THE FERNS OF NORTH- WESTERN INDIA. 
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State- — 8-10,000', Trotter ; Simla Reg. Jual State, Chor Mt. 10,000', Collett j Ridge 
east of Simla 83-10,000', Collett, Hope, Bliss j Bisahir — Kushung (or Kasong) Forest 
9500', Lace. v 
' N.-VV. P. : D.D . Dist. — Jaunsar : Deoban 9000', Herschel ; T. Garh ., Nag Tiba Mt. 
9000', Mackinnons ; Ganges Valley 9-12,000' and Jumna Valley 9-10,000', Duthiej; 
Brit. Garh. — above Ramri 8-9000', Duthie ; Kumaun — Guinji Pass 8000', Davidson ; 
5 stations 7-10,000', Duthie. 
Distrib.— Asia ; N. Ind. (Him.) Bhotan. 
Beddome, in the Supplement to bis Bandbook, has rightly added to the 
description — “ root-stock creeping, stipes solitary, distant,” which character 
distinguishes this species from the next. So do the scales at base of stipe. In 
A. fimbriatum , as the “ Synopsis ’* says, these are dark brown : in A.foliosum 
they are bright chesnut, and much more numerous. 
I have gathered this fern only in the Simla Region, and at the time, follow- 
ing Blanford, I understood it to be Clarke’s A. Atkinsoni , var. Andersoni ;but 
I never could separate that fern from A. fimbriatum. Blanford has it under 
Clarke’s variety. 
On a sheet in the Saharanpur Herbarium, from British Garhwal, I find a 
note by Mr. Duthie used by Paharis ( Hill men) as a remedy for snake- 
bite ”. Doubtless : but would it not be as useful to use a snake as a remedy for 
the bite of a Pah/m ? 
32. A, foliOSUm, Wall. Cat. 339 (or 359) ; Bedd. Suppt. H. B. 37. 
‘ 4 Root stock erect or suberect, stipes approximate ; rhachis with a gland at the 
axis of the pinnae ; stipes and rhachis often red ; fronds up to 3 feet high ; 
primary pinnae 5 — 8 inches long, generally about broad, but varying from 
f inch to 3 inches ; lowest secondary pinnule on the superior side of the 
pinnae always more or less elongated and often double the size of the others ; 
lowest superior lobe of the pinnule also elongated ; sori strictly athyrioid. Bedd. 
F.B. I., PI. CCXCV, Wall. Cat. 339, first sheet in Linn. Herb, (the second 
being Athyrium macrocarpum). Clarke, pi. 62, fig. 1, (splmropteroides) a good 
figure of this plant, but scarcely showing the enlarged lowest secondary pinnule 
at the superior base of the pinnae which is most characteristic of this fern. 
This must, I think, rank as a species, being nearer to macrocarpum than to 
fimbriatum. 
The above is Colonel Beddome’s description. 
Bun jib : Chamha — Ravi Valley — nearLangera 6000', McDonell(in Herb. Gamble); 
Kangra Vy . Diet. — Dharmsala 10,000', Clarke Nos. 23934 and 24361 ; Simla Reg . 
“ above Simla, 11 Bates ; Ridge east of Simla 8000', fide Beddome ; between 
Nagkanda and Baghi 8500', Hope. 
N.-W. P. ; Garh.— Dr. J. L. Stewart ; T. Garh. Nag. Tiba Mt. 9000', Mackinnons 
1878-79 ; Brit. Garh,, 8-9000', Duthie No. 5152, 1885 ; Kumaun— Wailich in Herb. 
Kew t Ralimundi Pass 8000', S, and W.; Forest near Sosa 8-9000', Duthie 6256', 1886 ; 
Summit of Dhaukuri Pass 10,500', Trotter No. 792, 1891 ; Mangaiia Gor— ridge above 
Rinti, MacLeod 1893. 
