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gathered on the Government Cinchona Plantation, where it is abundant, 

 and at Portland Gap. A fine robust species, with usually very short 

 stipites ; well distinguished by its dark clear colouring, and flat, broad 

 segments with medial sori. The veins and ribs of live plants are 

 pellucid. The habit is that of Filix-mas, and is stiff, shuttle-cock- 

 like. The flat and broader segments distinguish it from any of the 

 following. — Endemic. 



15. N. nimbatum, Jenm., Rootstock stoutish, erect or sub-erect, the 

 scales brown and rather small ; stipites few, erect, 1-1J ft 1. channelled 

 rather sparsely deciduously scaly, chiefly at the base, grayish upwards 

 with fine down, as is also the strong channelled rachis ; fronds 

 bipinnatifid ft. 1 9-12 in. w., reduced at the base to minute 

 remote auricles ; chartaceous, pellucid, dark green above, beneath paler, 

 both surfaces including rachis and ribs grayish pubescent ; pinnae nu- 

 merous, distant, alternate, spreading often horizontally, sessile, central 

 ones 5-8 in. 1. about 1 in. w., the apex long-acuminate and serrate- 

 entire, cut down | ths.-f ths. to the costae into flat rounded straight or 

 subfalcate segments 4-6 li. 1. from the open acule or rounded sinus and 

 \\-2 li. w., with their own width between them at the apex ; margins 

 entire ; veins simple, 8-10 to a side ; sori small, medial ; involucres 

 pale, minute, ciliate and fringed with setae, fugacious. — Gard. Chron. 

 Mar. 3rd, 1894. 



Abundant in places on banks skirting forests at 4,000 ft. altitude; 

 gathered at Moody's Gap. It is clothed throughout with fine micro- 

 scopic gray puberulae. The scales of the rootstock ascend the greater 

 length of the stipites, scattered and sparsely, but are soon deciduous. 

 The pinnae are remote and spread at a wide angle, dwindling at the 

 base to minute segments. The upper ones are broadest at the base, 

 but the lower are not ; all are sessile. They are cut to within 1-1J 

 line of the costae, and the pinnules are rather dilated at the confluent 

 bases. The texture is thin, but hard when dry. The sori are small 

 and involucres setose- fringed. 



16. N. velleicm, Baker. — Rootstock stout, erect or suberect, densely 

 clothed with long narrowly-linear very dark-brown scales ; stipites 

 caespitose, erect,, 4-8 in 1., strong, clothed at the base like the root- 

 stock, and upwards densely, as also the rachis and costae, with matted 

 and fibrillo8e fulvous or reddish vestiture ; frond 1^-2 ft. 1. 5-9 in. w., 

 not or hardly, narrowed at the base, oblong-lanceolate, the barren 

 usually broader in the parts than the fertile ; thinly chartaceous, pel- 

 lucid, upper surface dark or bright green, naked ; under pale, grayish, 

 scaly on the rib ; pinnae spreading distant or sub-distant below and 

 stipitate, oblong lanceolate, widest at the base and tapering to the point, 

 which is usually bluntish, 3-4 in. 1., f-1 in. w., pinnatifid almost to 

 the costae, segments oblong, sub-falcate, blunt or rounded, 3-7 li. 1., 1-2 

 li. br., contiguous or with an open space and rounded sinus between 

 nearly or quite their own width, adnate-decurrent and slightly con- 

 fluent at the base ; margins entire, crenate or dentate ; veins sub-dis- 

 tant, 6-8 to a side, simple or forked, sori copious, medial, or nearer the 

 midrib, involucres small, scaly fugacious. — Hook. Sp. Fil. vol. 4, t. 

 246. Aspidium aureovestitum, Gr. 



Common in forests on the Manchester mountains at 2,00 J ft. alti- 

 tude. A very clearly marked plant, not resembling closely any other 



