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variety. Mr Bell has a fertile frond from Gaspe with very broad veiny 

 pinnae, deeply incised, but not pinnate. 



C. bulbifera, Bernliardi. — Frond thin, green, lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, bipinnate, bulbiferous towards the apex on the under sur- 

 face ; pinnae oblong- lanceolate, narrowed at the tips ; pinnules oblong- 

 obtuse, incisely toothed ; sori small, not very numerous ; indusium short. 

 Very variable in the size and form of the frond. G. hulhifera, Bern- 

 hardi, A. Gray, J. Sm. Aspidium hulbiferum, Swartz, Schk., Pursh. 

 Aspidium atomarium, Muhl. — Moist swampy woods about Kingston, 

 as Collins's Bay, Kingston M,ills, &c. ; abundant on Judge Malloch's 

 farm, a mile west from Brock ville ; Petit Portage, &c., Gaspe, John 

 Bell, B.A. ; Wolfe Island, A. T. Drummond, B.A. ; Mirwin's woods, 

 Prescott, common, B. Billings, jr. (short form) ; Beloeil Mountain, P. W. 

 Maclagan, M.D. ; rocky banks of the Moira, Belleville, and in cedar 

 swamps and wet woods, very common, J. Macoun ; Ramsay, Rev. J, K. 

 M'Morine, M.A. ; Mountain side, Hamilton, common, Judge Logie ; 

 Black Lead Falls, on limestone rock, W. S. M. D'Urban ; Pied du cap 

 Tourmente, M. L'Abbe Provancher ; Gren ville, C. E., J. Bell ; London, 

 W. Saunders. There are two distinct forms or varieties of this species. 



a. horizontalis. — Frond triangular-lanceolate, broad at base, not more 

 than three or four tim-es longer than broad ; pinnae horizontal. Niagara 

 Falls, within the spray, Collins's Bay, &c. 



(3 Jlagelliformis. — Frond linear, attenuated upwards, very long and 

 narrow, six or seven times longer than broad ; pinnse less horizontal. 

 Frank ville, Montreal, Gaspe, &c. 



Dennst^dtia. 



D. punctilobiila, Moore. — Frond broadly lanceolate, pale green, thin, 

 with a stout rachis, bipinnate; the pinnules pinnatifid ; sori minute, 

 usually one on the anterior basal tooth of each lobe of the pinnule, which 

 is refiexed over the sorus ; the proper Indus i am is pale, cup- shaped, 

 opening at top. Rhizome slender, creeping through the soil ; whole 

 plant glandular-downy. Dennstcedtia (Bernhardi, 1800) punctilobula, 

 Moore, Index Filicum, p. xcvii. Dichsonia punctilobula. Hooker, 

 A. Gray, J. Sm. D. pilosiuscula, Willd , Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. 

 Nephr odium punctilobulum, Michx. Aspidium pimct'dobulum, Swartz. 

 Patania, Presl. Dicksonia pubescens, Schkr Siiolobiuin pilosiusculum, 

 Desv., J. Sm. Gen. Fil.— Pittsburg near Kingston, John Bell, B.A. ; 

 River Rouge, W. S. M. D'Urban ; Montreal, P. W. Maclagan, M.D. ; 

 Prescott, on Dr Jessup's moist pasture land, B. Billings, jr. ; New 

 Brunswick, E. N. Kendal, in Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. ; Ramsay, Rev. 

 J. K. M'Morine. Mr Eaton has mentioned to me that the drying fronds 

 have the odour of new hay. 



WOODSIA. 



W. Ilvensis, R. Br. — Frond lanceolate, usually 4 or 5 inches long, 

 bipinnate, or nearly so, pinnae approximate, pinnules oblong, obtuse, 

 stipe (red), rachis, and whole lower surface of tlie frond clothed with 

 chaffy scales, which are rusty at maturity. Sori usually confluent 



