, cut down to the 
rachis into close entire obtuse lingulate pinnules 4 in. broad. “Boni 
brown, forming a dense border all round the pinnules. Allied to 
the American N. mollis Kunze 
Ophioglossum reticulatum Z S. Mittenti Baker. 
Selaginella rupestris Spring. Azolla nilotica Dene. 
