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SHORT NOTES. 
- aa PLENIUM MARINUM Linn. FouND IN AMERICA aca following 
note answer to the above inquiry, from my former colleague, 
William Fawcett, Esq., Jamaica, . Saal 5 record, mag prevent the 
continuance of an error.— 
Asplenium marinum Linn., re the "ta edition (1753) of the 
Species Plantarum (p. 1081), is the European plant. In the tenth 
edition of the Systema ee p78 age et quotes ee 
figure, Phytologia, tab. 253, fig. 5, as representing the species; but 
in the second edition > the Species Plantar n (1768) he established 
his var. 8, ©: maritimum on Pluken ave , of which he had 
obtained a iisiltonens in the herbarium of "Dr. Patrick Brown which 
Collinson bought for him in 1758 for eight guineas. Plukenet’s 
plant is preserved in Sloane’s herbarium (vol. 99, fol. 21). It is 
A, firmum Kunze. ere is no indication in the volume of its 
locality, but in his Almagestum Plukenet calls it ‘ Filix Tricho- 
manotdes Jamaicensis’’ (p. 9). Brown’s imen is in the Linnean 
Herbarium, where it is named “ Asplenium marinum 12” by Linneus, 
a, 
oon plant is also 4. Laitgetete Kunze. Linneus quotes with a query 
i 33, fi 4 
j ach 
giv distribution as ‘‘ Coasts of the Atlantic from onan Laat 
to St. Helena, and Now Brunswick to South Brazil.” But there 
appears to be no ee _ considering A. mar esse m Linn. as an 
rican plant, while A. firmu to Peru 
Latuyrus patustris L., ~ Guamorcansuire. —I have lately 
received a oe of this lai from Tlaahilien: gathered by 
r. Eve, ord, as — appears to be no satisfactory 
Ss 
Bose igs I haven T I think veges record may be interesting. 
aa a poor one, with two flowers; but Mr. James Seder 
has ee nit, and says I am undoubtedly right i in the nomenclature, 
—Cuar.es Cxoucu., 
