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that, at last, some one besides myself has discovered that onr Mashobra (Simla) 
Botryckium is not B. daucifolium.” 
f Beddome, in his Handbook, gives B. daucifolium , Wall, as found 
“ throughout the Indiau region, up to 8000' elevation; ” but the 
only specimen in the Kew Herbarium from the westward of Nep&i 
so named is one marked Kumaun, R. Bl. 49, “ cm mera varietas, 
Wall. 48 ? ” But No. 48 of Walliche’s catalogue is B, lanuginosum , 
Wall. 
The other habitats of B. daucifolium, to which the specimens in the Kew 
Herbarium are referred, are Nepal, Winterbottom ; Sikkim ; Bhotan 
Griffith ; Nilgiris, Beddome and Clarice ; Anamalais, Beddome. 
Ceylon, (fardner. China — Yunnan, Henry. Japan. Samoa.] 
McDonelPs specimen of termtam from Chamba is curious ; it has two sterile 
segments at the base, — the fertile branch starting 1^ in. up. A Mussooree speci- 
men I have from the Messrs. Mackinnon, shows the sterile and fertile branches on 
segments splitting from a^ommon stipes at barely half an inclv from the root 
stock,— the sterile one 7 in. 1. by 7| in. broad, as mountecbjlhe fertile branch has 
a stipes 10^ in. 1., $ — & inch broad, as pressed ; frond over 6 in. 1. tripinnate. 
Mr. Ainslie’s specimen from Kumaun, in the Levinge collection in Dublin, I 
noted as being very lax in habit : sterile branch J3| in. 1. from the point of 
separation : fertile branch 24 in. 1., much -branching. In the same collection 
I noted a remarkable specimen collected by Mr. Levinge in Darjiling, alt. 7160', 
12-10-1882, of which the fertile branch starts at 3 inches from the rhizome : 
the sterile spike (or the frond) then curves to the right (as mounted), and f in. 
higher up throws off to the left a fertile branch with a thick stipes, which i& 
inches higher splits into two fertile, branching, segments of equal length. I 
believe Professor L. M. Underwood says that what I call B. tematum is B. 
obliqmm , Muhl, 
8. B Virginianum, Sw. ; Syn. Fil. 448; C. R. 588, including <3. 
lanuginosum , Wall. ; Bedd. H. B. 471, including B. lanuginosum , Wall. 
Punjab : Hazdra List. — Kagan Vy. 8000', Inayat, collector from Hort. Sahar. 
No. 20388 (Herb. Number) ; Chamba State— McDonell. 
N.-W. P. ; T. Garli ., Datuni 7000', Gamble 1893, No. 24348 ; Murali 8000', 
Gamble 1894, 24886 ; Duthie 1898. 
.DlfcTRiB.— N. Amer. : New Brunswick to Florida, and westward to Arizona 
and the Pacific Coast, fide Underwood. S. Amer, Ecuador and Brazil,—; fide 
'Synopsis'. Europe', from Norway to Austria. Asia : N. 2nd. (Him.) Sikkim — 
Kungbee, King 1878 ; marked “abnormal form.” 
I give this species as new to India, because I have no distinct recollection of 
King’s Sikkim specimen, noted above ; and, besides, that specimen has not been 
recorded. While I was at the Royal Herbarium, Kew, in 1888 or 1889, along 
