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get long — it is not only very much prettier at first, but more 
easily managed ever after. When found in the sporeling 
state, as it often is soon after a bush fire, the fronds are quite 
delicate in texture, yellowish green, with crenated pinnules, 
and grow in a tuft, from which afterwards the rhizome starts 
to run. It is in that state not easily recognised as Bracken, 
and looks like Hypolepis sparsisora. 
Pteridiimi aquilinum (L.). Kuhn, v. Deck. Reisen , 3 3 Bot. n (1879); 
C. Chr. Ind. 591. 
Pteris aquilina. Linn. 1753; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 163; Sim, Ferns 
of S. Apr. 1st ed. 114. 
Pteris lanuginosa. Willd. 
Pteris aquilina L., var. lanuginosa. Hk. Sp. 2, 196; Kuhn, Fil. 
Afr. 76. 
Pteris capensis. Thunb. Prod. 172; FI. Cap. 733; Schl. Adum. 45, 
tab. 25; Kze, Linnaea , 10, 527. 
Pteris lanuginosa, var. / 3 . capensis. Agardh. 
Allosorus capensis. Pappe and Rawson, 32. 
Allosorus hottentottus. Presl. 
Pteris cor difolia. Kze, Linnaea , 1 8, 1 20. 
Allosorus cordifolius Presl. Pappe and Rawson, 32. 
Lady Barkly in mistake places A. capensis and A. cor di- 
folia under Pellaea hastata Link (= P. viridis (Forsk.) Prantl). 
Cosmopolitan; not uncommon, but rather local in South 
Africa. Recorded from Humpata, Angola, by Prof. Pearson. 
West. — Abundant all round Table Mountain, Paarlberg, Hex River, 
Worcester, Knysna, etc. 
East. — Zuurberg, Albany, Graaffreinet, Somerset East, Kat River, etc. 
Kafif. — All along the forest range, mostly above the forest, and most 
abundant and vigorous where bush fires have lately cleared the 
ground ; almost absent from the low grass veldt ; Komgha (Flana- 
gan) ; Umgazi River, Pondoland (Flanagan, 2606). 
Natal. — All over the Province. 
Orange Free State. — Rouxville (Harper); near Van Reenen (DrBews). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (Sanderson); Athol and Barberton (Burtt- 
Davy, 1899 and 256); Shilouvane (Junod, 892); Heidelberg, Belfast, 
Fountain Grove, Rietfontein (R. Leendertz, 2569, 2775, no, 900); 
Johannesburg (A. Pehrsson, 430); Waterval Boven (F. A. Rogers, 
991); Bokfontein (T. J. Jenkins, 768); Rustenburg Kloof (M. Collins, 
101); Haenertsberg (Mrs Pott, 4626); Rosehaugh (J. M. Sim). 
Rhodesia. — Umtali (J. F. Darling); Salisbury (H. M. Hole); near 
Mount Hampden, a quite glabrous variety (Holland) ; Matopo 
