Ferns of South Africa. 
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Up to, and about, .this date, the principal collectors, not al- 
ready mentioned were, in Cape Colony, Dr. Pappe, Hon. R. W. 
Rawson, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Alexander, Sir Henry and Lady Barkly, 
Dr. Atherstone, Capt. Espinasse, Col. Blagrove, Mrs. Barber, 
Mrs. Kitton, Mrs. Holland, Dr. Shaw, Rev. Mr. Baur, and Messrs. 
McGibbon, Forbes, and Browning ; and in Natal, Dr. Krauss, 
Dr. Cattell, Rev. J. Buchanan, and Messrs. Plant, W. T. Gerrard, 
and M. J. McKen ; while Messrs. Ayres, J. Sanderson, J. Todd, 
and F. Oates, collected in Natal and the Transvaal. 
The issue of the 2nd edition of Hooker and Baker’s “Synopsis 
Filicum ” (1874), gave a renewed interest to Pteridology, and in 
the Cape, a further impetus was bestowed, by the attention given 
to it by His Excellency the Governor Sir Henry Barkly, and by 
Lady Barkly, who in 1875 prepared a revised list of South 
African ferns, giving localities, or distribution, so far as given in 
the “Synopsis Filicum,” or shown by specimens in the Cape 
Government Herbarium, along with the results of their own travels, 
and with Natal notes supplied by Rev. J. Buchanan. 
In this list, so great a number of Pappe and Rawson’s species 
are merged into others, that, including additions made in the 
meantime, the total number of species is reduced to 153. 
Corresponding with this, and in the same year, came Rev. J. 
Buchanan’s revised list of Natal ferns, in the “ Natal Colonist,” 
with numerous notes upon the rarer, or more confused species — a 
most useful list, in which 132 ferns, and 13 fern allies, are enu- 
merated, and Natal localities given. In 1877, Wood’s “Ferns 
of Natal ” was issued, in which good popular descriptions are given 
of 1 19 species, along with distribution, Natal localities, &c. 
In Hooker’s “ leones Plantarum,” 1886, three parts are 
devoted to the new ferns, and include several South African 
species (with figures). 
Oates’ “ Matebeleland ” (1881), describing a journey from 
Durban to the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi, includes a list by 
Baker, of plants collected, numbering 67 species, of which 10 are 
ferns ; and one new species, Adiantum Oatesii, Bkr, is described 
and figured. Only four of his species are included by me in the 
