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8. The group of Aspidium, hitherto placed as A. ( Polyst .) aculea ~ 
£ww, Sw., and varieties, Nos. 118 to 116 of my list, cannot stands 
There appears, indeed, to be no good ground for maintaining the name 
A. aculeatum any longer ; and it is, in my opinion, inapplicable to any 
Indian plant. Continental botanists seem to use the specific name 
“ lohatum ” instead of “ aculeatum” ; and “ squarrosum,” Don, is an older 
name than “ rufo-barbatum” Wall., for the common coriaceous shiny 
Indian plant. I have used the specific name “ angulare ” for the softer 
plants, of several different forms, which at one time I thought of setting 
up as A . molle n. sp. One of them is very near A . angulare , but 
generally with different clothing on the stipes and rhachis. The fronds 
of this form vary from about 1 foot to 3 feet in length, and the width 
sometimes exceeds 2 feet, with pinnules deeply cut into as many as 
ten segments. This is what Dr. Christ, in “ Filicinse, Warburg, Mon- 
sunia,” calls A, angulare , var. batjanensis • but in the Dehra Dun 
and the Mussooree Himalaya plants of all sizes from I foot to 5 feet 
high are to be got, the length and number of segments of the pinnules 
increasing with the size of the plant. 
3. In no case have I seen any reason to unite with the type any of 
the so-called varieties of Nephrodium ( Lastrea) Filix-mas . ; but I 
have put some of the less divergent forms under N. parallelogrammum 
Kunze . Nephrodium odontoloma (Moore), Bedd., (N. F.-mas , var. 
2 normalis , 0. B. Clarke), I now believe, after seeing many more speci- 
mens from the Punjab and elsewhere, to be the same as N. pallidum , 
Bory, of South-Eastern Europe and Western Asia, of which Mr. Gustav 
Mann was kind enough to get me authentic specimens. I have always 
held that this plant is quite distinct from N. rigidum , Desv., Mr. Clarke’s 
No. 18, p. 323 of 4 his Review.’ N. rigidum , Desv., for which he 
gives as a synonym N. pallidum , Bory, seems to be certainly this 
plant. And nothing has turned up which makes me more inclined to 
admit any connection of A r . marginatum , Wall, (under Aspidum ) with 
N 0 elongatum , H.#nd Gr., or any form of N. F.-mas, 
10. Nephrodium prolixum , Baker, which, reviving an old name 
of Wiltdenow’s, seems to have been designed to include Kunze’s two 
species — N. ochthodes and N. tylodes (this latter name should be 
xy lodes, but Kunze himself originated the misprint), I have resolved into 
its original constituents ; and as I found that the plant of the North- 
Western Himalaya, which had been called N t ochthodes , or N. prolixum y 
