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either of the two botanists. In 1886 H. M. 
Birdwood* wrote a catalogue of the Flora of 
Matheran, in which he enumerates twelve 
species of ferns as growing in that place. In 
1887 he published a catalogue of the Flora 
of Mahableshwar and Matheran mentioning 
fourteen speciés as occurring in both places. 
In a final revision of the same catalogue in 
1897 the species of ferns found at Mahablesh- 
war and Matheran*, amount to thirty-two. 
The latest and at the same time the richest 
contribution towards the knowledge of the fern- 
vegetation of the Bombay Presidency is con- 
tained in Vol. V of the Journal of the Bombay 
Natural History Society, where T.R. M. 
Macpherson * gives a list of seventy-five species 
gathered in North Kanara. Reference is some- 
times made to the Bombay-ferns in W. 
Hooker’s ‘Species Filicum’ and ‘ Synopsis 
Filicum,’ in Smith’s ‘ Historia Filicum,’ R. H. 
Beddome’s ‘Ferns of Southern India,’ ‘ The 
Ferns of British India,’ and especially in his 
1H. M. Birdwood: A Catalogue of the Flora of Matheran; in 
Journal, B.N.H.S., vol. i, p. 203. 
2 H.M. Birdwood: A Catalogue of the Flora of Mahableshwar 
and Matheran ; in Journal, B.N.H.S., vol. ii, p. 107. 
3 Ibid., vol, x, p. 394. 
47.R.M. Macpherson: List of Ferns gathered in North 
Kanara; in Journal, B.N.H.S., vol. v, p. 375. 
