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A SECOND CENTURY
OF FERNS.

A SECOND

CENTURY OF FERNS;

BRING

figures with rrief descriptions

'(9ir ijunUreU

NEW, OR RARE, OR IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES OF

FERNS;

FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD;

SIR WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K.H.,

LL.D., P.B.A., AND L.S. &C. &0.

DIRECTOR OE THE BOYAX BOTANICAL GARDENS, KEW.

LONDON.

WILLIAM PAMPLIN 45, FRITH STREET, SOHO SQUARE.

MDCCCLXI.

QK£Z 3

TO

DR. GEORGE METTENIUS,

PROFESSOR OF BOTANY, AND DIRECTOR OF TIIE BOTANIC GARDEN
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG,

THE ABLE AUTHOR OF

“ EILICES II OUT I BOTANICI LIPSIENSIS,”

AND OF VARIOUS MEMOIRS,

“UBEB EINIGE FABBN GATTUJs GEN,”

THIS CENTURY OF FERNS

IS DEDICATED,

IN TESTIMONY OF GREAT RESPECT AND ESTEEM, BY

THE AUTHOR.

Boyal Gardens, Kew,
May, 1861 .

PREFATORY NOTICE.

Of all the Families of plants, perhaps there is none that
needs so much to be illustrated by figures as the Ferns.
They are, from their variableness of character, and owing -
to the different forms they exhibit in different individuals
of the same species, and even in different parts of the same
individual, especially in the very compound kinds, exceed-
ing 1 / difficult of verbal definition, and hence the descriptions
of writers have been so greatly misunderstood, even those
that have been the most full and most accurately worded.

It was the want of such Fern -figures, as helps to a more
thorough knowledge of these lovely plants, that induced us
to devote the whole of the last volume (the Tenth) of our
<c leones Plantarum,” exclusively, to this Family, and we
think Mr. Pamplin did right in issuing copies of this volume
separate, to those who might not care to possess the entire
work, and under the title of a “Century of Ferns.”
So favourably was this volume received that it has induced
the Author to publish another and “ Second Century',”
the volume now before us.

There is indeed no scarcity of materials for many such
volumes, could sufficient patronage be insured ; for the dis-
covery of new species has of late years been quite extra-
ordinary, in different parts of the world ; and it would be
still more extraordinary if we could persuade ourselves

VU1.

that all that go by the name of new discoveries, were really
so. If we take Mi'. Moore’s useful and laborious “Index
Filicum ” as a test of the numerical statistics of Ferns, the
number appears great indeed. The eleventh part of this
“ Index ” has recently been issued, bringing the Catalogue
down to the letter C, and to the end of the genus Cuspidaria.
Thus the work at present only embraces the Genera (alpha-
betically arranged) of the first three letters of the alphabet
(A — C). These include 47 Genera and 1069 species! The
total of such genera to be recorded are 186, of which about
one-eighth only have been elaborated, so that if we consider
the remaining seven-eighths of the genera to possess the
same proportional amount of species, which may possibly be
the case, this brings us to 8000 different kinds of Ferns
described in books by persons worthy of credit from their
name and character; to say nothing of the multitudes of
synonyms, which are legion.

But it must be recollected that Mr. Moore necessarily
reckons, as species of authors, a great number which he has
no means of verifying, nor of judging whether they ought, or
ought not to be rejected, as he has done in the case of many
others : — and of which there is too much reason to fear that a
large proportion would come into the latter category. If we
reckon the number of well-ascertained Ferns at half the
amount enumerated in the “Index Filicum,” viz. at 4000
species, it will perhaps nearly accord with the truth.

Nothing will so much tend to a correct knowledge of these
as accurate figures, published on a cheap scale, as are the two
“ Centuries ” now under consideration : — and we have had

—

IX.

the privilege of bringing into notice many novelties of great
interest derived from the researches of our friends and corres-
pondents in different quarters of the globe, from some coun-
tries of which, till now, the vegetable productions were
comparatively unknown to the man of science. We allude
particularly to the Fiji Islands, to Japan and China, to
Borneo, Tropical Africa, East and West, &c. &c. ; the results
of the labours of Brackenridge, Milne, Macgillivray, Harvey,
Seemann (Fiji) ; Wright, Wilford, Urquhart, Alcock, Hodg-
son (China and Japan); Low, Motley, Lobb (Borneo);
Yogel, Baikie and Barter, Kirk, in Livingstone’s Expedition
(Tropical Africa), and others too numerous to mention, but
whose names stand recorded in these pages. Not a few we
trust will be found faithfully and unmistakeably exhibited in
our two Centuries ; and many, for which we have no space
here, will be received, and if possible figured in our “ Species
Filicum,*” now in course of Publication.

Royal Gardens, Kew,
May, 1861.

* "Speoibs Filicum; being descriptions of the known Ferns, particularly of such as exist
in the Author’s Herbarium, or are, with sufficient accuracy, described in works to which he
has had access ; accompanied with numerous figures, by Sir W. J. Hooker.” Of this work
three volumes have appeared, with 210 plates. Vol. IV. is now in the press.

INDEX.

TAB.

Acropteris Seelosii Iieufl. • • 82

Aokostichum (Elaphoglossum)

bifurcatum, Siv. . , 91

(Elaphoglossum) dimor-

phum, Hlc. et Or. . . 90

(Elaphoglossum) Eeei,

Bory. .. .. .. 92

(Gymnopteris) Linnfea-

num, Hook 26

triquetrum, Wall. . . 89

(Poecilopteris) virens,
Wall. var. minus,
fuscatum . . . . 88

Adiantum (Euadiantum) flex-

uosum, Hook. . . 61

monochlamys, Eaton . . 50

Aisophida podophylla, Hook. 66
Ampelopteris elegans, Elze. . . 15

Aneimia Mexicana, Kl. var.

paucifolia . . . . 65

speciosa, Pr 65

Anogramme paradoxa, Pee . . 91

Aktbophttjm Brookei, Hook. . . 79

ensiforme, Hook 70

falcatum, Mart, et Gal. 70

Galeottii, Fee 70

Mannianum, Hook. . . 73

Aspidium decursivo-pinnatum,

Kze 49

Aspidium (Polystichum) Thom-

soni, Hook 25

(Polystichum) tripteron,

Kze 57

Asplenittm (Euasplenium) Bar-

teri, Hook 75

concinnum, Wall 29

(Diplazium) crassidens.

Fee 18

TAB.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) da-

vallioides, Hook. . . 40

(Euasplenium) dichoto-

mum, Hook. ■ ■ 39

(Euasplenium) dimor-

phum, Kze 36

(Euasplenium) elegan-

tulum. Hook. . . 28

(Euasplenium) emargi-

natum, Beauv. . ■ 80

emarginatum, Hook. . . 69

(Euasplenium) Eadyeni,

Hook 27

(Euasplenium) ferula-

ceum, Moore . . 38

(Diplazium) fraxinifo-

lium, Wall 19

(Euasplenium) Giberti-

anum, Hook. . . 22

(Euasplenium) Hallii,

Hook 30

ineiso-alatum, Moore . . 22

(Euasplenium) indura-

tum, Hook 68

intermedium, Carm. . . 43

lanceolatum, var. Hook. 28
(Diplazium) Lobbianum,

Hook 17

(Euasplenium) longi-

cauda, Hook. . . 69

(Euasplenium) lugubre.

Hook 3

(Darea) Mannii, Hook. 60
(Athyrium)medium,Oa?’77i. 43
(Euasplenium) Monte-

verdense, Hook. . . 41

(Athyrium)Nigritianum,
Hook 44

IXDEX,

XI.

TAB.

Aspleniwn parvulmn, Hook. . . 11

pectinatum, Mo'ore. . . 30

(Euaspleni urn ) prolon ga-

turri, Hook 42

(Euaspleni am) Quitense,

Hook 20

(Euasplenium) repens,

Hook 31

(Euasplenium) rutaceum,

Mett 34

(Euasplenium) scan dens,

J. Sm 37

(Euasplenium) Seelosii,

Leyb 82

(Euasplenium) teuuifo-

lium, Don 29

(Anisogonium) ternatum,

Liebm 57

(Eudipla/.ium) Thwaite-

sii, A. Brauoi. . . 45

tridactylites , Bartl. . . 82

(Euasplenium) trilobum,

Cav 11

trapezoides, Sw 11

(Eudiplazium) yestitum,

Hook 46

(Euasplenium) Wardii,

Hook 33

(Diplazium) Zeyianicum,

Hook 16

Athyrium fontanum, Eaton . . 28

Botrychiuon Zeyianicum, Sw. . . 94

Botryopteris Mexicana, Presl. . . 94

Campiwn virens, Pr. . . . . 88

Camptosorus Sibiricus, Ituprecht. 35
Cheilanthes ferruginea, Willd. . . 52

CiiEiiANTiiES intramarginalis,
Hook. var. grosse

serrrata 72

Kirkii, Hook 81

Cyathea micropbylla, Metten. 99
Cyrtogonium virens, J. Sm. Var.

minus 88

Da.rea fur cans, Bory 91

Dayallia (Saccoloma?) Den-

hami, Hook 47

(Dareoideasjfoeniculacea,

Hook 54

TAB.

Dayaelia (Cuneatae) Goudo-

tiana, Kze 23

(Odontoloma) LaPeyrou-

sii, Hook 56

(Eudavallia) Moorei,i/X\ 53
(Dareoideee) nigrescens,

Hook 93

(Leucostegia) pilosella,

Hook 96

(Cuneat®) rhomboidea,

Hook 48

(cuneatae ?) tricboma-

noides, Hook. . . 64

Dendroglossa Linnceana, Pee. . . 26

Diplazium crassiclens, Pee. . . 18

eleyaois, Hook 19

externum, J. Sm 46

fraxinifo Hum, Wall. . . 19

vestitum, Pr 46

Elaphoglossum dionorphum.

Moore 90

Feei, Moore 92

Eqxjisetum giganteum, L. 74

Poeppigianum, A. Braun. 74
ramosuon, aliissimum, Plu-
nder 74

Eupodium Kaulfussii, J. Sm. . . 95

Goniopteris prolif era, Pr 15

Graaimitis (Calymmodon) cla-

vifer, Hook 5

cor data, Sw. var. sub-

pinnata 7

(Loxogramme) Salvinii,

Hook 71

Gymnogramme bifurcata, Kze. . . 91

Gyainogeamme pumila, Spreng. 8

reniformis, Mart 9

Gymnopteeis (Leptocbilus) mi-
nor, Hook 78

(Leptocbilus) panduri-

folia, Hook 87

Hecistopteris pumila, J. Sm. . . 8

Helminthostachys duleis, Kaulf. 94
PLeeminthostachts Zeylanica,

Hook. . . 94

Hemtonitis lanceol at a, Hook. 55
PIemitexia (Amphicosmia) pla-

tylepis. Hook. . . 100

INDEX.

TAB.

Hymen OPHXLLUM Simonsianum,

Hook 13

* Hymenostachys crenata, Presl. . . 94

integrifolia, Presl. . . 94

Hypolepis pteridioides, Hook. 59

Lastrea deourrens, J. Sm 49

Leplochilus Linnceanus, Fee. . . 26

minor, Fee 78

Lomaeia (Plagiogyria) euphle-

bia, Kze 89

Lxgoditxm (Eulygodium) poly-

stachyum, Wall. . . 76

Harattia alata, Baddi 95

(Eupodium) Kaulfussii,

/. Sm 95

lewis, Kaulf. . . . . 95

Meniscium proliferum, Sw. . . 15

Microstaphyla furcata, Pr. . . 91

Nepheodium (Lastrea) Fiiiense,

Hook 67

(Lastrea) Milnei, Hook. 62
Niphobolus linearifolius, Hook. 58
NoTHOCHXiENA ferriiginea^iZbo/r. 52

Bawsoni, Pappe 77

rufa, Pr 52

tomentv/m, Desv 52

trichomanoides, Mart, et

Gal 52

Olfersia bif areata, Pr 91

dimorpha, Pr 90

triquetra, Pr. . . . . 89

Onychitjm strictum, Kze. . . 32

Ophioglossum laciniatum., Bumph. 94
Osmunda bifurccUa, Jacq. . . 91

Zeylanica, Linn 94

Phegopteris luxurious, Metten. 15

Plagiogyria triquetra, Metten.
Polybotrya bifurcata, Moore.
Poeybotbya Lechlci'iaua, Mett.
Polypodittm: andinum, Hook.

(Phegopteris) darete-
forme, Hook.
(Phegopteris) decursivo-
pinnatum, VanHall.

luxurious, Kze

myriophyllum, Mett. . .

proliferum, Boxb

(Eupolypodium) Sprueei,

Hook

(Eupolypodium) tenui-

sectum, Bl

(Eupolypodium) tricho-
sorum, Hook.

