THE BRITISH FERNS. 

LASTREA FILIX-MAS, 8. AFFINTS, Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 421. 
LASTREA EROSA, Deakin, Florigr. Brit. iv. 101, fig. 1608 (excl. syn. Aspidiwm 
erosum, Schkuhr ; according to the figure t. 45). 
. LASTREA AFFINIS, Moore MS. (Nat. Pr. Ferns). 
ASPIDIUM FILIX-MAS, B. EROSUM, Hooker & Arnott, Brit. Fl. 6 ed. 569; 7 ed. 
585 (excl. Aspidiwm erosum, Schkuhr). Döl, Rhein. Fl. 16. 
ASPIDIUM DEPASTUM, Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew. t. 51 (monstrous). 
ASPIDIUM AFFINE, Fischer & Meyer, Hohen. Enum. Talüsch. 10. Fee, Gen. Fil. 
291. Ruprecht, Dist. Crypt. Ross. 36. 
ASPIDIUM CAUCASICUM, A. Braun, Flora, 1841, 707. 
ASPIDIUM PSEUDO-FILIX-MAS, Fée, Iconogr. Now. 108. 
ASPIDIUM FILIx-MAs, Hohenacker, Enum. Elizabethpol. 260. Tenore, Att. Accad. 
del R. Inst. Sc. Nat. Nap. v. (reprint 7, t. 1, fig. 1 A-B.) 
ASPIDIUM MILDEANUM, Goeppert, Bot. Zeit. xii. 8b. 
了 oLYPODIUNM HELEOPTERIS, Borkhausen, Rim. Arch. Bot. i. 19 ; according to 
Deakin. 
POLYSTICHUM AFFINE, Ledebour, Fl. Ross. iv. 515. 
POLYSTICHUM FILIX-MAS, var. 1, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 84. 
LOPHODIUM EROSUM, Newman, Phytol. 1851, App. xxi. 
DRYOPTERIS AFFINIS, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 187 (183, fig. a). 
DRYOPTERIS FILIX-MAS, v. AFFINIS, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 187. 





Var. paleacea: fronds subbipinnate ; pinnules oblong, truncately 
obtuse, serrate at the apex, paler subglaucous and hair-scaly 
beneath ; sori distinct, often small, confined to the lower part of 
the pinnules; margin of the indusium much inflected beneath the 
spore-cases ; stipes and rachis shaggy with lustrous golden-brown 
scales, long and narrow above, intermixed with broader ones at 
the base. [Plate XXXIII A.] 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS, v. PALEACEA, Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 110; 3 ed. 
108; Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, t. 17 A. 
LASTREA FILIX-MAS, v. BORRERI, Johnson, Sowerby Ferns of Gt. Brit. 20. 
LASTREA PSEUDO-MAS, Wollaston, Phytol. n. s. i. 172. 
LASTREA PALEACEA, Moore MS. (Nat. Pr. Ferns). 
LASTREA PATENTISSIMA, Presl, Tent. Pterid. 76. 
LASTREA PARALLELOGRAMMA, Liebmann, Mex. Bregn. 119. 
LASTREA TRUNCATA, Brackenridge, United St. Explor. Exped. xvi: 195, t. 27. 
ASPIDIUM PALEACEUM, Don, Prod. Fl. Nepal. 4. 
ASPIDIUM PATENTISSIMUM, Wallich, Cat. 340 (scales darker). 
,ASPIDIUM DONIANUM, Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv., part 293200 
ASPIDIUM WALLICHIANUM, Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 104. 
ASPIDIUM PARALLELOGRAMMUM, Kunze, Linnea, xiii. 146. 
ASPIDIUM CRINITUM, Martens d: Galeotti, Foug. Mem. 66, t: 17, fig.2. Fee, Gen. 292. 
ASPIDIUM AFFINE, A. Brawn, Flora, 1841, 707, in obs. ` 
ASPIDIUM Nrpvs, Grifith MS. in Hb. Hook. 
AsPIDIUM ULIGINOSUM, Blume MS. in Hb. Hook. 
ASPIDIUM ADNATUM, Blume, Enum. Fil. Jav. 162. 
NEPHRODIUM AFFINE, Lowe, (R.T.) Bot. Mise. n. s., i. 25; Id., Trans. Camb. 
Phil. Soc. vi. 525. 

