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tint ol^green. There is a great resemblance between N. odontoloma y Moore, and 
M pallidum, Bory - and some specimens of Dr, Aitchison’s from Afghanistan, 
wM§h I^l hrst referred to odontolomay may b kpall/idum, if these are distinct 
spcifes. 1 ^ThwisA whole plant of his, No. 4-55, f‘ Shand Toi ravine, Aspidium 
Filix-tnas, § 1-5-7 9,” which is exactly Clarke’s Assam normal is, small and 
simple in cutting, but very pallid. Mr. Baker has marked this — 44 doubtful — 
bdkmmrigidum and F'ltu-masFyj %h\dev rigidum, which he seems to have 
erroneously introduced into the Flora of India, Mr. Clarke says— “ Some of 
the Indian examples exhibit the whitened appearance of N. pallidum, Bory ; 
and Sir W. J. Hooker has written that name on one of them. Some forms 
included by me under N. Filix-mas, var. 2, normahs above, become 2- pinnate, 
and I can draw no line between- them (Khasi examples) and Ni. rigictumF 
From this it. would appear that the large N.- West Himalayan form of N. . odo?i~ 
MoMwgmwS: also in Assam ; but Mr. Clarke gives no dimensions, and his 
figure is of the small form. 
Later on, after a discussion, Mr. Baker allowed me to pick out of all these 
wrappers the specimens I reduced to normal/'*, alias N. odontoloma, Moore, 
and Mr. Clarke pinned additional tickets on them, bearing that name, on my 
responsibility. Colonel Beddome, in his Supplement, under Lastrea F.-mas , 
var. odontoloma , Moore, makes no mention of this re-sorting done at Kew ; but 
\mdvc Lastrea spinulosa var. remota,, he seems to refer to specimens of N. odon- 
toloma I contributed to Kew when he says — “ Mr. Hope has also sent speci- 
mens to Kew, gathered at the base of the Himalayas, in which the pinnules are 
much less cut than in the type, which have been referred to rigicla, var. pallida.” 
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The specimens I sent, which are admitted by Clarke to be his var. normals. 
well developed,, were not gathered at the base of the Himalaya, but over the 
outer ridge of the range at an elevation of about 6,300 feet, and no specimen 
9HU -Uilh pilUUYl 0:1 si fO JHQI09 n99Ig*9l. s Sd r d(H : mimifucf w<mm 
of this plant has ever been got. at the base of the Himalayas. 
Large specimens of N. odontoloma , Moore, and also of Aspidium marginatum , 
Wall., are quite bipinnate in the lower half: N. F.-mas is never bipinnate. 
ijntJoqinDO msi nomn onra oa 'i&hn • 1 
Nephrodium elqngatum (Sw.), Hook. & Grev. , is somewhat like N. odon- 
toloma, \ and, very unlike F. *mgs. It is .not bipinnate, and the lowest two pairs 
of pinnaB,: which are upt much shorter than those above them, are less bipinnate 
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*i Rhizome procumbent ” (plants isolated), “ ligneous, densely clothed, as are the 
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in lower part ; rhachises slightly winged in upper pinnae ; lowest pinnae 1 as 
TSSgr as df lqnger than the next above, and the lowest four or five pairs but 
