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INTRODUCTION 
Beddome’s ‘ Handbook ’ may be mentioned as the best available 
work for naming the ferns of Simla. Although descriptions could 
not be given, I have considered it desirable to append a com- 
plete list of the species hitherto discovered in the District of Simla. 
I am indebted to Mr. C. W. Hope for this list, and I present it 
entirely on his authority. In addition to his own very rich collec- 
tion, it embodies the results of several collectors whose names are 
not mentioned in connection with the flowering plants. Among 
them General Blair, Mr. T. Bliss, Mr. E. W. Trotter and the late 
H. E. Blanford, E.R.S. 
Trichomanes Filicula, Bory 
Woodsia elongata, Hook. 
Dicksonia scabra, Wall. 
Davallia immersa, Wall. 
pseudocystopteris, Kze. 
Beddomei, Hope 
Clarkei, Baker 
tenuifolia, Sw. 
Cystopteris fragilis, Bernh. 
Adiantum lunulatum, Burm. 
caudatum, L. 
Edgeworthii, Hook. 
Capillus-Veneris, L. 
venustum, Don 
pedatum, L. 
Cheilanthes subvillosa, Hook. 
•Dalhousiae, Hook. 
albomarginata, Clarke 
farinosa, Kaulf. 
anceps, Blanford 
grisea, Blanford 
Onychium auratum, Kaulf. 
japonicum, Kze. 
contiguum, Hope 
Cryptogramme crispa, B. Br. 
Pellaea nitidula, Baker 
calomelanos, Link 
Pteris longifolia, L. 
cretica, L. 
digitata, Wall. 
quadriaurita, Betz. 
excelsa, Gaud. 
aquilijna, L. 
Ceratopteris thalictroides, 
Brongn. 
Woodwardia radicans, J. Sm. 
Asplenium ensiforme, Wall. 
Trichomanes, L. 
septentrionale, Hoffm. 
unilateral, Lam. 
planicaule, Wall. 
Adiantum-nigrum, L. 
fontanum, Bernh. 
exiguum, Bedd. 
varians, Hk. & Gr. 
thelypteroides, Michx. 
macrocarpum, Bl. 
nigripes, Mett. 
tenellum, Hope 
tenuifrons, Wall. 
Mackinnoni, Hope 
Eilix-foemina, Bernh. , var. 
dentigera, Clarke 
rupicola, Hope 
Schimperi, A. Br. 
pectinatum, Wall. 
fimbriatum, Hook. 
foliosum, Wall. 
longifolium, Don 
japonicum, Thb. 
polypodioides, Don 
multicaudatum, Wall. 
Aspidium marginatum, Wall. 
obliquum, Don 
ilicifolium, Don 
acanthophyllum, Franchet 
