The only gererally acknowledged plant of this genus is <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>S.</abbr> <expan>Schistostega</expan> </choice> pennata</name> <subst xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <del rendition="#ow">is in</del> <add place="across">& has</add> </subst> hitherto been found only in the middle <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005696 https://www.geonames.org/6255148">Europe</placeName>, as <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005517 https://www.geonames.org/2921044">Germany</placeName> & the South of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0005653 https://www.geonames.org/6269131">England</placeName>. A plant <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />however which perhaps belongs to the genus, the <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">Drepano<g ref="#typoHyphen" /><lb break="no" />phyllum fulvum</name> of <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000887 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117527599">Richard</persName> & <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011993 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11698094X">Hooker</persName>, but very little <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />understood, has been found <del xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" rendition="#s">by <persName ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000887 http://d-nb.info/gnd/117527599">Richard</persName></del> in the woods<lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0007259 https://www.geonames.org/3382160">Cayenne</placeName>, <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010458 https://www.geonames.org/935316">Isle de Bourbon</placeName>, & <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006870 https://www.geonames.org/3504558">Hispaniola</placeName>.