Pteris fallax, Mart, et Gal.
Pterozonium reniforme, Fee
Scoliosorus ensiformis, Moore . .
Scolopendeium (Camptosorus),

Sibiricum, Hook

Seeagineela Spbtjcei, Hook.
subarborescens, Hook. . .

Yogelii, Spring

Stenochlcma triquetra, J. Sm. . .
Stbutiiioptebjs orientalis, Hook.
Teichomanes cellulosum, Kl.
jiliforme, Sturm. ...
Henzaianum, Parish. . .
"VVoodsia (Physematium) Man-
churiensis, Hook. . .
(Hyinenocystis) polysti-
chioides, Eaton. . .
Xiphopteeis Jamesoni, Hook.

TAB.

89

91

97

6

2 )

49

15

21

15

10

21

12

72

9

70

35

83

84
86
89

4

63

63

1

98

2

14

* An error Melminthoatachys here, and at the page referred to.

TAB. I.

Tkichomanes ILenzaianom, Parish.

Caudice filiformi repente ramoso parce nigro-tomentoso, fron-
dibus parvis remotiusculis brevi-stipitatis obovato - subfla-
belliformibus membranaceis subnitidis hete viridibus vix
semiunciam longis marginibus magis minusve irregulariter
lobatis vix pinnatifidis lobis brevibus obtusis, venis apice
liberis primariis paucis subflabellato-pinnatis satis distinctis,
secundariis iis parallelis arctis deliculatis venulis transversis
junctis et ita ffondibus minute reticulatis, involucris in lobis
frondium venas primarias terminantibus omnino intramar-
ginalibus textura ffondis infundibuliformibus, limbo dilatato
integro, stipite gracili vix lineam longo.

Trichomanes Henzaianum, Parish in lift.

Hab. Detected by Mr. Henzai, and the Rev. C. S. P. Parish,
partially clothing the trunks of trees at Moulmein, 1859.

Di. \ an Den Bosch, of Leyden, distinguished by his wri-
mgs anc admirable figures of Mosses, is now happily engaged
on a monograph, with numerous figures on the beautiful family,
among Ferns, of Hymenophyllacea. He has already given to

S^nT-° rW a , valuable “Synopsis ” of the group, with full de-
scriptions of new or critical species. Our present individual

DeiSr^f t0 Tr \ subl \ m l >aturn of Mueller, to which Yan
Den Bosch refers and probably quite correctly’, my Java form

our uknTmTt^ (SP ' F i lL 1 P - H7 > From that, however,
r plant may be known by its much smaller size, and different

form, greener color, more delicate texture; but, above all bv
the involucre, of which the limh in T P W 7 ' 7 ^ ^

margin of the

abearance of half bey ° n ? the involucre 5 ^ lias, indeed, the

in pp n„raT;2*r X e r cW ,o the fr “ d ’ as —

f 9 ^0 1 • FFnts > nat - size, (from a drawing by Mr Parish >

44e T 5 .° tS ” 8 1 S '“ hj ma ^ d / i “-gle

the sorus. f Q Portion ucles > ° ne open showing
structure, f. 7 r 7 ’ ii h"" 1 ' ‘,° sl >™ th « rcIIuU,,'
highly '“P 3 " 1 ' 5 - «• Capsule;

Cin, 2, t , 1,

Titok del, et lith.

TAB. II.

WoODSIxl (Hymenocystis) polystichioides, Eaton.

Spithamasa ad pedalem dense crespitosa, caudice subnullo,
frondibus subcoriaceo-membranaceis opacis lanceolatis pin-
natis, pinnis patentibus numerosis approximatis sessilibns

. 6-7 lineas longis lanceolatis obtusis basi cuneato-truncatis

sursum acute auriculatis junioribus sparsim paleaceis
villosisque demum glabris margine integerrimis vel apicem
versus obsoletissime crenatis, costa indistincta, venis im-
mersis simplicibus vel furcatis liberis ad marginem apice
soriferis, involucro e squamis 4-5 tenui - membranceis in
orbem dispositis imbricatis longe ciliatis, stipitibus castaneis
rachique straminea nitidissimis deciduo paleaceis.

Wood si a (Hymenocystis) polystichoides, Eaton in Wright's
Herb, of Ringgold and Rodgers U. S. North Pacif. Explor.
Exped.

Hab. Hakodadij Japan, C. Wright.

A very remarkable and very pretty Fem, for which I am
indebted to Mr. Wright and Mr. Eaton, who observe (in litt.)
that this ought, perhaps, to be made the type of a new
genus; for that “the parts of the indusium imbricate over
each other.” It is however, I think, very difficult, where the
indusium (or involucre) is of so very delicate and fragile a
nature, to say whether it is of the structure now mentioned,
or whether, being first entire, it may not afterwards burst from
the top into a few unequal valves, which may appear to be
imbricated, and as is the case in the group or subgenus
Physematium, Klfs. (Hymenocystis, C. A. Meyer), to which
Mr. Eaton has, as it appears to me, properly referred it.

Fi 9 '• L Fertile pinna, seen from beneath, f 2. Portion
ot the same. f. 3. Involucre partially closed. /. 4. In-
volucre open, and showing the sorus. /. 5. Portion of a
valve of the involucre. /. 6. Capsule magnified .

Can, 2. T. 2.

TAB. III.

Asplenium (Euassplenium) lugubee, Hook.

Glabrum, colore toto nigricante, caudice repente crass-
iusculo radiculoso, frondibus casspitosis brevi - stipitatis
spithamieis ad pedalem lato-lanceolatis inferne attenuatis
pinnatia apicem versus pinnatifidis, pinnis sessilibus hori-
zontaliter patentibus segmentisque lanceolato-falcatis vix
acuminatis insequaliter subduplicato-serratis membranaceis
rigidis subopacis, veins simplicibus v. fur cat is apicibus
intra marginem clavatis, soris versus apicem pinnarum vel
segmentorum, involucris angustis nigris, stipitibus rachi-
busque villis paleaceis aterrimis patentibus crinitis.

ITab. Kina Ballu, Borneo, Hugh Low,junr. Esq.

A very peculiar looking Asplenium, entirely of a black
colour in its dried state, having the short stipes and rachis
clothed with patent, long-spreading, intensely black, palea-
ceous flexuose hairs, or scales. The appearance of the entire
plant is that of having grown in water, and the pinna; and
segments are more or less erose, and jagged at the margin,
and the substance is formed of closely compacted cells, in the
younger and subpellucid specimens exhibiting a minutely

reticulated appearance, when held between the eye and the
light.

Fig. 1. Portion of a pinna to show the venation. /. 2 Por-
tion of a fertile pinna. /. 3. Scale from the rachis:-™™-

Cent. 2. t. 3.

TabJll.

K

TAB. IV-

Struthiopteris orientals, Hook,

Elata, frondibus ovatis ovato-oblongisve pmnatis, pmnis
sterilibus pinnatifidis submembranceis lacmiis ovatis obtusis,
fertilibus lato-linearibus coriaceis planis, mvolucns . arete
appressis dorsum totum tegentibus intense badns nitidissi-
mis integerrimis, demum affate patentissimis erosis, stipite
raebi costisque interne deciduo-paleaceis.

Struthiopteris Germanica, Eaton in Wright's Herb, of U. 6.
N. Pacif. Expl. Expd. of Ringgold and Rodgers.

Hab. Sikkim Himalaya, elev. 12,000 ft., Drs. Hooker and
Thomson. Assam, Simons, in Herb. Lady Lyell. Hako-
dadi, Japan, C. Wright.

A single glance at the fertile pinnae of this fine species,
is sufficient to assure any one of its distinctness from S.
Germanica, of Willdenow (Pensylvanica of the U. States
Botanists) ; not only are they much longer and broader and
flatter, (less cylindrical) and never monihform ; but the invo-
lucre is of a very different nature, so broad as completely
to cover the back of the pinnules, the entire edges meeting
at the back, and never breaking up into uniform segments ;
and the texture is thin and membranaceous, but firm, very
glossy, and of a very dark chestnut colour, suddenly con-
duplicate, and pressed close to the sori on the back ; whereas
in S. Germanica, the moniliform fertile pinnae have the invo-
lucre rolled back as it were, so as to cover the sori, and of
the same texture and color as the pinna itself. The sterile
frond too, which is much attenuated at the base, is here
abrupt. As a species, it may probably be found to have as
extensive a range in the Eastern, as S. Germanica has in the
Western world, (including Europe in this region), for it has
already been found in. Sikkim Himalaya. I detected one
specimen in a collection of Assam Ferns; and it appears
again in the Northern Island of Japan, Hakodadi.

Fig. 1. Small fertile pinna. /. 2. Portion of a fertile
pmna; magnified, f. 3. Portion of a sterile frond; nat.
size. f. 5. Portion of a sterile pinna, showing the venation ;
magnified ,

Cent. 2, t. 4,

Tab. TV . :

Titc\ 3el,etlith.

PaTopJm,iJnp.

TAB. V.

Grammitis (Calymmodon) clavifer, Hook.

Caudice crassiusculo repente, frondibus vix stipitatis digitali-
bus. firmis rigidis dense csespitosis lineari-lanceolatis pin-
natis, pinnis remotis patentibus apice piliferis, sterilibus
angustissime linearibus, fertilibus spathulatis acutis maroine
superiore reflexo, vena (seu costa) solitaria infra apicem
terminante clavata sorifera, soris solitariis oblongis apicem
dilatatum pinna; occupantibus, rachi angusta lineari-suba-
lata patentim yillosa.

Hab. Kina Ballu, Borneo, Hugh Low,junr. Esq.

. As far as I can judge from Fee’s figure and description of
his Pectopteris gracilis , it is identical with the Calymmodon
cucullata of Presl, and the Grammitis cucullata of Blume, and
o J . omith ; and no less so with Grammitis denticulata of
Biume, (Polypodium cucullatum of Nees and Blume in Nov.
Act. Acad. Bat. Cur., and P. denticulutum of Bl. Syn. Fil
Jav ) If this be correct, this genus (or section of Polypodium
o Grammitis, according- to the views of Botanists,) is reduced
to a solitary species; but to this I have added the very

Gmmlil ern It D?W '/r/ 8 - Which 1 P refer staining in
Grammitis. It is readily distinguished by the more slender

miMIe or upper part of the fS 7 CWlfined to lte

Cent, 2. x, 5, J

J •

ToJbJ.

Etch, del .el litk.

!Pamplni,imp.

TAB. VI.

POLYPODIUM ANDINUM, Hook.

Caudice brevi repente, frondibus membranaceis ciespitosis
digitalibus ad semipedalem oblongo-linearibus vix acumi-
Ija tis ad basin attenuatis fulvo-villosis ciliatisque ad raar-
ginem solummodo pinnatifidis, lobis brevibus obtusis, costa
tenui, venis furcatis intra margin em desinentibus, venula
superiore perbrevi apice sorifera, soris globosis subelhp-
ticisve prope costam utrinque uniserialibus singulo lobo
oppositis.

Hab. Andes of Quito, on the banks of the river Hondacha,
Jameson, n. 780. On Mount Picote, near Moyobambu;
Peru, C. W. Nilson (in Spruce's Plants of Peru, n. 4780 ).

A very pretty and very peculiar species of the extensive
Genus Polypodium, of which I do not find any description,
and which seems confined to the Andes of Ecuador and
Peru ; at least, I have seen it from no other quarter. It is
remarkable in the almost ligulate form of the small thin and
membranaceous fronds, cut at the margin, with great regu-
larity, into very short and obtuse lobes ; the whole, on both
surfaces, and at the margin, clothed with long, but rather
sparse fulvous hairs. The color is pale green ; in the older
specimens stained with yellow and brown. The fronds seem
destitute of stipes, and are decurrent to their very base,
where the costa is often blackish. It may rank near the
West Indian P . Serricula of F ee, but that has much narrower
fronds, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes 1-veined, and the sorus
placed within the lobe.

„ ^ • Portion of the sterile frond, showing the venation.

j. 2. Portion of a fertile frond : — magnified.

Ceitt, 2. T. 8.

Tub XL

Titch.. del. et Tith. .

Pa mi’ Liu, imp-

*

TAB. VII.

Gbammitis cordata, Sw. var. subbipinnata.

Caudice brevi crasso copiose radiculoso superne paleaceo, stipi-
tibus CfGspitosis 1-2-uncialibus rachique deciduo squamosis
intense nigro-ebeneis nitidissimis, frondibus erectis flexuosis
curvatisve subcoriaceis 3-4-uncialibus ad spithamasam supra
viridibus nndis subtus dense imbricatis ferrugineo-paleaceis
pinnatis, squamis ovato-lanceolatis magis minusve longis
acuminatis subciliato-dentatis subintegerrimisque, pinnis
semiunciam ad 1| unciam longis remotinsculis sessilibus
cordato-oblongis oblongisve horizontabter patentibus iu-
tegris lobato-pinnatifidis magis minusve profundis non
raro iterum pinnatis rarius subauriculatis, venis liberis
furcatis apice clavatis, soris oblongis.

