as a native only of Guiana, in his fine work on the plants of 
that country, and wliere so excellent a figure and description 
of it are given, as leave no doubt of its identity with the pre- 
sent plant. 
It was, therefore, particularly gratifying to mc to receive, 
amongst a great number of other botanical rarities, a very per- 
fect specimen of Trichomanes elegans, from the Island of St 
Vincents, in the West Indies, transmitted by my friend the 
Reverend Lansdowne Guilding, F. I.. S., whose passion 
for natural history, in all its departments, and for zoology in 
particular, has induced him to collect materials for a Fauna of 
the West Indies, which he informs me is already in a consi- 
derable state of forwardness. 
Fig. 1. Pinna of a sterile frond. Fig. 2. Portion of the same, to shew its 
reticulation. Fig. 3. Portion of the spike of fructification. Fig. 4. Re- 
ceptacle, with its capsules. Fig. 5. Single capsule All mare or less 
magnified. 
