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is peculiar for shedding all its leaflets in dry weather, leaving nothing to show the presence of the 

 plants but the stems and branches. Herbarium specimens, however carefully dried, drop their leaflets 

 in the same way. This character, the ovate fronds much longer than broad, hardly enlarged basal 

 pinnae, rounded segments, with the margin only slightly incised, well mark the species. It was first 

 gathered by Sloane, who, however failed to discriminate it from tenerum, with which it is mounted 

 in his herbarium, only four leaflets remaining on the fronds. 



27. A continuum, H. B. K. — Stipes tufted, 4-9 in. 1. dark chesnut brown or blackish, deciduously 

 scaly at the very base ; fronds lanceolate-oblong, pendent, 1-lf ft. 1. 4-9 in, w. tripinnate, papyraceous- 

 herbaceous, naked, pale green, rachis and costae polished, costulao filiform ; pinnae numerous, erecto- 

 spreading, approximate or the inferior subdistant, 3-6 in. 1. \-2\ in. w. gradually reduced to the top 

 of the frond, almost sessile by the presence of a reduced leaflet near the axil of the costae and distant 

 from the next above it ; leaflets except the terminal which too, are largest, nearly sessile, not articu- 

 lated, flabellate-cuneate, 2-6 li. w. and d. the sides of the base equal or unequal, the outer margin 

 inciso-lobate, barren denticulate : veins free, flabellate, repeatedly forked ; sori approximate, rather 

 rounded, obreniform, 1-2 to each marginal lobe ; involucres pale, deeply reniform. 



Abundant in situations distant from each other on wet and dry rocky banks ; especially common 

 between Gordon Town and Mavis Bank, St. Andrew. The habit is pendent, the fronds, which are 

 regularly and copiously pinnate and have a beautiful pinkish tinge before maturity, hanging one over 

 the other. Usually the pinnae are deeper on the under than the upper side. The stipites are fragile 

 and easily broken, though not particularly slender. 



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Catalogue of Canadian Plants — Part vi. 

 Musci. By John Macoun — From Geol. and Nat. Hist., Survey of Canada. 



Michigan Flora. By W. J. Beal and C. F. Wheeler — From Authors. 



From U. S. Department of Agriculture : — 



Bulletin No. 13 : Food and Food Adulterants. 

 Bulletin No. 23 : Experiments with Sugar Beets. 

 Bulletin No. 34 : Record of Experiments with Sorghum. 

 Report of Pomologist for 1891. By H. E. Van Deman. 

 Report on Flax culture for Fiber in the United States. 



Hooker's Icones Plantarum. Vol. II. Part I. July. — From the Bentham Trustees : through Kew. 



Blue Books : (1) Correspondence relative to Trade between W. Indies and U. States. 



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Annual Report of Botanical and Afforestation Department of Hong Kong for 1891. — From Superintendent. 



Flora of British India. By Sir J. D. Hooker, Part XVIII. — From the Record Department, India Office and Journ 

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Timehri : Journal of R. Agri. and Com. Soc. of B. Guiana. June, 1892 — From Editor. 

 Sugar Cane. Aug., 1892— From Editor. 



Barbados Agri Gazette and Planter's Journ. — From Society. 



Agri. Gazette of New South Wales, May and June, 1892, and Index to Vol. 1. 1890. — From Director. 

 Farmer and Fruit Grower. Aug. 1892 — From Editor. 



Geology and Agriculture, Part I. ; and Bulletin of the Agri. Experiment Station, Louisiana, No. 17. — From Director. 



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Supplement to Leeward Islands Gazette. July, 1892. — From Superintendent. 



Uitenhage Park and Plantations. Annual Report — From Curator. 



Pharmaceutical Journ. and Trans, July, 1892. — From Secretary. 



Planter's Monthly, Honolulu. July, 1892.— From Editor. 



Chemist and Druggest. July, and Summer Juno, 1892. — From Editor. 



West Indian and Commercial Advertiser. July, 1892. — From Publishor. 



Times of Ceylon. — From Editor. 



