80 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIII . 
Distrib.— N. Amer.: Arctic and Temperate Regions ; California and Mexico. 
S. Amer . — "‘Whole length of Andean Chain. 11 W. Ind. Europe : Everywhere fiom 
Iceland and Novaya Zemlya and Spitzbergen in the Arctic Regions to Spain, Sicily, 
Cyprus, and the Caucasus. Asia : Lebanon, Persia, Kurdistan, Siberia, Manchuria, 
Kamschatka, Thibet, N. China ; N. Ind. (Him.), Sikkim. Australasia. N. Zeal. 
Sandwich Isles. Aj’r . — Madeira Fernando Po, Abyssinia, S. Afr. 
[■ Cystopieris suedelica , A. Br. and Milde : Syn. Fil. 108, Pas been found 
in the Chnmbi Valley, Thibet, by Sir George King’s collectors.] 
2. C. montana, Link. ; Syn. Fil. 104 ; Bedd. H. B , Supp. 15. 
Kashmir: “In woods above Gulmarg, about 9,0(0', not higher, August 1877, 11 
Aitch. in Herb. Hort. Kew ; Bangas— Muzafarabad — Inayat, Duthie's Collr. 21-7-97 
(Saharanpur Herb.) 
N.-W. P. : Kumaun— ne&v Ralam Glacier 13,000', No. 8547 ; near Rama— Dhauli 
Valley 12-18, 00C ; Byans — Kutti Valley 1844,000'; above Nabbi 12-13,000', No. 
3647, Duthie 1884. 
Nepal, W. : .Opposite Buddhi Village 1042,000'; Nampa Gadh 11-12,000', No. 
6247, Duthie 1886. 
Distrib. — N. Amer . : East side of Rocky Mts.; Labrador ; Canada W. Europe : 
Mts. of Scandinavia, Scotland (very rare), and Cehtr. Europe. Asia : Kamschatka. 
This fern was sent to Kew, with other plants, by its discoverer in Kumaun, 
Mr. Duthie, but that Indian habitat is not given in Mr. Baker’s paper, 
“ A Summary of the New Ferns which have been discovered or described 
since 1874,” published in the “annals of Botany,” Vol. V. No. XVII, 
ailthou^h new habisats of other old species are mentioned. Beddome, 
though he did not include the species in his Handbook, has entered it in 
the Supplement to that work, published in 1892, and has quoted the 
description given in the Synopsis Ftlicum , but he has given as the only 
Indian locality “Kashmir,” without mentioning the collector’s name. Mr. 
Duthie sent me Kumaun and Nepal specimens soon after he collected them, 
and I know that he has never found the plant in Kashmir. Beddome has 
possibly entered Kashmir as the Indian habitat on the strength of Dr. 
Aitchison’s specimen mentioned above. 
I may be pardoned for mentioning that I have an old acquaintance with 
C. montana , for, when on an excursion in Perthshire, conducted by the late 
Professor J. H. Balfour, in 1856 I think, I discovered a station for the plant 
on Ben Lawers, on which mountain, in 1836, it bad been found for the first 
time in Scotland by Mr. W. Wilson, but where it had not since been gathered 
for long. I have read with interest that lately new stations for this 
fern have been discovered on the border between Perthshire and Argylshire, 
and even in Dumbartonshire. It is a ‘ far cry ’ from Central Europe eastward 
to Kashmir. {To le continued.) 
