430 Scientific Intelligence. 
osum, by Dr. Kellogg of San Francisco. No mention is made of the 
Californian P. faleatum Kellogg, an older name than P. pi eli ome Ea- 
ton, nor is the fact noted that besides P. awreum two other West In- 
dian forms, P, Plumula or P. pectinatum and P. Phyjllitidis have been 
collected in Southern shia a 
Fol ; aime ol: m (which as here arranged peppers: Suborder 
, Polypodiee) is Subordes X, Grammitidece, with eleven genera. 
Jamesonia, the first of them, is reduced to the original J. phere of 
the Andes. Wothochlena has twenty-seven species, of which five, WV. 
sinuata, ferruginea, candida, dealbata, ‘and Fendleri, occur in the region 
ay under the name of unghuhnii. tant is extended 
so as to include sige nominal Sear and not less than seventy-four 
species. This genus is most widely known fete the gold “~ — 
ferns of the aiherralocien, G. sulphurea, calomelanos, etc. G. t 
laris, one of the most golden of them all, is, may appropriately, a heh 
zen of California. G. podophylla Hook., species, is doubtfully 
identified with Mr. Charles Wright's No. 819 froth New Mexico. Brainea, 
Meniscium, and Antrophyum, do not occur in the United States. best 
taria lineata is found in Florida. Tenitis, Drymoglossum, and Hem 
er 
which Fée has made nineteen genera, Moore seventeen, and even the 
careful Mettenius not less than six, is here a saa into tw o,—Acrosti- 
chum, of one hundred and sixty-seven species, aud Platycerium of five. 
One species, A. aureum, is found on the coast of Florida, and in similar 
r sec- 
tions than this; and the arrangement here adopted has = saat aa 
of being intelligible and convenien 
In an appen ndix is given the Cyatheaceous genus Matonia, before 
ie The fifth volume contains the usual index i species and an 
tribes, suborders and genera to the whole w 
ee and useful work, which the ve ose uthor commenced 
more than twenty years ago, is now happily elite: but it will give 
= to all aiedonte of Ferns to learn by a note at the end of the vo 
ar aiming a well-earned leisure—he “is sei if 
life and health Ss spared him to aie ish, a volume, to be entitled 
‘Synopsis Firicum,’ with brief characters of ‘the se sections, genera, and 
species of Ferns  (omiting all really dubious ones), with general habitats, 
refe ev: nee, for synonyms, more full localities ay 
the pages of the present work ; 
progress Ae" 
e, undacee, Marattiacee, and Ophio- 
a needful supplementary volume to the 