Grammitis cordata, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 23 and 217. Willd. Sp,
PI. 5. p. 142. Gymnogramme cordata, Schlect. Adumbr.
Pl.p. 16. Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 156. Acrosticbum cor-
datum, Th. FI. Cap. p. 732.

Hab. S. Africa; throughout the Cape Colony, I believe,
plentiful, extending eastward to Uitenhage, and the
elevated mountains of Macalisberg {Ecklon and Burke)
St. Helena, elev. above the sea, 2400 feet. Dr. Alexander ,

n u V 'A m IIerb A Nostr '> and Mr - Houghton, Herb., Trin.
Coll. IJubl., et Nostr.

Kunze and Mowing him, all succeeding authors have pronounced that
the admirable figine of Gymnogramme “ cordata of Dr. Greville in Ic Til
is not the Grammitis cordata of Swartz; but they refer it f n thn r r ' •

Ark

oblongis profunde pinnatifidis pinnatismie' Su } bl P nnata : P m nis angusto-
w Zeyh. PI. Cap. (Herb Nostr £ !? Gymnogramme Capensis, Spr.
De Gen. Fil. U. 30./ f (ItUb M 183 ' £ etera< * Ca P^is,

subvariety of the latter, i. Nudiuscull 1 ma ? add > , a 4th state, or a

mmonbus subintegerrimis. Gymnoeninme w“ dlbuS pal - 0e P aleaceis > squamis'
fyn Fit. Afr. Austr. p. 42. This “is 1 f 01111f ] w\ qU + D +| S ’ P PPP e an dRawson,
Helena. ma 13 tou M both at the Cape, and in St!

Hg. 1. Scale of the frond /' o tv ,

cLtr lion> “ nd 3 - «“">•

Tab . V1L,

TAB. VIII.

GrTMNOGRAMME pumila, Spreng

Caudice repente filiforrai parce fibroso, frondibus fasciculatis
lg-biuncias longis ad basin setaceo - paleaceis sessilibus
submembranaceis flabefiiformi-cuneatis basi longe atten-
ds superne palmatim irrcgulariter subdicbotome in-
cisis, segraentis acutinsculis integerrimis, venis flabellato-
dichotomis (costa nidla) liberis ante apicem evanescentibus,
soris linearibus elongatis non raro (cum venis) dichotomis
demum magis minusve confluentibus.

Gymnogramme pumila, “ Spreng . Tent. Suppl. ad Sgst. Veg.p.

31.” Kze. Analecta Pterid. p. 11. t. 8. /. 1. Moore, Lid. Fil
p. bni.

Hecistoptens pumila, J. Sm. in Lond Journ. of Bot. 1 ». 193
Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 179. t. 16. B.

T '° P if 1 1 ^T“- Smira ”> fee, in moist woods,
f F Guwm - Brazil, Para, R. Spruce

W58 ' * » f C VH coast ofVeragnal, SeZZ

A very distinct and remarkable Fern • till

posed to be peculiar to French and n t l n 7 ’ SUp '

found in Brazil and sHl ° h Gmana ’

v»razu, and, still more recent y e ven offt *.

of Veraguas in the Pacific. C ° aSt

Fi( J- 1 - Fertile frond,
of a fertile frond, with
receptacle : — magnified.

f 2. Sterile frond, f 3. p ortion
son partially removed from the

Cent. 2. t, 8.

Tab. VJU .

_ it c”h , 3d, etHifli.

IPaigplinrimj.

TAB. IX.

Gymnogrammb reniformis, Mart.

Caudice brevi crasso basi fibroso superne. copiose paleaceo,
squamis subulatis ferrugineis nitidis, stipitibus caespitosis
3-uncialibus ad semipedalem ebeneis, frondibus sesquiun-
cialibus coriaceis reniformi-rotundatis, venis approximate
flabellatis dichotomis, soris linearibus parallelis in zonam
semilunatam discum occupantem confluentibus.
Gymnogramme reniformis. Mart. Ic. PI. Crypt, p. 88. t. 26.
Pterozonium reniforme, Fee Gen. Fil.p. 178. tab. 16. A. Moore ,
Ind. Fil.p. lxi.

Hab. Brazil ; dense woods on Mount Cupati, near tbe River
k Japura, Martins. Near Tarapota, Eastern Peru, on Mount
Guayrapurima, Spruce, 1856.

One of the rarest and most beautiful of Ferns, with its
undivided reniform fronds, and the curious crescent-shaped
mass of sori, and the glossy ebeneous stipites. I am not
aware that it has ever been gathered, but by the two eminent
Botanists and S. American travellers just mentioned. Mr.
Moore, in adopting the Genus Pterozonium , does not fail to
remark, that it is “technically not very different from
Gymnoyramme, but the aspect of the plant is so peculiar, that
t le parallel contiguous receptacles, from which result a broad
submarginal confluent sorus, may well be considered sufficiently
di.tinetive. I am not aware that its habit is more peculiar in
e genus than the Gymnoyramme figured in our preceding
plate, which, nevertheless, Mr. Moore properiy Snslf
that genus rather than adopt J. Smith and Fbe’s ffecistopteris

FeSent Fem « DOt m ° re -markabtlong

asarSm and ^
reniformis, are in

tahf artlUS appearS t0 ^ ave S at hered specimens nearly a foot

Portwn^f h s howfnttb tllC fl ° nd5 Seen from beneath. /. 2.
veins, and the'receptades i-mayS.^ ^ ^ ^ ° Q the

Ceitt. 2. T. 9.

TAB. X.

Polypodium (Eupolyfodium) Sfrucei, Hook,

Nanum, caudice brevi subfiliformi repente, stipitibus dense
cffispitosis vix bilinearibus, frondibus membranaceis subun-
ciam longis oblongo-subspathulatis obtusis indivisis in-
tegerrimis utrinque marginibus stipitibusqne villis longis
ferrugineis basi latioribus scariosis pilosis, costa gracili flex-
uosa, venis obliquis remotis simplicibns apice clavatis intra
marginem terminantibus, soris paucis in apieem venarum
superiorum globosis.

Hab. Near Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 4746.

I do not find, anywhere described, a species which will agree
with this ; notwithstanding, the valuable “ Enumeratio Speci-
erum ” of the Genus Polypodium, lately published by Met-
temus, in which he enumerates 268 species : but, in so doing
he considers Polypodium in its more extended, or I may say,
Willdenovian sense; omitting, however, Phegopteris, of which,
he has a separate “ Enumeratio,” of no less importance.

Fig- Back and front view of a frond; magnified.
Apex of a fertile frond -.—more magnified.

/. 2 .

Cm, 2. t, io.

Tab, X.

/

~E±ck del,etliiK.

.PaJnplia^ittfp.

TAB. XL

Asplenium (Euasplenium) trilobum, Cav.

Parvum, caudice crassiusculo erecto ad apicem paleaceo,
squamis imbricatis nitidis, stipitibus cmspitosis 2-2L
pollices longis, frondibus coriaceis rhombeis acuminatis
integris crenatisve 3-lobis vel rarius 3-partitis segmentis
acuminatis magis minusve incisis lobo intermedio longiore,
venis immersis pluries subflab ellatim dichotomis, soris
majusculis erecto-patentibus lineari-oblongis, involucris
rigidis fuscis.

Asplenium trilobum, Cav. Prcel. 181, p. 255. Willd. Sp. PI.
5. p. 306. Hook. Spec. Fil. v. 3. ined. Gay , Fil. Chil. 6. p.

499. Metten. Asplen. p. 146.

Asplenium trapezoides, Sw. Syn. Fil.p. 76. Willd. Sp. PI. 5.
p. 306. Schk. Fil. t. 6 7. Gay, Fil. Chil. 6. p. 499. Metten.
Asplen. p. 146.

Asplenium pa,rvulum (small state), Hook. Ic., Pl. t. 222.

Hab. S. Chili and Chiloe, Poeppig, Caming. n. 820 ; Captn.
Ph. King, W . Lobb. Lechler, Gay, Harvey, §~c. 8fc. Peru. ?
( Swartz J. Mariane Islands? ( Willdenow ). S. Brazil,

Tweedie, in Herb, nostr.

A species easily recognized by its size and trapezoid form.
A. trapezoides, indeed, is a more appropriate name than A.
trilobum ; but the latter has the right of priority. Our Aspl.
parvulum of the leones Plantarum, is merely a smaller and
young sta,te of this; we were the more disposed to think it
distinct, from, its being detected on the Atlantic side of
“ bavm S been Previously known only on the Pacific

dig. 1. Portion of a frond -.—magnified.

Cffll. 2. t. 11,

TAB. XII.

Polypodium (Eupolypodium) trichosorum, Hook.

Caudice subrepente crassiusculo fulvo-crinito, stipitibus cees-
pitosis 2-3-uncialibus gracilibus filiformibus, frondibus indi-
yisis 4-5-uncialibus subspathulato-lanceolatis membranaceis
translucidis flavo-viridibus obtusiusculis integerrimis yel
crenato-lobulatis (lobis obtusis) supra parce subtus margini-
bus stipiteque pilis ferrugineis patentibus longis copiose
crinitis, venis patentibus flexuosis subclichotome pinnatis,
venulis apice clavatis, soris sub-4-serialibus parvis in apicem
venularum, pilis plurimis inter capsulas.

Hab. On Trees, forest of Archedona, Quitinian Andes, Prof.
W. Jameson , n. 349.

This is one among the many Andinian Ferns, which, as far
as my researches extend, I take to be new, and for which I
am indebted to Prof. W. Jameson’s zeal and kindness.
It is a graceful F ern, probably pendent in its native locality,
judging from the slenderness of the stipes and a peculiar
curvature in many of the specimens at the setting on of the
frond upon the stipes.

. Fi 9‘ 1- Portion of the upper side of a frond. /. 2. 3 por-
tions of the underside with sori -.—magnified.

-Cent, 2 , T , 12,

Tab. £11.

T arapl m ;imp .

lEtch^deL etUth..

#■

TAB. XIII.

Hymenophyllum Simonsianum, Hook.

Caudice filiformi gracili longe repente, frondibus solitariia
distantibua oblongo-lanceolatis membranaceis laxis fuscis
bipinnatifidis in stipitem brevem gracilem basi attenuate
apice obtusis, lobis primariis semiuncialibus oblique cuneatis
sub lente argute serratis margine inferiore truncatis integris
superiore cum apice lobato-pinnatifidis, lobulis paucis (3-5)
obtusissimis, involucris in lobis terminalibus frondis ovalibus
subobovatisque exsertis profunde bivalvibus, valvis convexis
subspinuloso-serratis, venis apice clavatis, soris inclusis re-
captaculum tegentibus.

Hab. Khasya Hills, Eastern Bengal, Simons.

This does not appear to be anywhere described, though it
must be confessed, that in so extensive a natural genus, it
is very difficult, and in a few words, to define the character

of any particular kind. Accurate figures are most to be de-
pended upon.

Fig. I A superior fertile lobe. /. 2. Involucre laid open
vertically shewing the sorus. /. 3. Entire involucre

Ceut. 2, i, 13,

Tdb.Xl ll

tab xiv.

Xiphoptekis Jamesoni, Hook.

Caudice parvo (ut videtur) repentc, stipitibus giacilibus sub-
semiunciam longis nudis, _ frondibus 4 polbces longis
lineam latis erectis subcoriaceis pallide viridibus profunde
ad rachin fere pinnatifidis apice in caudam longam i n _
tegerrimam soriferam terminantibus, lobis horizontalibus e
basi latiore oblongis obtusis univeniis, venis internis simpli-
cibus apice clavatis, soris in caudam terminalem linearibus
venas totas tegentibus confluentibus, capsulis longe pedi-
cellatis.

Hab. Andes of Quito, Prof. W. Jameson.

That the species of the Genus Xipliopteris are very vari-
able, is notorious to every student of Ferns; and, I be-
lieve that the X. myosuroides and X. serrulata are now gene-
rally looked upon as forms of one species. It may, there-
fore, be considered a bold step to constitute a species of the
present singular and particularly neatly formed kind, which
at first sight, and independent of its fertile caada, has more
the appearance of some neckeroid moss, or some delicately
pinnated Jungermannia, than a Fern. Instead of being only
strongly “ toothed ” as is characteristic of Xipliopteris gene-
rally, it is so deeply pinnatified, nearly to the rachis, that it
might almost be called pinnate : and in an advanced state of
the plant, these segments or pinnae, fall off partially or en-
tirely, leaving the rachis like a long, stout, naked bristle.

