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51. — A. Kraussii. Moore; ( A dentatum, P. & P.) 
On shaded rocky banks, often in scrub ; at Riet Ylei ; 
Mooi River; and Nottingham. Found in unusual 
luxuriance at Nottingham, sprawling in large moss, 
at the roots of old trees. Graff-Reinet, Cape. U. 
52. — A. Sandersoni, Ilk. Moist rocks in bush, and 
old mossgrown trees ; Field’s-hill ; Longsight, Inanda 
(abundant in ravine in front of the house ;) and 
rarely at TJmpuraulo, Grt. Noodsberg and Killie- 
crankie, 2.0i>0ft. elevation. Amatola Mountains, Ka- 
fraria. Zambeziland, Johanna & Masc. Is. M. f 
53. — A. Trichornanes , L. (‘ Maidenhair Spleenwort.’) 
Small bushy ravines, at Mooi River only, 4,000ft. 
above sea. Throughout So. Africa, but by no means 
common. Temperate regions of the old world, from 
Britain and the Azores eastward to Japan and the 
Himalayas; So. Austr., Tasrn., N. Zealand, Sand- 
wich Is. ; N. Amer. and southward along the Andes 
to Peru. — U. . 
54. — A. monanthemum, L. Beside shady rivulets ; 
in all the uplands from Maritzburg Town-hill and 
Karkloof to the Drakensberg, 3, 000-5, 000ft. Through- 
out So. Africa. Abyssinia ; Fernando Po ; Cape 
Yerde, Canary, Madeira and Azore Is. ; Sandwich 
Is. : Mexico along the Andes to Chili. — U. 
55. — A. ebeneum. Ait. In small rocky scrub, rare ; 
Riet Ylei, Mooi River, Nottingham, and Seven-Mile- 
Bush on the Umkomas, 4,000ft. above sea. Through- 
out So. Africa. Canada to the West Indies and 
Ecuador. — U. 
[In Syn. Fil. the next four names in our List; with 
their synonyms, are all included in one, viz.,. A. 
Ivnulatum, Sw. Kuhn distributes the same imo 
seven species. Confessedly it is a group of plants as 
difficult to classify as it is wide in its distribution 
through the world. Perhaps, if called upon to wade 
through and arrange such heaps of specimens of 
these plants, from all parts of the world, as those 
which crowded the table of the lato Sir W. Hooker, 
most Pteridologists would ccaso to wonder at his 
final resolution to sweep them all away together into 
one comprehensive species. But, looking at our 
Natal representatives of the group alone, we find 
them arranging themselves easily and naturally 
under four types. Those four are all found abun- 
dantly in the ‘Colony, and at Umpumulo all mixed 
