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areole without any free included veinlets. Sorus broad, continuous. 
Indusium glabrous.—Very near P. lanceefolia Agardh. 
Asplenium hirtum Kaulf 
A, sylvaticum Presl. 
Nephrodium albo- a Desy. 
N. subquinquefidum H 
. Arbuscula Desv. _New to Madagascar. 
N. cucullatum Bake 
NN. truncatum Pre ae 
N, subtriphyllum Baker. New to Madagascar 
62.* Polypodium (Gontoprsris) oligophlebium, n. sp. Root- 
ns vee ; oer -creeping, } in. diam., wit a few lanceolate 
mbranous pales. Stipe slender, cekad: = in. long. 
frond Shae, sity pinnate, sacsdieeais ly firm, green, glabrous, a 
foot long, 9-10 in. broad. Pinne 5-6-jugate, stant, sere: 
lanceolate, obscurely crenate, an inch broad at the m 
veins distinct, renee pales veinlets 3-4-jugate. Bae sm all, 
globose, superficial—_Near the Queensland P. pecilophlebium Hook. 
ro 
ow sorbifolium L. 
A, virens Wall. 
A, Humblotii Baker 
godium lanceolatum Desv. 
Osmunda regalis 
hioglossum nudicaule L, fil. 
O. pendulum Li. 
EPILOBIUM NOTES FOR 1890. 
By roe Rev. E. 8. Marssaun, M.A., F.L.8. 
In the South = Foe ent last season was an unfavourable one 
for this pone mild winter was followed by a and ungenial 
spring, ani me spots w. = I had observed hundreds of: plants 
in 1889 I ave tacd but tens. Mould (or fungoid growth) was also 
resent to a remarkable degree, often so much so as to render 
identification and collection impossible, particularly on light sandy 
soils, which constitute a large part of my own neighbourhood. M 
leisure has also been less than in previous years, and T have paid 
Seo anb 
interesting law one or two of them new to this country. Messrs, 
e, Hiern iller, and Dr. Buchanan White have sent me 
eakoens for determination Prof. Haussknecht has again been 
kind enough to r on a selection from my gatherings. An 
asterisk denotes a pon believed to be new to Britain 
Epriosium parvirLorum Schreb. A state from Ainderby, N.W. 
Yorks, with pure white flowers (which I never saw before), was 
gathered by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers and his son. A similar 
