THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
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Thunberg’s Name 
Present Name 
Pteris confluens ... 
Pellaea auriculata. 
Pteris incisa 
Histiopteris incisa. 
Pteris auriculata ... 
Pellaea viridis. 
Pteris capensis 
Pteridium aquilinum. 
Pteris flabellulata ... 
Pteris dentata. 
Pteris hastata 
Pellaea hastata. 
Schizaea pectinata 
Schizaea pectinata. 
Blechnum australe 
Blechnum australe. 
Caenopteris rutaefolium ... 
Asplenium bipinnatum. 
Asplenium falcatum 
Asplenium lunulatum. 
Asplenium furcatum 
Asplenium praemorsum. 
Polypodium ensiforme 
Polypodium ensiforme. 
Polypodium tottum 
Dryopteris africana. 
Polypodium aculeatum 
Polystichum pungens. 
Polypodium capense 
Hemitelia capensis. 
Adiantum auriculatum 
Pellaea auriculata. 
Adiantum capense 
Adiantopsis capensis. 
Adiantum caffrorum 
Mohria caffrorum. 
Adiantum pteroides 
Pellaea pteroides. 
Adiantum aethiopicum 
Adiantum aethiopicum. 
Gleichenia polypodioides 
Gleichenia polypodioides. 
Hymenophyllum tunbridgense ... 
Hymenophyllum tunbridgense. 
Trichomanes incisum 
Abnormal pinnae on Hemitelia. 
It will be seen from this that the limits of the genera have 
undergone very considerable alterations since that time, and 
also that several specific names have been changed. It will 
also be noticed that every species mentioned is to be found 
near Cape Town or, at least, between there and Knysna. 
About the same date, Swartz was at work on the ferns, 
and in Schrader’s Journal fiir die Botanik, 1800, 1803, he in- 
troduced, among others, a good many South African species. 
Soon afterwards Breutel, Mund and Maire, Burchell, 
C. W. Bergius, and Rev. Mr Thom were all collecting, while 
Rev. Mr Hesse of Cape Town sent to Europe a collection 
of ferns and lycopods, which were described in Schrader’s 
Gottinger Gelehrte Anz eigen, 1818. 
Thunberg’s Flora Capensis , 1823, contains only the same 
