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746. ADIANTUM, Linn., Cen. PI., No. I ISO. 



(MAIDENHAIR.) 



(2987.) A. pedatum, Linn., Sp. PI., 1557. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 121. 

 Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 263. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., 1i., 670. 

 Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 264. Provancher, Fl. Can., 714. Lawson, 

 Can. Nat., i., 270. Watt, Can. Kat., iv., 363. Macoun & Burgess, 

 Ti-ans. Roy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 187. 



A. boreale, Presl, Tent. Pterid., 158. 



Is usually found in rich, damp woods, and outside of Ontario is very 

 local in its distribution. Newport, Hants Co., N.S. (Ball.) Arciii- 

 •bald's Mill, Upper Musquodoboit, Halifax Co., N.S. (Jack.) Upper 

 Eestigouche and Upper St. John; Keswick Eidge, York Co., N.B. 

 (Fowler.) Andover, Victoria Co., N.B. (Say.) Moose Mountain, 

 Carleton Co., N.B. (Bailey.) Quebec, Que. (Sheppard.) St. Joachim 

 and Isle St. Paul, Montreal, Que. (Provancher.) Levis ; Cap Eouge ; 

 and Ste. Eose, Laval Co.. Que. (St. Cyr.) Eiver Eouge, Que. 

 (B' Urban.) Very common throughout Ontario. (Lawson, Macoun, 

 Burgess, &c.) On the plateau of Mount Albert, Shickshock Mountains, 

 Gaspd, Que. ; Vancouver Island, Yale, and other places in Britist 

 Columbia. (Macoun.) Plentiful about Victoi-ia, B.C. (Fletcher, Ander- 

 son.) Kootanie Lake, B.C. (J. Anderson.) Queen Charlotte Islands, 

 B.C. (Dawson.) 



Var. rangiferinum. Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can.,iv., Sect, iv., 11. 



A form with longer stalked pinnules, cleft, on the upper side, into 

 narrow, toothed lobes. At present known only in one locality, viz., 

 shaded rocks overhanging the water, Coldstream, at the base of Mount 

 Finlayson, near Victoria, B.C. (Anderson.) Will probably be found 

 to occur elsewhere on Vancouver Island. 



747. LOMARIA, Wllld. (DEER-FERN.) 



(2988.) L. spicant, Desv., Mag. d. Gesellsch. Naturforsch. Preunde 

 zu Berlin, v., 325. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil., 178. Macoun & 

 Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 188. Burgess, Trans- 

 Eoy. Soc. Can., iv., sect, iv., 12. 



Blechnum boreale, Swartz, Schrad. Journ., ii., 75. Syn. Fil., 115 Pursh, 

 Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 669. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 263. 



Is confined to the coast of British Columbia west of the Coast Eange, 



