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Club, 1883, p. 29 ; and the specimens collected by Pringle and Lloyd in 
Mexico in 1886 and 1894 also were so named. The entry in the Bulletin of 
the Torrey Club is as follows : — 
“51. Aspleniuni Glenniei , Baker, described afc p. 488 of the second edition of 
Synopsis Filioum , was scantily collected in the Huachuea Mts. by Prof. Lemmon, 
It is a small fern growing in little tufts like A. montanum . ; but the fronds are 
lanceolate, tapering both ways, 2-6 inches long, pinnate, with many pairs of otlong, 
toothed or pinnatelv lobed, deep-green pinnae. The sori are abundant, rathei large 
slightly curved outwards, and placed mostly very near the midrib of the pinnules. 
The fern comes near the old world -4. fontanum , but it is not closely allied to 
any of our common species. I am obliged to Mr. Baker for the description.** 
If the Nilgiri (S. lud.) plant be admitted to be the same as the American 
and Himalayan plants (Beddome added “ Himalayas ” as a habitat in his Hand- 
book) then Beddome ’s name, being the older, must have priority over Baker’s 
name A. Glenniei % A. yiinnaneme , Franchet in Bull. Bot. Soc. France, 1885, 
p. 28, which Mr. Baker, in Ann. Bot. 1892, placed as a variety of A. fontanum, 
Bernh., near var. exiguum , and of which Beddome, in his supplement of 1892, 
after describing it, says— “ seems hardly to differ from typical fontanum” must, 
I think, also come under A, exiguum . 
I have mentioned under A. fontanum, Bernh., some of the differences from it 
of A. exiguum ; but indeed it would be more difficult to point out identical 
characters, or even resemblances between the two plants. A. exiguum varies 
considerably- in width of frond and pinna?, and in cutting, but the variations are 
all away from the direction of A fontanum. A . exiguum is abundant in many 
places within the municipal limits of Mussoorie, the hill sanitarium in the Dis- 
trict of Delira Dun, where I have chiefly observed it, at altitudes of about 5500' 
to almost 7000 feet, on limestone rocks in the forest, generally with a north as- 
pect. It grows in rock crevices, among moss, and spreads itself out like a star, 
the prolonged fronds bending backwards until they bury their tips in the moss 
seeking for cracks, or crevices, or earth, in which to root. The fronds last for two 
years, at least, living through the winter, in frost and snow, and through the suc- 
ceeding dry, hot, weather in a shrivelled and apparently dead state until the rainy 
season comes in June or July, when they uncurl, and then frequently, if they have 
not already done so, produce young plants on their tips. This is followed by the 
springing up of fresh fronds from the same roots, generally not proliferous in 
that season, so far as I have seen. Judging from the numerous herbarium 
specimens I have seen, A . fontanum of the Himalaya has a more erect habit 
than A. exiguum has, and is never proliferous. Blanford says A . exiguum is 
rare in the neighbourhood of Simla. In Gamble’s collection I found 3 sheets 
with 11 specimens— from Simla. On the five days’ march from Simla to Bdgi, 
