of Good Hope. Its aversion to damp or uniform heat is conspicuously displayed in its not being a native of New
Zealand or Fnegia proper on tbe one hand, or of India or tropical Afi-ica on tbe other.
4. A SP ID IUM , 1 .
1. A sp id ium (Polystichum) Mohnoiies, Bory, in Mém. Soc. L in n . Paris, vol. iv. p 597 in Btmcnen
Uoy.Dof. p. 267. t. 35. f. 1. (T a b . CXLIX.)
H a b . Strait ot Magalliaens ; P o rt Pamine, Capt. K in g ; Palldand Islands, B'U ro ille , Sge.
The Magenanic specimens are larger, and have longer and more laxly imhrieatmg pinme, than those from the
i'alkland Islands; which are characteristic of a climate less favonrahle to Ferns.
P late CXLIX. Fig. 1, fertile pinna ; fig. 2, sterUe ditto ; fig. 3, sorus and involucre -.-^lagnified.
2. A s p id iu m (Polystichum) coiiaceum, Swartz^ Syn. Fil. p. 57,
H a e . Chonos Archipelago ; C. Barwin, Fsq.
A species apparently impatient of cold, for though inhabiting the damp west eoast of Chili, as far sonth as the
Chonos Archjelago and the dry climate of Patagoma. reaching there the latitude of Port St. Elena, it neither enters
the Strait of Magalhaens. nor oeenrs in the Falkland Islands or Fnegia. It is almost uiiiversaUy diffused throughout
the Tropics, and the temperate regions of the southern hemisphere.
3. A sp id ium (Polystichum) v e stitim, Swartz, Sgn. M l. p. 53. Polypodium, Forster, Prodr. n. 445.
Var. pinnulis profundius sectis apicibus acutis.
H a b . Var. Tierra d e l F u e g o , s o u th part, C. B arwin, Esq.
The only specimen whieh I have seen is imperfect, bnt appears merely a variety of the A.vestitnm, with rather
narrower and more deeply cut pinnules, whieh are acute, bnt not pungent or spinulose ; the segments of the pinnules
also are narrower and the whole frond smaller. In other respects, and partienlariy in the clothing of the stipes
raehis &e., it exhibits ah the characters of the species I have refeined it to, whieh is a native of Juan Pernandeé
and Chiloe. I am not prepared to say how far aU may be distinct from the British rt. aculeatum, the incisions
of the broader mucronate pinmdes in the European plant are closer, and aH acideate, which is not the case with the
fviueal states of A. veditum ; and the clothing, too, is different.
This species is represented by the rt. venustum, Homb. and Jacq., in Lord Anckland’s group, and b y r t vroli-
ferim, Br., in Tasmania.
5. ASPLENIUM , L .
1. Asplbnium Magellanicum, Kaulf. En. FU. p. 175. Hooi. et Grev. Ic. F il. 1 .180.
H a b . Strait of Magalliaens, Commerson; Po rt Pamine, Capt.King; Hermite Island, Cape Horn, ./.* .7 / .
A very pretty and distmet httle species ; probably not uncommon between the latitudes of Concepcion and
Cape Horn, on the west coast of South America. I t has a very nearly allied representative in New Zealand ; and
another, the AapUniwn laxim, Br., in Tasmania.
6. LOMARIA, WiUd.
1 . L o m a e i a alpina; Stegania, Brown, Prodr. p. 152. S. alpina, ft. latiuscula, Borg, fid . B ’ Urville
m Mem. Soe. L in n . P a n s , vol. iv. p. 597. Lomaria polypodioides. Gaud, in Ann. Sc. N a t. vol, v. p. 90s!
et in Freye. Fog. Bot. p. 374. L. australis, Kunze, Coll. Pla n t. Poeppig, p. 57 (fid. sp. tn I le r l. Book.).
