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Asia, Japan, Cape Colony ; P. polypodiodes, only in South Amer- 

 ica and South Africa. Pteris aquilina is found all round the 

 world, both in the tropics and the temperate zones. It has been 

 reported from the Andes 14 feet high. Pellae gracilis is given 

 from Central Asia; Pellfea atropurpurea from Mexico and the 

 Andes; Woodwardia Virginica, from Bermuda. Asplenium 

 platyneuron is reported from West Indies, Ecuador, Cape Colony; 

 A. fontanum from Europe (pretty generally), Lycia and the 

 Himalayas ; A. Trichomanes, temperate regions of the old world 

 from Britain and the Azores to Himalayas and Japan, South 

 Africa, Australasia, Sandwich Islands and Andes south to Peru ; 

 A. viride, Arctic Europe to Pyrenees, and Himalayas (at 12,000 

 ft.); A. Ruta-muraria, Arctic Europe to Spain, Algiers, Central 

 Asia; A. Filix-fcemina, Europe (generally), Africa, Himalayas (10,- 

 000 to 12,000 ft.), Kamtchatka, Japan, Cuba, Venezuela; A. acros- 

 tichoides, Northeast Asia, Himalayas, Penang. Scolopendrium is 

 frequent in Britain and Europe, Azores, Madeira, the Caucasus, 

 Persia and Japan. Phegopteris Phegopteris, Europe, Greenland, 

 Iceland and Alaska; P. Dryopteris, Europe, Manchuria, Japan, 

 Greenland, Alaska. Dryopteris aculeata, though rare in the 

 United States, is found with its varieties throughout , the world; 

 D. Thelpteris, Europe, Cashmere and Northeast Asia, South 

 Africa, New Zealand; D. fragrans, Caucasus to Kamtchatka; D. 

 cristata, Europe; D. filix-mas, throughout Europe and Asia, Ma- 

 deira, Sandwich Islands; D. spinulosa, Europe, Himalayas. Cys- 

 topteris fragilis, everywhere in Europe and Asia, also Africa, 

 Australasia, Sandwich Islands, South America. Onoclea sensi- 

 bilis, North Asia and Japan; O. Struthiopteris, Europe, North 

 Asia. Woodsia Ilvensis and alpina, Arctic regions and high 

 mountains, temperate Europe and Asia; W. glabella, Norway, 

 Tyrol, Carinthia, Behring's Straits; W. obtusa, Andes. Tricho- 

 manes radicans, Ireland, Wales, Spain, Canaries, Madeira, Fer- 

 nando Po, Angola, Japan, North Hindostan, Polynesia, West In- 

 dies south to Rio Janeiro. Osmunda regalis, Europe, Asia, Africa, 

 Brazil; O. Claytoniana, Himalayas; O. cinnamomea, Mexico, 

 West Indies, Central and South America, Japan, East Asia. — C. 

 K Saunders, Philadelphia. 



— Mr. Alvah A. Eaton, Seabrook, N. H., desires specimens of 

 Botrychium simplex from all localities to compare with a supposed 

 new species. 