Mr. Moore, whose views always deserve attention, observes,
that to him the son of the genus appear to be produced in a
fine contiguous to the mid-rib, and seem little different from
Pleurogramme. To me, they appear to be decidedly on the
hnckened veins, extending from the costa to the apex,

same e^ D ^ ?° c lfficult is fbr a11 to see with the

Of the SSoZnot “ the sl ™ ture

Cent. 2. t. 14.

Ti'h, XIV.

TAB. XV.

Meniscium proliferum, Sw.

Deciduo pubescens, caudice crassiusculo subrepente fibr 0so ,
sti pitibus ccespitosis erectis longitudine variantibus, frondi.
bus pedalibus bipedalibus et ultra subcoriaceis glabri s
pinnatis apicibus et in axillis pinnarum repetitim prolif er ; a
longissime extensis, pinms 3 - 6 . uncias longis . sessilibua
oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi equalibus yel juniorIbu 3
prjecipue inferne dilatato-rotundatis superne auriculatia
integris vel (adultis) grosse crenato-serratis, venis pinnatis
venuhs omnibus cum ns oppositis junctis et venas spurias
intermedias formantibus, soris ovalibus copiosis, singulo i n
singula yenula non raro confluentibus.

Meniscium proliferum, Sw. Syn. PL p. 19. and 207. Willd. Sp
Pl. 5. p. 135.

Polypodium proliferum, Roxb. Herb. Wall. Cat. n. 312, ( not
Kaulfuss.)

Polypodium luxurians, Kze. in Linncea, 23. p. 280.
Phegopteris luxurians, Metten. Phegopt. p. 25.

Goniopteris prolifera, Pr. Tent.p. 183. J. Sm. in Hook. Journ.
Bot. 3, p. 396.

Ampelopteris elegans, Kze. Bot. Zeit. 6. p. 114., Moore, Ind.
Fil.p. Ixiv.; and A. firma, Kze. in Linnaea, 24, p. 251. Moore
Index. 1. c.

Hab. India, Koenig. Nepal, Oude, Sylhet, ( Wallich ,) and
apparently all over India ; from Nilgbiri and N. Western
India, Khasya, and Sikhim, Himalaya in the East, Griffith,
Hooker, fil. and Thomson, Jacquemont, n. 1419, Schmidt, &c.
8fc. Luzon, Cuming, n. 168. Java, Zollinger.

This is, doubtless, a very sportive plant, but its main
teature is occasioned by its extraordinary tendency to send
out new plants from axillary and terminal gemrme, which
take root, cover a great extent of ground, and hinder the
real form and structure of the frond from being distinctly

have been 6 c , onccivc > W, V so “any names should

new gei J g ° <h ”‘ f knt ' and ‘he honor of a

fev^io’ 1; ^ aSe a P“ na 5 seen from above, f 2 Base of a
fertile pmna, seen from beneath f 3 P* {■' et
pinna, from ne Q ,. +i • i n yain ‘ /• Portion of a fertile

“ 1 1 86611 fr ° m beneath -—magnified.

lab XV.

.

TAB. XVI.

Asplenium (Diplazium) Zeylanicum, Hook .

Caudice terete repente subterraneo nudo fibroso-radicaute,
stipitibus sparsis solitariis squamis laxis intense fuscis lan-
ceolato-subulatis paleaceis 4-uncias ad spithamseam longis,
frondibus lanceolatis acuminatis subcoriaceo-membranaceis
spithamafis ad pedalem 1-2-uncialibus latis profunde pinnati-
fidis basi pinnatis apice subintegris serratisve, lobis pinnisque
patentibus oblongis obtusissimis integerrimis, venis remotia
furcatis, soris linearibus, involucris venula basi superiore
loborum pivecipue diplazioideia.

Hab. Ceylon, banks of a large stream of Kotmalee Oija, elev.
4,000 feet, Gardner , n. 1249. I have received a specimen
also, from Mr. T/maites, but possibly from Mr. Gardner’s
collection.

I possess only two specimens of this distinct looking dipla-
zioid Asplenium, and venture to constitute a species of it
though it may possibly be a young form (yet in very good
fructification) of some compound species, which time, and
further researches only can show.

Fig. 1 . Sterile lobe, f 2. Fertile lobe: — magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 16.

ToXX-Vl

"PanqiliiL.imp

tab. XVII.

ASPLENITTM (DlPLAZIUM) LOBBIANUM, Hook.

Fronde sesquipedali ovato-acuminata subcoriaceo-membra-
nacea pinnata, pinnis 5-6-uncias longis 1| unciam latis
petiolatis patentibus oblongis acuminatis paululum falcatis
basi superiore truncata rachi pai'allela rarius subauiiculatis,
inferiore cuneata vel subrotundata marginibus serratis, pinnis
supremis sensim minoribus confluentibus, venis subhorizon-
tabbus fasciculatis 1-terve dichotomis, Boris solitariis (asplen-
ioideis) vel geminatis (diplazioideis) non raro subscolopen-
drioideis nec costam nec marginem attingentibus.

Hab. Java, Thos. Lobb. 1846.

This may possibly be included among the 12 species of
pinnated Diplazium of Java, enumerated by Blume : but the
characters of that author are so very brief, and unaccom-
panied by figures, which are such great helps in critical
species, that I had better avoid all allusion to them, and con-
tent myself with saying, that among my own numerous
diplazioid Asplenia , there is none to which I can refer this : —
nor can I find that it corresponds with any one known to me
of other countries.

I possess but one frond, and that without caudex or stipes.

Fig. 1. Lowest pinna, nat. size. f. 2. Portion of a fertile
pinna, magnified.

Cent. 2, i, 17.

Tub XV II.

TAB. XVIII.

Asplenium (Diplazium) CRASSIDENS, Fee.

Stipite stamineo-fusco spithammo nudo, fronde subpedall
coriaceo-membranacea atro-viridi subtus pallidioie opaca
pinnata, pinnis panels remotis 10-11 brevi-petiolatis paten-
tibus remotis 4-uncialibus insequilaterali-ovato-lanceolatis
basi oblique attenuato-cuneatis subito acuminatis subgrosse
serratis pracipue supra medium, supremis subdecurrenti-
sessilibus ultimis tribus in unica hastiformi confluentibus,
venis approximate furcatis v. bis-terve dichotomis magis
ramosis in pinna terminali, soris obliquis paiallelis asqualibus
e costa ad marginem attingentibus non raro praecipue ad
apicem frondis diplazioideis, involucris fuscis.

Diplazium crassidens, Fee, 8 me. Mem . p. 82. Metten. Asplen.
p. 151.

Hab. N. Grenada, Paramos of Ocana, elev. 10,000 feet,
Schlim , n. 393.

A peculiar looking species, with a costa dividing the pinna
into 2 unequal portions, the upper half being the broadest. It
is remarkable for the great regularity and length of the
brown sori, extending, as they do, from the costa to the
margin.

Fig. 1. Terminal fertile pinna seen from beneath : — nat. size,
f. 2. Portion of the same with sori : — magnified.

Cist. 2. t. 18.

Tnb.X VIII-

1 J a~m.plm 7 imp

tab. XIX.

AsP ,,«™ CD®**"*) ™ X ” P0LroM ’

Wall.

, v ; x r epen te copiose crasse fibroso
Candice crasso dechmi aggregate srepe pedalibua

apice mgro-palewse®* { n f er iore prmcipue laxe et deciduo
fuscis subrobustis pa dibug pe dabbus ad sesquipedalem

nigresoente-paleM^ ;* bnitentib is siccitate fuscis pinnatis,
Z 11 netiolatis patentibus 6-8-10-uncialibus

nigresoeuic . bnItent ibus siccitate niseis pini aus,

subconaceis dim s tentibus 6-8-10-uncialibus

pinms remotis 3 1 ■ P , d-acuminatis mtegernmis basi

late oblongo-lanceolatis tenm dicllotom ; 8

suboblique cuueat. ’’f, Boris copiosis lineari-

gj£ ."ST fere ad r»»gmem oootinuis, iuyolucriu

Aspleniura fraxinifolium, WA Cat »• 194.

Diplazium fraxinifolium, Wall. Herb. 1823. Moore, Index Til.

Diplariun, elegans, Hook. in. rlorul. Hang-Kma,. f™Bard
Msc , var. venis liberis. C. Wright in Herb, of U. S. Expl.
Exped., under Commodores Ringgold and Rodgers, and in
Herb. Nostr.

IIab. Penang, Wallich. Sincaporc, Thomas Lobb. n. 33. Khasya,
Griffiths. Assam, Griffiths, Simons, Hooker fil. et Thom-
son. Hong-Kong, Mr. Alexander, Dr. Harland, Wilford, C.
Wright.

This fine Fern has been largely distributed by the _ late
Dr. Wallich, under the name of Asplenium (Diplazium)
fraxinifolium ; and I am desirous of making it known to the
botanical world ; for as far as I am aware, it has been noticed
by no Fern-author in any way, save that, in Moore’s Index
Filicum, Wallich’s Asplenium fraxinifolium is called ‘‘ Di-
plazium fraxinifolium." My impression is that this Fern,
with its free venation will prove specifically identical with
Diplazium (Oxygonium) elegans, figured in Flook. Ic. PI. t.
939-940, notwithstanding the anastomosing venation of the
latter. I would observe, too, that the Diplazium alter n folium,
111. (and Hook. Fil. Exot. Tab. 17) has, though possessing much
broader pinnae, great affinity with this ; but the whole group of
diplazioid Asplenia require a careful study and revision, which
we trust to attempt ere long.

^9;} • Portion of a fertile frond seen from beneath : —
magnified.

Chit. 2 , i, 19,

Tab. XIX

tab. xx.

ASPLENIUM (Euasplenium) quitense, Hook.

Parvum, caudice filiform! repente lfic illio inferne radiculoso,
stipitibus subfasciculatis 3-4 ex eodem puncto 1 J unciam
longis nudis gracilibus herbaceis superne una cum rachibus
marginato-alatis, frondibus2J-3i uncias longis submembra-
naceis atroviridibus lanceolatis pinnatis, pinnis 6 — 9-jugis
horizontaliter patentibus sublonge petiolatis oblique ovatis
pinnatifido-lobatis basi infeme cuneato-incisis, lobis obtusis
integerrimis basi superiore lobo majore auriculaeformi bi-
trifido, yenis simplicibus vel (in auriculam) bi-trifurcatis
apice intra marginem clavatis, soris majusculis oblongis,
involucro membranaceo latiusculo.

Asplenium Quitense, Hook. Spec. Fil. vol. 3. ined.

Hab. On decayed trees in the forest of Archedona, Qui-
tinian Andes. Prof. W. Jameson, n. 707.

I refer this distinct and very pretty Fern, to the Tricho-
manes division of Euasplenium, and it has some affinity with
several of the less rigid, herbaceous species of that section ;
but is peculiar in the slightly winged rachis, the very dis-
tinctly petiolated, rather deeply phmatifid, lobate pinme, and,
above all, in the long filiform creeping caudex.

Fig. 1. Sterile pinna,
beneath, f 3, Portion of

f 2. Fertile pinna, seen from
a pinna, with sorus : — all magnified.

Cent. 2 , t. 20 .

TahXX.

del.etlitii.

ParapiLaj-mp.

TAB. XXI.

Polypodium (Eupolypodium) tenuisectum, Bl .

Caudice “repente sublignoso,” stipitibus solitariis erectia
flexuosis pibs setisve ferrugineis patentibus hispidissimis,
frondibus digitalibus ad dodrantalem lato-lanceolatis acu-
minatis rigido - subcoriaceis sparse setaceo-pilosis, pinnis
primariis remotiusculis 2-pollicaribus lineari-acuminatis
patentibus, pinnulis 1| lineam longis sessilibus linearibus
acutiusculis integerrimis inferne subdecurrentibus univeniis,
venis dimidiae pinnarum longitudine apice clavatis, soris
solitariis globosis ad basin yenarum insertis, rachi com-
pressa.

Polypodium tenuisectum, Bl. En. Fil. Jav. p. 134. Fil. Jav.
p. 189. tab. 88. A. Mett. Fil. Leclil. p. 5. tab. 2. f. 1 — 3.
Metten. Polypod. p. 54.

Polypodium myriopbyllum, Mett. 1. c. p. 6.

Hab. In clefts of rocks and on old trees, on the lofty moun-
tains of Java, Blume. Trunks of trees, near Tatanara,
Peru, Lechler.

The only localities known of this elegant and rare species
of Polypodium , are the high mountains of Java, and those of
the P eruvian Andes. I possess, indeed, only Peruvian speci-
mens ; but they quite accord with Blume’s figure.

Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile pinna with pinnules, f, 2.
Sterile prnna : — magnified.

Cmi, 3. x, 21.

