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A specimen collected by Mr. Bliss at Simla is 16 in. br. with pinna? in. 
wide, lj in. nearest rhachis , veinlets 12— 14 of aside, up to 17 in lowest 
segments, forked in lowest, and occasionally so in next above. In this species 
the sori are considerably nearer the costa than the edge. 
3. P. Phegopteris, L. ; Syn. Fil. 308 ; C. R. 544. Phegopteris vul- 
garis, Mett., Bedd. H. B. 290. 
Trans-Ind. States : Dir . — Mirga 9500', Surg.-Lt. S. A. Harriss, 1895. 
Kashmir : — Tajwas Nala, 11-12,000', Levinge 1872-75 ; Dr. Aitchison 86-10,000* ; 
Sarpat 10,000', MacLeod ; Gulmarg 8-9000', Duthie. 
PUNJAB : Chamba— Pangi 8000', McDonell 1882 ; Upper Chenab Vy. 8000' (in 
Kashmir ? ), Baden Powell 1879 ; “Chamba 11 J. Marten ; Pa'ngi— Sdnch Vy. 8500', 
Harsukh (Sahar. Herb, collr.) 1899 ; Lahaul , Dr. G..Watt. 
N.-W. P. : T. Garhwal — Banga Pdni 10,000', and Kidarkanta 10-11,000', Dnthie 
1879 ; Kumaun — between Milain and Kilkot 10,000', MacLeod 1893. 
Distrib. — Artier^ i Greenland to Alaska, Labrador, Newfoundland, and Canada ; 
U. S. : New Eugland to Virginia and westward ; Europe : Iceland, Scandinavia and 
British Isles to Spain, N. Italy and Greece, and intervening regions; Caucasus. Asia : 
N. Ind. (Him.), Sikkim— Sundukphu 11,500' Levinge. Siberia, Mandschuria, Kams- 
chatka, and Japan. 
4. P. distans, Don ; Syn. Fil. 308 ; C. R. 544. Phegopteris distans, 
Don (under Polypodium ), Bedd. H. B. 292. 
Kashmir : ? 
Punjab Chamba 1 Simla Region ? 
N.-W, P. : D. D. Diet. — Jaunsar, Chakrata 7000', Gamble No. 22,825, 1891 ; 
Kumaun , near suspension bridge on old road to Almora, Hope 1861. 
Distrib. — Asia : N. Ind. (Him.), Nepal, Wallich; Sikkim, C. B. Clarke : typical ; 
Assam— Khasia, Simons. Malay Peninsula. Java. China. 
As both Clarke and Beddome say, P. distans has tufted stipes, and -as in all 
Gamble’s specimens from Sikkim and Chittagong— 16 sheets — which are com- 
plete, the caudex is erect with tufted stipes, and as this is the character of some 
thirty specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium, I have separated the numerous 
specimens from N.-W. India, hitherto called P. distans , but which have a 
widely creeping and branching rhizome, and I give them as a new species — 
P. late-repens, next below. I am doubtful about the Kashmir specimens which 
I have not seen except Trotter’s, which w r e agreed are late-repens , and also about 
McDonell’s from Chamba. Gamble’s, and some of Blanford’s, specimens from 
the Simla Region have erect caudices, and so have Gamble’s from Jaunsar in the 
Dehra Dun District. The Kumaun specimens have the caudex rather decum- 
bent and stipes subtufted, but are otherwise the same. 
Generally speaking, P. distans seems to be a smaller, stiffer, narrower, and 
less cut fern than the next, but occasionally the fronds are broad for their length. 
This is so with a specimen from Sikkim, coll. King, No. 4132, 1877, which 
Sir George kindly sent me in 1890, as a type of Don’s plant. That frond is 
