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me, but in regard to which I can give no information. 
1 may be permitted to explain that, as far back as 
the end of 1851 and early in 1852, I spent some 
months in the interior, including the then compara- 
tively little known region of the Magalisberg, and 
collected a few plants, which I sent home to the late 
Sir William Hooker, without so much as keeping 
duplicates or memorandum of what I sent. Among 
these may have been a few Ferns, and possibly those 
attributed to me by the authorities quoted by you. 
I regret to be unable to throw any further light upon 
the matter; and, indeed, think it quite possible that 
my name may have been connected with them by 
mistake. Believe me, my dear Mr. Buchanan, 
yours, &c., Joun Sanderson. 
Since the former portion of this pamphlet was sent 
to the press, Mr. Sanderson has received a packet of 
specimens, gathered by Mr. Ayres at Mac mac Gold 
Fields, and which we have examined with much 
interest. Out of 68 species, there are at least seven 
which we have never seen in Natal, but which may 
probably be found in the far up-lands of the Colony. 
Besides Hymenophyllum varum , and II. lineare, we 
observe the following, viz. : — 
1- — Fragments of a large quadri-pinnatifid Pcllcra, 
near to P. consobrina, but with larger pinnules, and a 
very broad wrinkled involucre, which, instead of 
shrivelling up as ihe sori become mature, spreads 
itself out like a fri 1, white and full, all round the 
margins of the lobes. 
2. — Ditto of a large Asplenium, apparently near to 
A. polypodioides, if not a variety of it. 
3. — Ditto of an Aspidium, resembling A.falcatum, 
but with pinnae twice as long, not merely toothed, 
but cut into short lobes, some of which are again 
seven or eight-toothed. The sori are all placed near 
to the mid-rib. 
4. — Ditto of a light-green Nephrodium , deeply Lri- 
pinnatifid, with bluntly rounded lobes, e\ ery part 
shortly hairy, but especially the large, persistent, 
sometimes elongated involucres. An entire frond 
from a very young plant seems to indicate a tri- 
partite character. 
5. — Ditto of a Sagenia, apparently very near to, if 
not a variety of, A ephrodium ciciitari-um. 
J. B. 