I

tab. xxil

JMO. (Ebaspu*™) G.beettanum, Hook

rio=/.P!iflpntc copiose radiculoso superne setoso-

Caudice c ^ ss0 A ibug numer0 sis cajspitosis vix unciam longig
squamoso, f > demum dorso pr£ ecipue castaneis su-

p°e“ne re Sati8, frondibus subsemipedalibus lanceolate mem-
branaceis pulchre viridibus pinnate, pmnisnumerosis approx-
irnatis i-a-undam longis patentibus ovato-lanceolatis pro-
funde pinnatifidis sessilibus basi oblique cuneatis et in alam
ntbi sculam lontre (usque ad insertionem) pum® adjacentis
inferioris profunde pinnatifidis, lobis oblongo-lanceolate
acutissimis integerrimis infernis subcuneatis biquadnfidis
pinnis infimis subflabelliformibus, venis simplicibus vel in
laciniis 2— 4-fidis bi-furcatis, soris oblongis discoidalibus (e
marine et costa remotinsculis), involucro membranaceo
albido, racbi insigniter compressa herbaoea apice saspiua
longe excurrente prolifera.

Asplenium Gibertianum, Hook. Spec. Fil. vol. 3. ined.

Asplenium inciso-alatum, Moore, MS. in Herb. Hook, and in
Index Fil. p. 137. ( name only).

Hab. Assumption, State of Paraguay, (not Island of As-
sumption, as given by Mr. Moore), M. Gibert.

A very delicate and beautiful species, of which I have seen
only one fine specimen, kindly sent me by M. Gibert, a
gentleman chiefly resident at Monte Video, but who has
contributed much to our knowledge of the Nat. History of
Paraguay, and to whom I desire to dedicate the species. It
belonging to a family of plants, of which there are compara-
tively few representatives in Paraguay, judging from the
proportion of them with other plants that have yet come to
us. It will rank near the well-known Aspl. cicutarium.

Fig. 1- Sterile pinna and winged rachis. f. 2. Fertile
pinna and winged rachis. f. 3. Bifid segments of a pinna
and sorus -.—magnified.

Cent, 2, T. 22.

Tab, XXII .

Tampliaimp

1

TAB. XXIII.

DAVALLIA (CDNEATiE) GOUDOTIANA, Kze.

Pumila, caudice repente gracili, stipitibus remotia solitariis
unciam sesquiunciam longis gracilibus basi parce squamosis,
ffondibus 3-4-uncialibus lanceolatis paululum acuminatis
membranaceis pinnatis glaberrimis, pinnis subsessilibus
profunde subtripinnatifidis g unciam longis, laciniis omni-
bus cuneatis integris vel bifidis obtusis, venis seu costis
simplicibus v furcatis, soris solitariis in apicibus segmen-
torum utrinque vel uno latere dente instructis involucrum
paullo excedente, involucris renifonnibus bivalvibus.
Davallia Goudotiana, Kze. in Annal. Pterid. p. 35. t. 22. f. 2.
Hook. Sp. Fil 1 .p. 188. tab. L. C.

Hab. Madagascar, Goudot, Dr. Lyall, and Bojer , in Herb.
Nostr.

Having received from tbe late Professor Bojer of Mauritius,
more perfect specimens than I was possessed of, when pub-
lishing the first vol. of my « Species Filicum,” I gladly
publish figures of them on the present occasion.

Fig.\. Portion of a fertile frond, f. 2. Segments with
sori and involucres -.—magnified.

Cent, 2, j, 23.

lub.XXW .

^.^etOitL

P ampliiijimj .

1

TAB. XXIV.

Polypodium (Pheq-opteris) dareasforme Hooh,

Caudice crassiusculo brevi subrepente dense ferrugineo-pa-
leaceo squamis lanceolatis acuminatissimis, stipite 4-unciali
nitido pallide castaneo, fronde spithamaia ovato-deltoidea
submembranacea bipinnata, pinnis primariis 4-5 uncias l on n-; s
11 unciam latis oblongo-lanceolatis subsessilibus acuminatls"
pinnis oblongo-ovatis subbipinnatifidis laciniis obovato-
linearibus obtusissimis simplicibus vel bifidis, venis seu costis
m divisiombus solitariis ante apicem terminantibus clavatis
sons solitariis parvis ad basin laciniarum ultimatum, capsulis
in utroque soro perpaucis.

Hab. Khasya bill, Simons, n. 98.

This fin ely cut Polypodium bas some affinity with Polypod.
tenmsectum, Bl. and perhaps, still more, with Blume’s P.
millefolium, but besides other characters, the form of the two
is quite different, and the ramification is much more com-

Fig. 1. Secondary pinna with sori. /. 2. Portion of a

3 r “ Ulti “ ate segment with a sorus, from which
most of the few capsules are removed magnified .

f 'ssT. 2 , t, 24,

Bict del.etlith..

"Pamplmpmg .

TAB. XXY.

Aspidium (Polystichum) Thomson!, Hook.

Caudice brevi crasso obliquo apice squamoso, stiq^itibus basi
insi "niter squamosis 3-4-uncialibus gracilibus stramineis
una cum racbi straminea setoso-paleaceis, fiondibus digi-
talibus ad spithamseam lanceolatis acuminatis subchartaceo-
membranaceis sessilibus pinnatis, pinnis 3-4 lineas longis
sessilibus ovatis profunde pinnatifidis prmcipue ad marginem
superiorem vel bipinnatis, pinnulis ovatis lobisque spinu-
loso-incisis serratisve, venis pinnatis venulis nltimis clavatis,
soris solitariis in singula pinnula seu lobo majusculis dorso
venulte insertis, involucro subovato membranaceo peltato
pedicellate margine siepe eroso.

Hab. Sikkim Himalaya, Hooker , jil. et Thomson • Above
Simla, Col. Bates. Kamaon, elev. 12,000 feet, Strachey
and Winterbottom , n. 9.

This must rank among the smallest of the Polysticlinm-
group of Aspidium, approaching nearest to the smallest speci-
mens of Dr. Wallich’s Aspid. (Polystichum) oxypliyllum. The
involucre, if constant to its form and pedicel, is very re-
markable.

Fig. 1. Fertile pinna, almost again pinnate. /. 2. Portion
with sori. /. 3-4. Involucres: magnified.

{-'ent, 2. T. 25.

TAB. XXVI.

Acrostichusi

(GrMNOPTERIS)

IjINNVEANUM,

Hook.

rnnrlice repente squamoso subtus fibroso, stipitibus sparsis ap-
° vimatis 2-6-uncialibus inferne squamis mgris subulatis
m?ce paleaceis, fron dibus subdimorphis; sterilibus 4-8 uncias
Inn o'is semiunciam latis submembranaceis elongato-lanceo-
in t is subopacis superne ssepe longe acummatis apice radican-
tibus et prollferis margine integemmis, venis .indistmcte
pinnatis venulis primariis transversis secundarnsquc vane
anastomosantibus, areolis majusculis subhexagonis rarissimo
appendiculatis, stipitibus 2-3 uncias longis; fertilibus duplo
ano'ustioribus rigidioribus 4-uncialibus lineari-lanceolatis.

Leptocbilus Linnseanus, Fee, Acrostich. p. 87. tab. 47./. 2.
excluding probably all the synonyms ; certainly all references
to figures.

Dendroglossa Linmeana, Fee , Gen. Fil. p. 81.

TTa t;. Malay Islands, Java, u Zollinger, n. 1441.” Borneo,

Motley, n. 427.

There can, I think, be no doubt of this pretty Fern being
the Leptochilus Linncenus of Fee, 1. c. ; but he quotes Linnaeus’
Acrostichum lanceolatum, Amoen. Acad. 1. p. 268 ; though
it is quite clear that Linnaeus had quite another Fern in
view, since he says of it, in Sp. Plant p. 1523, “ fructificationes
sunt puncta confertissima, versus apicem frondis,” and he refers
to Hort. Malab. 12. t. 27. But Swartz, long ago, showed
that the Linmean plant was the Polypodium acrostichoides of
Forst. Prodr. now generally referred to Niphobolus.

Fee afterwards in his Genera Filicum refers Linnaeus’ Acros-
tichum lanceolatum to Dendroglossa ; while Moore places it
in his Gymnopteris, among the Pleurogrammecn.

Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile frond to show the venation,
(where however, the primary pinnated veins are scarcely suffi-
ciently distinctly represented). /. 2. Portion of a fertile
ioik seen 10m beneath, one side with the capsules removed.
J. o., Lapsule: magnified.

Cent. 2. -t. 2G.

TAB. XXVII.

Asri.ENiUM (Euasplenium) Fadyeni, Hook.

Caudice longe repente paleaceo-squamoso radicante, fibris
longis flexuosis, stipitibus numerosis sparsis gracilibus
2-4 uncias longis inferne squamis ovatis fuscis paleaceis,
frondibus 4-6 uncias longis late ovato-lanceolatis membra-
naceis flaccidis bipinnatis siccitate atro-viridibus pinnis
(16-17) 1-1 \ unciam longis horizontaliter patentibus re-
motiusculis lanceolatis basi pinnatis apicem versus pin-
natifidis, pinnulis 3-5 parvis 2-3 lineas longis petiolulatis
obovato-subrhomboideis obtusis nunc profunde trilobis
lobis obovatis dentatis, venis furcatis, soris paucis ob-
longis parvis, involucris brunneis laxe membranaceis sub-
atbyroideis, rachi gracili subflexuosa.

Asplenium Fadyeni, Ilook. Spec. Fil. 3. p. 193.

Hab. Jamaica, MacFadyen.

Some years ago I had the pleasure to receive this new
h ern from my late friend Dr. MacFadyen, and only upon that
one occasion. It may therefore be considered a rare Asplenium ,

and assuredly a very distinct one, not likely to be confounded
with any other.

leitile plant, nat. size. Ficj. 1 . Superior basal pinna:
magnified, f 2 . Sorus: more magnified.

Tab.XXYll

.

tab. xxviii.

Asplenium (Etjasplenium) elegantulum, Hook.

Candice (state) subrobusto horizontali vel declinato ad apicena
naleaceo squamulis subulatis fuscis, stipitibus aggregate
brevibus 1-2-3-uncialibus rachiquc submarginata viridibus,
frondibus 4-pollicaribus ad spithamseam elongatodanceo-
iatis acuminatis membranaceis flavo-viridibus_ bipinnatis
inferue augustatis cum pinnis nanis flabelli-vel reni-
formibus, reliquis | ad unciam longis. ovatis seu ovato-
lanceolatis subsessifibus iterum pinnatis basin versus prrn-
cipue apice pinnatifidis, pinnulis ovatis subrhomboideis
obovatisve l-li lineam longis acute denticulato-serratis,
venis furcatis subpatentibus in pinnis infimis subflabellatis,
soris copiosis demum confluent-ibus, involucris pallidis ob-
longis laxis subathyroideis.

Asplenium elagantulum, Hook, Sp. Fil. 3.p. 190.

Aspl. lanceolatum ? var. elegans, Hook Florula Irlong-Kong.
in Kew Gard. Miscell. 9./>. 342. Meiten. Asplen. p. 141.

Atbyrium fontanum, Eaton , in Asa Gray’s Hot of Japan ,
vi. N. Ser. of Mem. Acad, of Arts Sc. p. 421 436.

Hab. Island near Cliusan, Alexander ; Port Hamilton, and
Tsus Sima, Strait of Korea, Wilford, n. 753 ; Japan j
Nangasaki, Miss Kelson, Babington ; Hakodadi, Dr. Baines ;
Simoda, C. Wright.

Late events have contributed to the opening up to us of
tlm Botany of N. China and Japan, whose geographical-
position naturally led us to expect European forms of Perns.
Ike present species was at first considered by me to be a
state of Aspl. lanceolatum, while Mr. Eaton looked upon it
as moie 1 elated to Aspl. fontanum . More copious specimens
have satisfied me it is truly distinct from both. The young

pinme ^ S ™ P 7 ^ cl ° Sel ? P innated > with obliquely ovate

Fertile Fronds nat size.
boms : magnified.

Fig. 1. Pinnule, and f 2.

Cjkvt. 2. T. 23.

TaJj.XIVJU

tab. XXIX.

CtlSUlUclS) nunuiuu o . . • 0 • ,• •

l’idibus membranaceis 6-12 uncias longis 3-pmnatis, pinms
pinnulisque petiolatis, pinnis primams 2-3 uncias longis
patentibus lato-lanceolatis acuminatis, pmnulis ultmus
obovato-v-lineari-cuneatis bi-trifidis laciniatisve, segmentis
acutissitnis subspinulosis, frondis pinnai unique upicibus
pinnatifidis segmentis linearibus, venis in segmentis. soli-
tariis longe ante apicem terminantibus, soris solitariis vel
binis in quoque segmento.