L. decurrens, Kunze, MS S . L. bleohnoides, Bory (?), in Buperrey, Toy. Bot. Crypt, p. 273, L, SeUowiana,
Presl, in Herh. Beg. Berol. p. 100 (fid. sp. in Herb. H o o k ). L. Antarctica, Carmichael, in U n n . Soc. Trans.
vol. xii. p. 512. L. linearis, Colenso, in Tasman. P h il. Jonrn. vol. ii, p. 176. Polypodium Pinna-marina,
Poiret, Encycl. (T a b . CL.)
H a e . South Chili, Fuegia, and the FalHand Islands, most abundant ; Kerguelen’s Land, very scarce,
J . B . H.
One o fth e commonest Fems between the latitudes of Concepcion and Cape Horn on the west coast of South
America and also in the Falkland Islands, often covering the gi-onnd for many yards. I t has also been collected in
Sonth BrazU by SeEow, and in Tristan d'Acunha, Kerguelen’s Land, New Zealand, and in Tasmania; tbronghout
all wliich countries it retains its characters very markedly, and is altogether a most distinct species. The Bleclmum
boreale is eridently its representative in the northem hemisphere, and is very similar in size, form, and habit,
thougli abundantly distinct in tbe nature of its involucre.
P la t e CL. Fig. 1 , portion of sterile pinnæ ; fig. 2, fertile pinna ; fig. 3 , transverse section of tbe same.
2. L omaeia Magellanica, Desvaux, in Mag. N a t. Berlin, 1811, p. 330, et in Mém. Soc. L in n . Paris,
vol vi. p. 289. L. Magellamca, ft. angustiseta, Bory, in Mém. Soe. L in n . P a n s , vol. iv. p. 597. L . setigera.
Gaud, in Ann. Sc. Nat. vol. v. p. 98, et in Freyc. Fog. Bo t. p. 130, L. robusta, Carm. in Trans. U n n . Soc.
vol. xii. p. 512. L, zamioides, Gardner, M S S . in Herb. Hook. Pteris palmæformis, P e tit Thouars, Flore
de Tristan d ’Acunha, p. 30. “ Cetcracli,” Pernetty, Voy. vol. ii. p. 56.
H a b. South Cliili, Fuegia, and the Falkland Islands, very abundant.
This species is more confined in longitude but has a much wider range in latitude than L. alpina. I have
examined what appears to be tbe same from British Guiana (possibly a distinct species), from Brazil, and La Plata,
on the east coast of South America ; and from Peru, Jnaii Fernandez, and Chili, on the west; it also inhabits
Tristan d’Acunha. Its New HoUand representative is the L.procera, Br.
Mr. Gardner’s name of zamioides is peculiarly applicable both to his Brazilian and my Falkland Island specimens,
they singularly resemble a Zamia in habit and general appearance.
7. GRAMMITIS, Sto.
1. Geammitis australis. Brown, Prodr. p. 146. M .A n t . p. 111.
H a b. Strait of Magalhaens ; P o rt Famine, Capt. King. Hermite Island, Cape Horn, abundant in the
woods and on the rocks upon hills, J . B . H.
Tbis, again, is a Fern of the Soutbcni Ocean, being found in Tasmania, New Zealand, Lord AncklaiKt’s group
and Campbell’s Island, tbe west coast of Sonth America, from Cape Horn probably all the way north to Lima,
and on Tristan d’Acnnha. I have seen no American specimens bnt Capt. King’s, my own, and Cuming’s (n. 1052).
Its tropical representative is the beautiful little G. marginella.
8. G L E IC llE N IA , Sm.
1. G l e ichenia acutifolia. Hook., Sp. Fil. vol. i. p. 7. t. 7. A.
H ab. Strait of Magalhaens ; Port Famine, Capt. King.
Like all the pedate, erect, southern species of Gteichenia, this has a very narrow range, and is probably confined
to the coast between the Strait of Magalhaens and Chüoe, whence the specimens quoted as Patagonian in Species
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