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HAWAIIAN GUIDE BOOK. 



Annual rainfall at Hilo , 180.00 



Annual average of rainfall in Eastern United States 35.00 



Annual average of rainfall in the tropics '. 95.00 



Number of days in which rain fell in Honolulu, during 1866, 98. 



HAWAIIAN EEKNS. 

 The flora indigenous to these islands is not numerous, 

 though there are some choice wild flowers found in the 

 mountains. Nearly all the heautiful flowers seen in 

 our gardens and some of those growing wild are im- 

 ported. Of ferns, mosses, lichens, and alga?, this 

 group possesses as fine varieties as any part of the 

 world, its varied climate and the high altitude of its 

 mountains furnishing a home for many not existing in 

 other groups of lower land. Mr. Mann enumerates 115 

 varieties of ferns found by him, but it is believed that the 

 whole numbers about two hundred. Mr. E. Bailey, of 

 Wailuku, Maui, has prepared the following catalogue of 

 such as he has collected and of which he has specimens, 

 numbering 121. As his collection embraces chiefly those 

 growing on that island, which by the way, are among 

 the finest in the group, it will doubtless be enlarged 

 after research on the other islands of this group : 



Catalogue of Hawaiian Ferns. 

 Prepared by Edward Bailey, Wailuku, Maui. 

 Auiantum, capillus Veneris. 



Asplenium, nidus, trichomanes, nionanthecaum, fragile, Ma- 

 craei, erectum, resectum, geuimifernm, obtusatum,. contiguum, 

 falcatum, eundatnm, horridum, deparioides, sylvaticum, adiantum 

 nigrum, dissectum, rhizophyllum, furcatum, flaccidum, afflne, niti- 

 dum, aspidioidcs, brevissorum, Arnottii, Saudwichianum. N. B. — 

 Two species, of which one has three varieties, must, 1 think, come 

 under another genus ; while several specie* of asplenium are either 

 unnamed, or the names to which they belong are badly described. 



