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fertile, and that all the pinnae bear capsules on every segment, except at their 
apices, and at the apices of each pinnule. Taking one pinnule of the lowest 
pinna of a less than usually crowded frond, (i-pinnate, I count on it 125 
capsules. There must be about 500 capsules on that pinna, and probably 
4,000 on the whole frond ; and I dare say that number is doubled on large 
f:*onds. 
On a sheet in the Kew Herbarium, from, the Himalaya, “ Lady Dalhousie ” 
(no ticket), Mr. Baker has written — “ a much larger plant than typical japonic 
mm. 
0. melanoleps, Deoaisne, got in Arabia, Persia, and Abyssinia, is very like 
O. multisectum , but it is smaller and more delicate. 
Genus 14. CRYPTOGRAMME, R. Br. 
1. C. crispa, R. Br. ; Syn. Fil. 144 ; C. R. 459. Bedd. H. B. 98, and 
Suppl. 23. 
Afghan. : fide Bcddotne in Suppl. H. B. 
Kashmir: Marbul Pass 11,200' Clarke; 11-12,000' Aitch. ; McDonell, Duthie, 
MacLeod. 
Punjab : Hazara — Makra Mt. 10-10,500' Trotter ; Cliamba 9-10,000' Baden- Powell, 
McDonell ; Kangra Valley List.— Dharmsala, 11,000' Clarke ; Lahanl— Rohtang Pass, 
12-13,000' Trotter ; Simla Reg.— near Phagu, Vieary 1831,—“ above Simla, 11 Col. Bates. 
The Chur Mt., Edgew., 1836 (very long) ; Hattu Mt., and vicinity, 8,500-10,000', 
Gamble, Blanf., Hope, Bliss ; Bisahir — Kunawar, 9000', Lace. 
N.-W. P. : T. Garb,— Ohachpur Peak, 10,000', Gamble; 11-12,000', Herschel, Duthie ; 
Brit. Garh.— 12-14,000', Duthie; Kumaun — “In Alpibus summis Kumaun, legit 
Rob. Blinkworth, 1826 ” (Wallich’s writing on ticket on sheet of C. Brunoniana, 
Wall., in Herb. Hort. Kew); near Ealam 12,000', 8. and W. 10-11,000', Trotter, 
MacLeod. 
Nepal— W. 11-12,000', Duthie. 
Distrib.— The “Synopsis Filicum,'* 1 following Hooker in the “Species Filicutu 11 
recognises three forms — «. C. crispa, European : distributed from Arctic Europe to 
Lake Baikal, Mt. Olympus in Bithynia, Etruria, and the Sierra Nevada ; /3. C. Bruno - 
niana, Wall., Asiatic ; Himalayas at 10-16,000' ; and v, C . acrosticoidcs , R. Br. — North 
American : from Sitka and Arctic Regions southward to Lake Superior, Oregon and 
California. 
The Distribution in Amis Sikkim— head of Lachen Valley, Hooh-fil Dankera 
2,000', Xing's Collector. China— Hupeh Prov. Henry , Szechwan Prov.— Mt. Omci 
(Summit) Faber. Japan —Faurie. 
Beddome, in Suppl. H. B., says — “ Gathered by Praia in the Crater on 
Barren Island, Andamans,” This is a remarkable instance of isolation, and of 
an Arctic and Temperate Region fern growing in the Tropics, below 12* 
N. lat. 
I do not make out the differences between forms a and & pointed out by 
Hooker and Baker ; but in the one locality where 1 have seen the Himalayan 