Asplenium tenuifolium, Don Prodr. FI Nep. p. 8. Kze. in
Linnosa. 24. p. 265. Metten. Asplen. p. 128. Hook. Sp. Fil.
3. p. 194.

Asplenium concinnum, Wall. Cat. n. 216.

Hab. India, Nepaul, Wallich ; Ncilgherries, Sir F. Adam, Wight ,
n. 104, Gardner , Schmid; Sikkim Himalaya, Hooker. Jil.
and Thomson ; Myrung, and Mishmee, and Kbasya, Grif-
fith ; Ceylon, Gardner , n. 1 07 9, Thwaites (elev. 7 000 feet)
'n. 3628.

An elegant, very compound species, sometimes almost
quadripinnate, allied to the West Indian Aspl. cicutarium , yet
very distinct, especially in the very acute segments of the
pinnules, and in the involucres never opening at or near the
margin.

Fertile Plant: — nat. size. Fig. 1. pinnule.* f. 2. Sorus :
magnified.

\

Pa.Tnplmiinp

Asplenium (Euasplenium) Hallii, Hook.

Candice crassiusculo ascendente, stipitibus cmspitosis ebeneis
nitidis 1-2 uncias longis, froadibus 6-12 uncias longis sub-
membranaceis fusco-viridibus oblongis lanceolatisve basi
attenuatis apice longe acuminatis flagelliformibus suba-
pbyllis radicantibus subbipinnatis seu pinnato-pinnatifidis,
pinnis primariis sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis obtusis J ad
unciam longis horizontalibus subpectinato-pinnatifidis, seg-
mentis linearibus obtusis ad basin superiorem subauriculatis
bifidis vel infeme iterum pinnatis, pinnis infimis frondis
nanis, venis pinnatis solitariis in quoque segmento, soris
parvis oblongis costara versus, involucris membranaceis,
racbi ebenea.

Asplenium Hallii, Hook , Sp. Fil. 3. p. 202.

Asplenium pectinatum, Moore , mst. in Herb. Hook, et in Ind.
Fil. ( name only) not of IVallich , nor of Mettenius.

Hab. Forest of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Col. Hall; Sao Gabriel,
valley of the Amazon, on young trees and shrubs, “ fronds
spreading horizontally,” (no doubt rooting at the extremity),
Spruce , n. 2357.

No other stations than the above have yet been recorded for
this rare species. In the flagelliform and radicant apex it
resembles Aspl. rhizopliyllum, but the pinnm and pinnules
are widely different. It is remarkable for the ebeneous short
stipes and rachis, and the dwarfed lower pinnrn extending
almost to the caudex.

Fertile plant: nat. size. Fig. 1. portion of a bipinnate
form: nat. size.f 2. primary pinna, fertile, and f 3. involucre :
magnified.

Cmi, 2. I. 30.

"Filch. cLel ; e tilth..

tab. XXXI.

ASPLENIUM (EUASPLENIUM) REPENS, Hook.

Parvum, caudice longe filiformi ramoso hirsuto-tomentoso,
'stipitibns sparsis remotis vix 2 lineas longis, frondibus sub-
biuncialibus ovato-lanceolatis bi-rarius tiipinnatis, pinnis
2 lineas longis petiolatis, pinnubs divaricato-patentibus vix
lineam longis cuneato-palmatis in. petiolulum attenuatis
apice irregulariter subdigitato-laciniatis, venis crassiusculis
immersis simplicibus vel furcatis longe ante apicem termi-
nantibus clavatis 3 soris semiovatis solitariis, inv olucris nicm-
branaceis fuscis, racbi stipiteque herbaceis.

Asplenium repens, Hook. Sp. Fil. 3. p. 194.

Hab. Ecuador, growing on trees and shrubs in the forests
of Archedona, Quitinian Andes, Jameson , n. 786.

One of the most distinct of all Asplenia. The filiform
caudices are a foot and more long ; yet the fronds are among
the smallest of the Genus, and the pinnules of the fronds are
in shape more like some Plagiochilus among Jungermannia
than any E ern I know. The veins terminate . far below
the apex of the segment, and the involucres are all remote
from the margin.

Portion of a fertile plant : nat. size. Fig. 1 §• 2. Finnic,
with and without sori. f. 3. sorus: magnified.

Cbm. 2. t. 31,

TAB. XXXII.

Onychium strictum, Kze.

Caudice subfusiformi tuberculato obliquo apice radicoso, sti-
pitibus casspitosis spithamasis ad pedalem rachibusque stra-
mineis inferne parce paleaceis, frondibus subspithamaeis fere
membranaceis viridibus glabris opacis subdeltoideo-ovatis
8-4-pinnatis seu pinnatisectis, segmentis lineari-subcuneatis
acutis ssepe oppositis integris v. bitrifidis, racbibus anguste
alatis, fertilibuspaulo latioribus, soris brevibus sub-oblongis
obtusis curvatis ante apicem sitis rarius solitariis.

Onychium strictum, Kunze, in Sclik. Fil. Suppl. 2. p. 1] ;
(no figure). Rook. Sp. Fil. 2. p. 123.

Hab. St. Jago de Cuba, on Mount Leban, Linden, n. 1870,
C. Wright, n. if 858.

With the exception of the present species, and Onychium
angustifolium Kze. (our Pellcea decomposita, v. 2. p. 171) all
the true Onychia are natives of the Old World. Here how-
ever it may be observed that the sori are less decidedly in
exactly opposite pairs than is consistent with the character
of the Genus. It borders too closely on Cheilanthes, as that
does again on Adiantum.

Fertile plant : nat. size. Fig. 1. Portion of a pinna with
sori : magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 33.

TnJ) XXJTJ

Btd del etlith

tab. XXXIII.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) Wardii, Hook.

Caudice subhorizontali orassiusculo superne squamis longis
subulatis dense vestito, stipitibus casspltosis spithammis
stramineis inferne parce subulato-squamosis, frondibus 12-
14 uncias longis basi 10 uncias latis membranaceis deltoideo-
acuminatis olivaceo-fuscis opacis bipmnatis apice pinnati-
fidis, pinnis horizontalibus petiolatis lanceolatis acuminatis,
pinnulis approximate 6-8 lineas longis horizontalibus ses-
silibus subdimidiato-ovatis obtusis integerrimis v. lmviter
sinuatis serratisve, pinnarum inferiorum pinnulis subpinna-
tifidis auriculatisque superiorum subintegris decurrentibus,
venis pinnatis oblique patentibus simplicibus furcatisve,
soris biserialibus costam versus, involucris (junioribus)
tenui-membranaceis pallidis .

Asplenium Wardii, Hook. Sp. Fil. 3. p. 189.

Hab. Tsus Sima, Strait of Korea, Wilford, n. 717.

A very distinct Asplenium from any known to me, with
more the habit of some Lastrea than is usually seen in this
Genus. I name it in compliment to John Ward, Esq. Com-
mander of II. M. S. “Actmon,” in acknowledgement of his
services rendered to Mr. Wilford, Botanical Collector for the
Royal Gardens of Kew, during an interesting cruise in the
North Chinese Seas, and as far as Manchuria.

Fei tile plant : not. size. Fig. 1. Pinnule with sori: mag-
nified..

CliJil. 2. 1. 33.

Tab.XXXlll.

TAB. XXXIV.

Asplenium (Euasplenicjm) rutaceum, Mm.

Caudice obliquo radicante, stipitibus cmspitosis brevissimis
semiunoiam adduas unciaslongis castaneis, frondibus 10-12
uncias longis membranaceis atro-viridibus lato-lanceolatis
basi sensim attenuatis apice in caudam longam filiformem
ad extremitatem radicantem extensis bi-tripinnatis, pinnis
primariis horizontalibus unciam sesquiunciam longis numer-
osis approximatis (infimis nanis) e basi latiuscula oblongis
obtusis, secundariis 2 lineas longis omnibus petiolatis pm-
natis, pinnulis 2-3 obovato-spathulatis subacutis integris
v. bilobis, pinnulis infimis magis compositis summis integris
vel bilobis minimis remotis, venis in quoque lobo indivisis
longe infra apicem terminantibus apice clavatis, soris brevi-
bus ovalibus in disco sitis, involucris membranaceis pallidis.

Asplenium rutaceum, Metten. Asplcn. p. 129. t. 5. f. 32. 33.
Moore. Ind. Fil. p. 162. Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 203. Aspidium,
Willd. Sp. FI. 5. p. 266. Athyrium, Pr. — Loncliitis in
auriculas subrotundas divisa. Plum. Fil. p. 44. t. 57.

Hab. St. Domingo, Plumier ; Columbia, Tovar, Moritz , n.
402; New Grenada, Ocaiia, Schlim n. 624; and Sierra
Nevada, elev. 6000 feet ; Venezuela, Fendler, n. 123; on
trunks of trees, forests of Archedona, Andes of Quito,
Jameson, n. 788.

An elegant species, lately well described by Mettenius,
previously very incorrectly understood, and chiefly in conse-
quence oi Plunder's rather exaggerated figure above quoted,
from which Willdenow’s character appears to have been
drawn up : and hence too he was led into the error of
believing it to be an Aspidium .

Fertile plant; nat. size. Figs. 1 §■ 2. Pinnules with sori ;
magnified .

C’B-VT. 2. T. 31.

Tai.XXYlV

Pamplmmp

tab. XXXV.

Scolopendrium (Camptosorus) SlBIRICUM, Ilook.

Cauclice paryo adscendente radiculoso, stipitibus cmspitosis
oracilibus 2-4-uncias longis, frondibus membranaceis, sterili-
bus brevibus oblongo-ovatis acuminatis, fertilibus 5-6
uncialibus lanceolatis longissime caudatim attenuatis apice
radicantibus, yenis prope costam anastomosantibus reliquis
liberis apicibus clavatis, soris geminatis non raro sparsis
solitariis.

Scolopendrium (Camptosorus) sibiricum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 3.
ined.

Camptosorus Sibiricus “ Ruprecht in Beitr. 2, Pflanzenk. d.
Russ. R. III. p. 45.” Ledeb. FI. Ross. 4. p. 523.

IIab. Siberia, River Angara, Steller ; Kamtschatka, Georgi,
Island of Tsus Sima, Strait of Korea, Wilford, n. 190.

Linnseus gives “Siberia” as a locality for the N. American
Asplenium (Camptosorus) rhiaophyllu.m. The Siberian plant is
however since acknowledged to be a new species, distinguished
by the entire absence of lobes or auricles at the base of the
frond, which are so characteristic of the United States. But
even in Siberia the present species appears to be of very rare
occurrence,, insomuch that the late learned author of the
Ilora Rossica (Ledebour) was obliged to declare “species
mihi ignota.” Only two stations for it have been yet re-
corded in all the Russian dominions; and now that it has
been detected in the island of Tsus Sima, off the coast of
Korea, the discoverer there accompanies his specimen by the
remark “ the only specimen found and that is the one here
represented.

Camptosorus and Antigramme only differ from Scolopen-
pendrium by the partial anastomosing of the veins ; in the
former next the costa ; in the latter next the margin. To me
it seems most natural to unite both with Scolopendrium.

show e in t l le th nd bar t'- U fr ° n i S - ^ 1 • Portion of a sterI1 e frond,
°°’ ” d/ - 2 - poriion ° f » “

Cent, 2. t. 36

Ktck iiL etlitk.

Parapha, imp .

TabJCXXV

I

tab. xxxyi.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) dimorphum, Kze.

Caudice (“repente crasso ”) stipitibus 6-12uncias longi Sj
frondis amplis 2-pedabbus et ultra chartaceo-membranaceis
deltoideo-ovatis bi-tripinnatis, pinnis ovato-lanceolatis
petiolatis acuminatis biformibus in eadem fronde v. i n
frondibus diversis, inferioribus plerumque sterilibus sim-
pliciter pinnatis, pinnubs rhombeo-ovatis basi inequaliter
cnneatis margine serratis saepe lobatis vel basin versus
iterum. pinnatis, venis pinnatis dichotomis ; pinnis fertilibus
plerumque terminalibus bipinnatis vel potius bipinnati-
fidis, laciniis linearibus angustis obtusis, venis costiformibus,
soris plerumque sobtariis dareiformibus ramis geminatis
diplazioideis.

Asplenium dimorphum, Kze, in Linncea , 23. p. 233. Metten.
Asplen. p. 108. (excl. syn. A. Novas Caledonia;, Hook.)
Hook. Sp. Fil. 3. p. 213. Aspl diversifolium. A Cunn. in
Endl. FI. Norf. p. 10. (not of Flume.)

Hab. Norfolk Island, and no where else as far as yet known.

