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. ar. d. africana Desv. — A. guineensis Schum. — A. decomposita 
Zoll. — A. japonica Franch. & Savat. — Salvinia imbricata Roxb.— 
Fronds smaller, deltoid, with fewer more distant, more compound 
branches, 
_ Hab. The type in Australia; the variety, which approximates 
— towards 4. caroliniana, widely spread in Tropical Asia an 
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| nodes. Leaf lobes ovate, often acute, conspicuously Macro- 
) Spore crowned with many float-corpuseles, its cuticle finely granu- 
lated and beset with a few clavate papille. sule f 
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general habit from the other species. 
(To be continued.) 
JOHN ZIER, F.L.S. 
By James Brirren, F.L.S. 
Tux plants collected by Archibald Menzies and acerpranogs: 
th Sag: 
disposition of these plants; and on a recent visit to Edinburgh, he, 
by the kindness of Professor Duns, had the opportunity of ex- 
acquiremen 
gpa plants. With the specimens was enclosed a parcel of 
BE. en 
* This was bequeathed by Menzies to the Edinburgh Botanic Gar en, where, 
Dr. Macfarlane kindly i fd me, it is sti It consists chiefly of 
Cryptogams, Graminee, and Cyperac on sheets of an 8vo size, the 
