1 8 The Ferns of South Africa. 
Thunberg’s Name. 
Present Name. 
Pteris capensis 
Pteris flabellulata . 
Pteris aquilina. 
Pteris flabellata. 
Pteris hastata 
Pellaea calomelanos. 
Schizoea pectinata . 
Blechnum australe 
Schizaea pectinata. 
Blechnum australe. 
Ccenopteris rutaefolium . 
Asplenium falcatum 
Asplenium furcatum 
Polypodium ensiforme . 
Polypodium tottum 
Polypodium aculeatum . 
Polypodium capense 
Adiantum auriculatum . 
Pteris rutaefolia. 
Asplenium erectum. 
Asplenium furcatum. 
Polypodium ensiforme. 
Gymnogramme totta. 
Polystichum aculeatum. 
Hemitelia capensis. 
Pellaea auriculata. 
Adiantum capense . 
Adiantum calfrorum 
Cheilanthes capensis. 
Mohria caffrorum. 
Adiantum pteroides 
Adiantum CEthiopicum . 
Gleichenia polypodoides 
Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense 
Trichomanes incisum 
Cheilanthes pteroides. 
Adiantum cethiopicum. 
Gleichenia polypodoides. 
Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense. 
Abnormal pinnae on Hemitelia. 
It will be seen from this, that the limits of the genera have 
undergone considerable alterations since that time, and also, 
that several specific names have been changed. It will also be 
noticed, that every species mentioned is to be found near Cape 
Town, or, at least, between that and Knysna. 
About the same date, Swartz was at work on the ferns, and in 
Schrader’s “Journal fur die Botanik,” 1800, 1803, he introduced, 
among others, a good few South African species. 
Soon afterwards Breutel, Mund and Maire, Burchell, C. W. 
Bergins, and Rev. Mr. Thom, were all collecting, while Rev. Mr. 
Hesse of Cape Town sent to Europe a collection of ferns and 
Lycopods, which were described in Schrader’s “ Goettinger 
Gelehrte Anzeigen,” 1818. 