One of the most distinct of asplenioid Ferns, and among
the most limited in respect of country, for it appears to be
confined to Norfolk Island.

iig. 1. Portion of a frond, with sterile and fertile pinnae;
nat. size. f. 2. Sterile pinnule, f. 3. Fertile pinnule with
sori : magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 36.

TaJb.XXXn.

Pamplm/imp

Fitch, del etlith

TAB. XXXVII.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) scaneens, J. Sm.

Caudice crassitie penn® corvinae longe repente flexuoso ra-
moso parce radicante apicibus paleaceis, stipitibus sparsis
remotis brevissimis, frondibus 1-2-pedalibus et ultra late
ovato-lanceolatis basin versus attenuatis subcoriaceo-mem-
branaceis olivaceo-viridibus 3-4-pinnatis, pinnis primariis
borizontalibus 3-4-uncias longis lato-lanceolatis sessilibus
numerosis subdistantibus, inferioribus nanis magis remotis,
pinnis secundariis unciam longis, pinnulis ultimis seu la-
ciniis 4-5-lineas longis anguste linearibus infimis superior-
ibus furcatis vel trifidis reliquis integris acutis, fertilibus
paululum latioribus, venis costreformibus, soris mai’ginalibus
oblongis, involucris firmis submembranaceis pallide fuscis ;
racbibus primariis teretibus, partialibus compressis sub-
alatis.

Asplenium scandens, J. Sm. in Hook. Jonrn. of Hot. 3. p.
408. (name only). Metten. Asplen. p. 108. Hook. Sp. Fil.
3 .p. 216.

Hab. Philippine Islands, Leyte, Cuming, n. 297 ; New
Guinea, Hinds.

A rare and well-marked species, remarkable for it's long-
creeping, or perhaps, scandent caudex.

Fig. 1. Caudex and small frond, f. 2. Portion of a larger
and fertile frond ; nat. size. f. 3. Sorus: magnified.

Cbkt. 2, i, 3i

Tick M.etitk.

Pamjlm.ixoj-

TAB. XXXVITI.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) FERULACEUM, Moure.

Caudice ? stipite 14 uncias longo robusto pallide fusco hinc
sulcato, fronde sesquipedali supradecoinposita (4-5-pinnata)
kete viridi membranacea deltoideo-ovata acuminata, pinnis
primariis numerosis subdistantibus inferioribus 6-8 uncias
longis petiolatis late ovatis acuminatis, secundariis 3 uncias
longis, ultimis brevibus lineam longis lineari-subspathulatis
mono-rarius disoris, venis costaeformibus, soris parvis dare-
oideis, involucris viridescentibus submembranaceis, rachibus
primariis secundariisque teretibus stramineis nitidis ultimis
augustissimis compressis glabris.

Asplenium ferulaceum, Hook Sp Fil. 3. p. 216. Moore. Mss.
in Herb. Nostr. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 130. (name only, no
character or description.)

Hab. New Grenada, Hartweg. n. 1519. Quito, Jameson, in
Herb. Nostr.

A vei 7 distinct and elegant, and hitherto undescribed
species, of the Darea- group, remarkable for the very com-
pound, or rather decompound, finely cut pinnae, and the

terete primary and secondary rachises, which are stramineous
and glossy.

Fig. 1. Stipes and base of a lower primary pinna, f. 2. A

peiioi primal y pinna ; nat. size. f. 3. Pinnule with sori :
magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 38.

Tab.. X. XXVI 77

fitch, del etlitk

Pamplin-.inip

TAB. XXXIX.

AsPLENIUM (EuASPLENIUM) DICHOTOMUM, Hook

Parvum, caudice erecto subnullo radicante paleaceo, stipitibus
ctespitosis subundam longis gracilibus compressis pallide
viridibus setaceo-paleaceis, frondibus 3-4-uncialibus ob-
longis acutis membranaceis viridibus subtripinnatis, pinnis
primariiS' H undarn longis subdimidiato-ovatis subap-
proximatis petiolatis dichotome divisis, pinnulis brevibus
augustis linearibus bis-terve dichotomis, segmentis fertili-
bus paulo latioribus, venis solitariis costiformibus, soris
magnis lineari-oblongis marginalibus dareoideis, rachibus
omnibus compresso-alatis.

Asplenium dicbotomum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 2>. p. 210

**•> L ° b »“ k *«*• clev.
5,000 feet, north-east side of Borneo, Thos. Lolb.

Tins would be a true Darea (or Ceratopteris,) in the view

wkh T- T 0 tan ‘ St ,V V '‘ 0a<,0pt ‘ h “ blrt 1 know none

extremX dll” ^ conroun<W - I* « a small an<l

ing rS“'“ te 81, “' e3 ’ 11,6 hei » h ‘ «ooeJ-

Fertile plant; nat . size.
Single sorus : magnified.

Fid- E Pinna with sori. /. 2.

Cent. 2. t. 30.

XaJbXXXIZ.

Etch. <3 el, et Jitk.

Pam'plm.rap.

TAR. XL.

Asplenium (Euasplenitjm) davallioides, Hook,

Caudice parvo suberecto supra squamoso, stipitibus cmspitosis
3-4 uncias longis compressis deciduo squamosis, frondibus
3-6-uncias longis subcoriaceis ovatis acuminatis 3-sub-
quadripinnatis (junioribus primariis pinnis lobato-pinna-
tifidis), pinnis primariis 2-3 uncias longis petiolatis, secun-
dariis petiolatis |-| unciam longis late ovatis, pinnulis
ultiinis parvis oblongis acutis simplicibus vel bifidis, seg-
mentis omnibus patenti-recurris acutis, venis costiformibus,
soris oblongis sxepissime marginalibus longitudine fere
segmentorum, involucris membranaceis firmis, rachibus
alato-compressis .

Asplenium davallioides, Hook. Florul. Hong-Hong. in Hew
Gard. Misc. 9. p. 343. Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 212.

Hab. Nangasaki, Japan, Babington, n. 101; Looclioo Islands,
C. Wright; Tsus Sima, Strait of Korea, Wilford, n. 791.

A species which cannot easily be mistaken for any other
of the group to which it belongs, if the short and singularly
divergent or patenti-recurved ultimate segments be con-
sidered, with the sori, though short in themselves, nearly as
long as the ultimate segments, and giving the appearance of
a dareoid species of Davallia.

Fertile plant; not. size. Fig. 1 . Pinnule with sori. f. 2.
3. Back and front view of a sorus; magnified, f. 4. Young-
frond ; nat. size.

Ce.ni. 2. x. 4o.

TAB. XLI.

Asplesium (Euasplenium) Monteverdense, Hook.

Caudice parvo fibroso-radicante, stipitibus caespitosis 1-2
uncias longis lurido-castaneis, frondibus 4-6 uncias longis
lato-lanceolatis acuminatis inferne attenuatis membranaceis
pallide viridibus demum subcoriaceis atro-viridibus tripin-
natis, pinnis omnibus subpetiolatis, primariis paten tibus 1- 1 } 2
unciam longis oblongo-ovatis obtusis, secundariis lato-cu-
neatis (infimis brevibus pauci-pinnatis) plerisque bi-trifidis
segmentis brevibus aeutis modice subincurvis, venis costae-
formibus apice clavatis, soris in lobos solitariis vix dareoideis,
involucris parvis lineari-oblongis flavo-virescentibus valde
membranaceis, rachibus viridibus compressis marginatis.

Asplenium Monteverden^e, Hook. Sp. Fil. vol. 3. p. 195.

(X , llvy'VMj (j lfe£ >

IIab. Under overhanging rocks near Mount Verde, on the
eastern side of Cuba, C. Wight, n. 1029.

Of this species the affinity is perhaps with Aspl, varians,
Hook. & Grev., but the very short stipites, the fronds attenu-
ated at the base, the different form of the pinnae and their
more distinct petioles will readily distinguish it; or, more
nearly, with some of the many forms of Aspl. cicutarium. In
the old state of fructification the plant might be taken for a

Gymnogramme, for the copious capsules soon cover and conceal
the involucres.

Fertile fronds ; not. size. Fig. 1. Pinnule with sori. /. 3.
Single sorus : magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 41.

3,el etltEh..

TAB. XLII.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) prolongatum, Hook.

Candice parvo ascendente radicante vix squamoso, stipitibus
ciespitosis 2-4 uncias longis stramineis subcompressis, froncl-
ibus 4-5-uncialibus ad pedalem coriaceis seu subchartaceia
oblongis vel lineari-oblongis srepe falcatis bi-subtripinnatis
rachi apice prolongata caudiformi nuda radicante 1-2 uncias
longa, pinnis primariis 1-1J uncias longis horizontaliter
patentibus siepe approximatis semiovatis obtusis petiolatis
seraipinnatis (seu pinnuKs bine longioribus numerosioribus)
pinnulis 3-4 lineas longis plerisque simplicibus integris raro
furcatis ad basin superiorem bi-tripartitis, venis costiformi-
bus, soris oblongis submarginalibus, involucris firmis meni-
branaceis colore frondis.

Asplenium prolongatum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 3. p. 209.

Hab. On Trees, East Indies, Mishmee, Griffith , Simons, n.
235 ; Kbasya, Hook. Fil. et Thomson ; Bhotan, Booth ;
Ceylon, Mrs. Genl. Walker, Gardner, n. 1348 ; Tsus Sima,
Strait of Korea, Wilford.

A very elegant and well marked species, retaining its
characteristic distinctions in all the specimens from the seve-
ral localities above mentioned. Nearly every one exhibits
the remarkable prolongation of the rachis, rooting at the
apex and often very proliferous there. Of the primary pin-
na; the longest and most numerous pinnules are always on
the upper half.

Fertile plant; not. size. Fig. 1 . Pinna, f. 2. Sorus :
magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 42.

TaJb.XLIL

-fi-tch. cLel etlitL.

Pamplm.xmp

TAB. XLIII.

Asplenium (Athyeium) medium, Carm.

Caudice “6-7 uncias longo,” stipitibus 5-6 unciam longis
stramineis basin versus incrassatis paleis longissimis angus-
tissimis ferrugineis flexuosis obsitis, frondibus spithammis
rigide subcoriaceis deltoideis acutis bipinnatis, pinnis siepe
oppositis horizontalibus approximatis sessilibus 3 uncias
longis ovato-lanceolatis, pinnulis J-f unciam longis lato-
lanceolatis sessilibus pinnatifidis acutis vix auriculatis seg-
mentis ovato-oblongis serratis, venis pinnatis dichotomis,
soris copiosis, involucris membranaceis reniformibus sinua-
tis margine erosis, rachi universali crinita. *

Asplenium medium, Hook. Sp. Fil. 3. p. 228.

Aspidium medium, Carm. in. Linn. Trans. 12. p. 311.

Aspidium intermedium, Carm. Mss. in Herb. Hook. Athy-
rium, Moore. Inil. Fil. p. 96.

Hab. Tristan d’Acunha, on the Table-land ; Dr. Carmichael,
in Herb, nostr.

A very distinct species, peculiar, as far as yet known to
the island just mentioned. Its discoverer has noted, “ stem
(caudex) about 6 inches high, crowned with a circle of fronds
from 9 to 12 inches high.”

Fertile plant ; nat. size. Fig. 1 . Pinnule with sori . f. 2.

Single sorus. f, 3. Setiform scale from the stipes : mag-
nified.

Cunt. 2. i, 13.

TaJbJCLUl.

TAB. XLIV.

Asplenium (Athyrium) Nigritianum, Hook.

Tota planta siccitate nigra, caudice brevi robusto erecto
squamis copiosis atro-ferrugineis subulatis paleaceo, stipiti-
bus Cffispitosis robustis spithammis rachique dense fusco-
villosis, frondibus 1-4 pedem longis rigide coriaceis ob-
lono-o-lanceolatis acuminatis basi attenuatis bi-tripinnatis,
pinnis iniimis remotis, reliquis magis approximatis hori-
zontalibus 2\ vix 3 uncias longis lanceolatis acuminatis,
pinnulis 2-3-lineas longis omnibus petiolulatis oblique
rliomboideis obscure et obtuse auriculatis seu insequaliter
bilobis serratis, pinnulis infimis ternatis seu subpinnatis
rachin imbricantibus, venis obscuris subflabellatim dicbo-
tomis, soris 1-5 in singula pinnula parvis lato-oblongis, in-
volucris convexis integerrimis fere nigris.

Asplenium Kigritianum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 3 . p. 223.

Hab. Prince’s Island, Fernando Po, Barter in Baikie's 2nd
Niger Exped. n. 1898.

A distinct and very peculiar Asplenium , wbicb bas no near
relationship to any species known to me ; remarkable for its
firm, rigid texture, very stout stipes and main rachis, shaggy
with woolly, hair-like scales, and for the very black colour of
the whole plant when dry. I place it with some hesitation
among Athyria, on account of a certain peculiarity of habit,
and of the convex involucres, which however are very firm
and coriaceous, and nearly of the same colour as the (dried)
frond.

