THE FERNS OF NORTH-WESTERN INDIA. 
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Punjab : Chamba* — Dalbousie 6000', Clarke No. 22540, 1874 ; Sara L ,000', Clarke 
No. 24111, 1874 : Herb. Hurt. Calcutta ; near Langera 6000', and below Sabrundi 
9500', McDonell 1882 ; Simla Reg. Hattu Mt. 9-10,000', T. Thomson 1847. 
N.-W. P. : Kumaun— J. R. Reid 1886, in Herb, Saharanpur and Kew (Duthie’s 
Nos, 6242 and 6285). 
Nepal W. : Opposite Badhi Village 10-11,000', and Nampa Gadh 12 13,000', 
Duthie 1886. 
Forma dentiqera . 
(sp.) Wall., including probably oar. 3, attenuata , Clarke. Plate XXIV. 
Afghan, : 9-10,000', Aitch., No. 330, 1880, in Herb. Saharanpur : var. attenuata . 
on ticket. 
Trans. Ind. States : Baraul 85-10,000', Harriss x895. 
Kashmir : 6-12,000', T. T., Clarke, Trotter, MacLeod, Gammie, McDonell, Duthie : 
common. 
Punjab . iTazara— Trotter, in list of Punjab Ferns ; Siran and Kag&n Vys. 
10,200', Cbor. 10,000', and Nila— Duthie's Collector 1896-97. Chamba — Ravi Valley, 
8-10,000', McDonell: frequent?; 10,000', J. Marten; Kullu 6-8000', Coventry, 
Simla Reg. — north face of Kamalhori and Hattu Mts. 83 10,000', Blanford, Hope: 
Bliss. 
N.-W. P. : D, D. But.— Jaunsar — Ohachpur Peak 10,000’, Gamble, and Hersohel 
in Herb. Hort. Sahar ; T Garh. — 9-14,000', Duthie; Kumaun — Milam 11,500' 
S. and W. 1848 ; RHam Vy. 11-13,000', and Byans— Napulcha 12,000',. Duthie. 
Distrib.— {Forma typical America : Sitka and Labrador to Canada, British 
Columbia, and United States • Cuba, Caraccas,and Venezuela. Europe : Throughout 
the continent from Lapland, Russia and Scandinavia to Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, 
Crete, and the Caucasus. Asia (, forma dentigerd) Sikkim 10-13,000', rare : collected 
there by J. D. Hooker and C . B. Clarke. Kamschatka, and Japan. Afr. : Azores 
and Macaronesia ; Algeria; KamerunMts; Abyssinia; Natal. 
In the Synopsis Filicum it is not expressly stated that the European form of 
A. Filix-femina has been got in the Himalaya, and the following Indian names 
are given as synonyms, namely, A. pedinatum, Wall, A. lenuifrons, Wall., 
A. gracilc Don., A. stramineum , J. Sm., A. tenellum , Wall., and A. proliferum , 
Moore. Agreeing, as I do, with Clarke and Beddome, that the two first of 
these plants do not belong to A. Filix-j comma, and observing that in his Supple- 
ment of 1892 Beddome has put A. stramineum under A. niyripes, and 
A . tenellum under A. pectinatum y I find that there are left in the “ Synopsis ”, 
as Indian representatives of A. Filix-femina , only A. gracile Don. and A. proli- 
fer urn, Moore, of neither of which have I seen specimens in India, collected 
there. Until a few years ago I agreed with Mr. Clarke that exactly the typical 
form had not been found in India. But latterly, while I was still there, 
a comparison of the specimens from Kashmir, Chamba, Kumaun, and West 
Nepal, enumerated above, with my British specimens mostly collected by myself, 
compelled a change of opinion, and I decided to count typical A, Filix-Jemina 
