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and makes it synonymous with O. nudicaule, L. I have seen no 
specimen answering this here ; but it is maintained by Kuhn 
(“Fil. Afr.,” 178), as also is O. fibrosum, Schum. (from near 
Magalisberg ?), a similar plant, with thin reticulated barren fronds. 
O. vulgatum. Linn. Sp. 7740 ; Hk. and Bkr. Syn. Fil. 445. 
O. capense. Schl. Adum. 9, pi. 1 ; Kunze, Linn. 10.487 ; Kuhn, Fil. 
Afr. 176; Buchanan’s List, No. 131 ; Wood’s Natal Ferns, 40. 
O. nudicaule. Pappe and Rawson, 54 (not O. nudicaule, Linn.), 
O. lusitanicum. Thunb. FI. Cap. 731 ; Prod. 1 7 1 (not O. lusitanicum, 
Linn.). 
O. costatum. Kunze, Linnsea, 13 ; Pappe and Rawson, 48. 
O. nudicaule, var. capensis. Mett. 
Widely distributed ; growing among grass in dry banks. 
West. — Table Mountain and Lion’s Mountain (Thunb.), Oliphant’s River 
(Mund and Maire), near Cape Town (Bergins), Gamka River 
(E. and Z.). 
East. — Uitenhage (Zeyher), Kcegaberg, and Bushman’s River (E. and Z. ), 
Bedford (Dr. Atherstone), top of Cave Mountain, near Graaffreinet, 
4500 feet ; Net’s Poort, Somerset East (MacOwan). 
Kaff. — Bazija (Baur), Cathcart (Roth), near King William’s Town, 
frequent. 
Natal. — Sandy banks near Durban (Wood), Nottingham (M‘Ken). 
Transvaal. — Magalisberg (? see above). 
157. Ophioglossum reticulatum. Linn. 
Plate CXLIII. Fig. 2. Natural size. 
Crown erect, with several sheathing bracts, but not tuberous. 
Fronds one or two from a root, six to nine inches high, the fertile 
part one to one and a half inches long, surmounted by a short 
point, and having a petiole three to four inches long from where it 
joins the barren pinnule, which is glabrous, thin, cordate, pointed, 
somewhat involute, three to four inches long, one and a half to two 
inches broad, with a distinctly cordate base, and very short petiole 
or none. Veins distinct, reticulated, without a mid-rib. Fertile 
