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 Note Carl Sigismund Kunth (inserted at the top) B.

Andreea [sic] .

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| 1r C.  Vgl. Thomas Edward Bowdichs Bericht über seine Exkursion nach São Vicente während seines Aufenthaltes auf Madeira (Bowdich 1825, 49–50): Here I first saw the beautiful fern asplenium palmatum. The filices form by far the most interesting family in Madeira, verifying Baron de Humboldt’s remark, that their maximum may be found in the mountainous parts of small islands […], yet I was disappointed at not finding the dicksonia mentioned by the above author […].

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abondent dans les
îles. Dicksonia
ou arbor. ferns pas
trouvé à Madère
H Bodwich [sic] Tr.
p 49[.] Vermilia bicarina
ta et
Galeoloria elongata
de Nouv Holl
trouvé à
Madère Bodw. [sic]
p 63!
Géographie des
plantes de
Madère Bodw [sic]
p 101, 152[,]
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This genus is, as far as I have been enabled to deter-
mine, confined wholly to Europe: it occurs on the mountains inserted in between the linesin moun-
tainous  inserted above the linedistricts usually at very considerable elevations. There are
only four species; those which were known to Linné were
confounded by him with Jungermannia.

Sphagnum.

I consider that there are only four species of this genus
two of which at least are very widely distributed: Sph.
latifolium occurs in all the marshes of inserted above the linethroughout all Europe. I possess
it also from North america, where I believe it is very wide-
ly dist inserted in between the linesas abundant as in Europe: Michaux has called it
S. vulgare . It is described by Bridel from the straits of
Magellan under the name of S. magellanicum . In the
Isles of Bourbon, France, and New Holland, (and I believe
also in East India) it has also been found. Sphagnum
acutifolium seems nearly as widely distributed, but I
do not recollect of having observed S. squarrosum , or S. cus-
pidatium as occuring out of Europe. Some botanists,
and I think with justice, consider that there is only one
species of this genus.

Phascum.

This genus may be considered as nearly European, & the
species are nearly confinded, as far as has been hitherto observed
to the middle districts of Europe. To the north the species become
few, and finally disappear in the Arctic circle: About the  inserted above the linemiddle & South
of England, Germany, & France, they are found in considerable
numbers, but, whether through the negligence of botanists I
know not, but they are scarcely at all found farther south.
A few of the European species have been found in North a-
merica in Pensylvania [sic] , among these are Ph. subulatum, rectum
[Phascum] crispum, [Phascum] patens, [Phascum] cuspidatum, inserted above the line [Phascum] crassinervium, and perhaps a few others: I consider
Ph. stenophyllum of Voit to be only a variety of; of these Ph. subu-
latum has I believe also been found in New Holland. Ph. co-
herens and Ph. flexuosum are perhaps the only two confined exclu-
sively to N. America (Pensylvania [sic] ). Ph. alternifolium occurs
in Great Britain, in Germany, and, if I mistake not at the
Cape of Good Hope and (if Bridel’s Pleuridium be, as I suppose, the