Portion of the base and apex of a fertile plant ; nat. size.
Fig. 1. Inferior pinnule from a sterile pinna, f. 2. Fertile
pinna with sori : magnified.

(Jest. 2. i. -Fi.

TAP. XLV.

Asplenium (Eudiplazium) Thwaitesii, A. Braun.

Caudice longo repente atro radicante, stipitibus sparsis 4
uncias ad spithamaeam longis rachique pilis crispatis squam-
isque lanceolatis membranaceis vestitis,frondibus spithammis
ad pedalem ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis membranaceis
pinnatis apice pinnatifidis, pinnis 1^-3 uncias longis ap-
proximatis sessilibus horizontalibus obtusis rectis profunde
fere ad rachin pinnatifidis, lobis brevi-oblongis obtusis
apice dentatis, venis pinnatis simplicibus v. furcatis, soris
singulo lobo in seriebus duabus parvis lineari-oblongis, in-
volucris pallide fuscis membranaceis convexis suberosis
nunc diplazioideis, costis et venis supra subglanduloso-
sparseque pilosis.

Asplenium Thwaitesii, A. Braun , Incl. Hort. Berol. 1857
Metten. Asplen. p. 183. I look. Sp. Fil. 3. p. 250.

Hab. Ceylon, Gardner , n. 1343, Thwaites.

A remarkable and well defined species in its long, creeping,
subterranean, blackened caudex, and the densely tomentose
and peleaceous stipites and main rachises.

bertile frond; nut. size. Fig. 1. 2. 3. Portions of pinna)
with sori : magnified.

Cent. 2. t. -45.

TuAXLV.

fitcli, lei , etlth

Paattplm.imp

TAB. XL VI.

Asplenium (Eudiplazium) VESTITUM, Hook.

Caudice ? stipitibus robustis paleaceis squamosis, squamis in-
fimis maximis ovatis acuminatis atro-fuscis nitidis denticu-
latis, frondibus amplis subraembranaceis fusco-viridibus
sesquipedalibus ovato-lanceolatis pinnato-pinnatifidis apice
pinnatifidis, v. bi-tripedalibus latissime ovatis bipinnatis,
pinnis omnibus patentissimis oblongis petiolatis, primariis
distantibus semi-pedalibus ad spithamaeam acutis apice
pinnatifidis, pinnulis elliptico-oblongis 2 uncias longis fere
unciam latis sa;pe obtusissimis basi truncatis lobato-pinna-
tifidis superioribus subintegris serratisque, lobis obtusis vcl
subangulatis, venis pinnato-fasciculatis, soris linearibus
copiosis infimis prsecipue diplazioideis, rachibus villoso-
squamulosis.

Asplenium vestitum. Hook. Sp. Fil. 3. p. 203.

Diplazium vestitum. Pr. Epimel. Bot. p. 87.

D. extensum. J. Sm. in Hook. Bot. Journ. 3. p. 407, in part,
(name only.)

Hab. Isle of Samar, Phillippiues, Cuming, n. 336.

Our younger specimens, as they appear to be (yet bearing-
copious sori), are simply pinnated, the larger and older ones
bipinnate, with large very distant primary pinnai.

Fig. 1 . Stipes, f. 2. Portion of a fertile frond; nat. size,
f. 3. Portion of a fertile pinna, with sori. f. 4. Scale from
the base of the stipes : magnified.

Cent. 2. i. -if,.

Tab.X LVh

(UL,et]ith

TAB. XL VII.

Davallia (Saccoloma?) Denhami, Hook.

Caudice repente subulato-paleaceo, stipitibus subsparsis 3-6
uncias longis castanels nitidis, frondibus 6-8 uncias longis
subchartaceis ovatis acuminatis bipinnatis, pinnis petiolatis
2-3 uncias longis lanceolatis acuminatis remotis, pinnulis
semiunciam ad unciam longis lineari-lanceolatis obtusis
pinnatifidis basi sessilibus subdecurrentibus, laciniis brevis-
simis 1-bideutatis monosoris, involucro pyriformi parte
superiore libera rotundata.

Hab. Nay it i Levu, Feejee Islands, Milne , in Voy. of Capt.
Benliam , n. 1 16.

A very pretty new Davallia , which, like the following one
(D. rhomboidea, Tab. xlviii), I find difficult to refer
satisfactorily to its group in the genus ; so much do those
groups gradually pass, by almost insensible characters, into
others.

Fertile plant ; nat. size. Fig. 1. Small pinnule with sori.
f. 2. Sorus. f 3. Sorus with the anterior portion of the
involucre removed : magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 47.

ftct 3el,etm

Pampim,:aap

TAB. XLVIII.

DAVALLIA (CuNEAT.®) RHOMBOIDEA, Hook, (not Wall.)

Caudice gracili elongato repente atro nitidissimo fragili, sti-
pitibus sparsis 3-4 uncias longis stramineis nitidis basi ebe-
neis, frondibus 6-8 uncias longis oblongo-lanceolatis acu-
minatis tenui-membranaceis pallide viridibus pinnatis, pin-
nis patentibus inferioribus remotis subunciam lono-is rhom-
beo-subtriangularibus longe petiolatis profunde pinnatifidis
subpinnatisque lobis pinnulisve oblique obovatis inequaliter
lobatis, sterilibus serrulatis, yenis subflabellatim dichotomis
apice soriferis, involucris orbiculari-cuneatis membranaceis
apice erosa solummodo libera lobulis frondium marginis
conformibus, rachibus gracilibus subflexuosis, pinnis su-
premis sublanceolatis.

Hab. Hakodadi, Japan, Wilford, v. 1037.

A very elegant and peculiar species of Davallia, which I
am disposed to refer to the section Cuneatce ; it is quite dif-
ferent from any described one, and only known to us through
our collector, Mr. Wilford.

Fertile plant ; nat. size. Fig. 1. Portion of a pinna with
son ’ ma gnified, f. 2. Sori more magnified, one representing
the involucre removed : more magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 48.

Bt6h_a^ etldi.

FamrliiiJuip

TAB. XLIX.

Polypodium (Pheoopteris) decursivo-pinnatum,
Van Hall.

Candice subrepente stipitibusque semipedalibus stramineis
squamis subulatis ciliatis ferrugineis paleaceis, frondibus
villosnlis pedalibus et ultra lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis
inferne augustatis pinnatis apice pinnatifidis, pinnis hori-
zontaliter patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis pinnatifidis, in-
fimis brevibus liberis, reliquis lobo intermedio semicirculari
coadunatis, venis pinnatis apice clavatis supra medium so-
riferis, soris perpaucis solitariis parvis pilis fasciculatis cap-
sulis duplo longioribus (vix basi in membranam seu involu-
crum unitis) intermixes, rachibus stramineis nitidis patenti-
ferrugineo-villosis.

Polypodium decursivo-pinnatum, “ Van Hall in N. Verhandl.
t. 1. Klass. v. d. Neederl. Instil, t. 5.”

Pbegopteris decursivo-pinnata, Fee gen. p. 242. t. 20. A. 1.
(fragments only.)

Aspidium decursivo-pinnatum, Kze. Bot. Zeit. 6. 555. Metten.
Aspid. p. 75.

Lastrea decurrens, J. Sm. Bot. Mag. v. 72. Comp. p. 33.

Hab. Japan, Goring ; Port Cbusan, Korea, Wilford, n. 920.

A very elegant and very distinct species allied to the Euro-
pean Polypodium Phegopteris, Linn, and to the Pol. hexagonop-
terum , Sw. but very different in form and in the presence
of the copious, spreading, ferrugineous, subulate scales which
clothe the stipites and rachis. Kunze and others consider
that the hairs of the sori arise from an almost obsolete invo-
lucre, and hence they refer the plant to Aspidiacece.

Tab. XLIX. Fertile plaDt ; not. size. Fig. 1. Portion of a
fertile pinna, f. 2. Sorus. f. 3. Scale from the base of the
stipes : magnified.

Cbnt. 2. t. 49.

Frtcli . del etiitli.

Tajnplm-. imp

TAB. L.

Adiantum monochbamys, Eaton.

Caudice horizontal! fusco-tomentoso, stipitibus spithamans
rachibusque flexuosis castaneis nitidis, frondibus ovatis
acuminatis chartaceis pallide viridibus tripinnatis, pinnulis
omnibus sublonge petiolulatis obcordato-cuneatis apice
crenato-serratis in sinu profundo monosoris, venis flabella-
tis dichotome divisis, involucro suborbiculari coriaceo atro-
fllSCO.

Adiantum monochlamys, Eaton, in Proceedings of Am. Acad.
Arts §• Sc. for 1809. p. 110.

Hab. Hill-sides, near Simoda, Japan, C '• Wright; Tsus Sima,
Strait of Korea, Wilford, n. 837.

A very elegant and unquestionably a very distinct species
of Adiantum, well named monochlamys by its first describer.
Among my specimens there is no instance of more than one
sorus on each pinnule, and that arises from a deep sinus at the
almost truncated apex.

Tab. L. Fertile plant; nat. size. Fig ■ 1. Back view of a
fertile pinnule, f. 2 Front view showing the sorus : magnified .

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TAB. LI.

ASPLENIUM (§ AtflSOGONIUM) TERNATUM, Liebm.

Fronde coriacea glabra ternata 5-10-poll, longa, 2J-3J pol p
lata, stipite 2-7-pollicari, pinna media lateralibus longi ore
3-5 poll, longa 1-1 J poll, lata elliptica utrinque attenuata
apice longe acuminata petiolata, petiolo 4-6 poll, longo,
margine imprimis apicem versus remote et grosse dentato ;
pinnis lateralibus oppositis inequalibus, 1-4 poll, longis
1-1J poll, latis falcato-ellipticis brevipetiolatis acuminatis
grosse dentatis ; pagina anteriori obscure viridi posteriori
glauco-viridi ; costa media antice canaliculata, postice con-
vexa, venis utrinque prominulis nigris pluries furcatis bic
illic in areolam ellipticam anastomosantibus ; soris 3-4
lineas longis simpllcibus vel diplazioideis, indusiis integris
membranaceis fuscis, stipite antice et lateribus sulcato,
postice convexo. — Rhizoma subterraneum obliquum breve
pennam anserinam crassum radiculis simplicibus validis et

intricatis et fragmentis stipitum emortuorum tectum.

Liebm.

Asplenium, (§ Anisogonium) ternatum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 3. p.
265. Diplazium ternatum, Liebm. Fil. Mex. p. 100. Metten.
Aspl. p. 162.

Hab. Mexico, Distr. of Oajaca elev. 4-5000 feet, Liebmann.

My specimens of this plant, from the author, will be better
understood by the accompanying figures taken from them
than by words. The species has the characters in part of
Asplenium, of Diplazium, and Anisogonium ; and to those who
maintain those genera respectively, it would be difficult to
say to which of the three it has the strongest claim.

Tab. LI. Plants; nat. size. Fig. 1. Portion of a pinna
showing the venation and sori magnified. f. 2. Portion of

a sorus more highly magnified.

Cum. 2. t. 51.

Tab, Li

TAB. LII.

NOTHOCHLiENA FERKTJGINEA, Hook.

Caudice repente longe fibroso bulbillis ovatis squamosis demum
ffondiferis onasto, stipitibus aggregates 2-4 pollicaribus ri-
o-idis tomentosis demum nudis aterrimis, frondibus 6-8-10-
pollicari bus erectis coriaceis firmis lanceolatis pinnatis, pinni 8
horizon talibus sessilibus subsemiunciam longis obtusis pi n _
natifidis, supra villosis subtus densissime ferrugineo-v. albo-
pannosis, laciniis utrinque 6-8 breviusculis ovato-oblongis
uniformibus, marginibus magis minusve revolutis subinvolu-
criformibus, soris aterrimis.

Clieilantbes ferruginea, Willd.Herb. Kaulf. En. p. 209. Met-
ten. Chil. p. 23.

Nothoeldcena rufa, Pr. Bel. Hank. 1. p. 19. Lielm. Fil. Mex.

p. 62 .

Nothochlsena tomentosa, Desv. Journ, Bot. 3. p. 92.

NotbochlasDa trichomanoides, Mart, et Gal. Fil. Mex. p. 45,
(not Br .)

Hab. Peru (Vahl, Herb, and Poeppig ); Columbia (Moritz);
Guatemala, and Mexico are given as localities for this
Fern ; and in the latter country it appears to be a frequent
inhabitant of the mountains, at elevations varying from 3 to
5000 feet. Jamaica, St. Andrew’s Parish, near Shalloten-
burgh Great House, elev. 3-4000, on rocks and shingly
soil^fully exposed, Mr. Nathaniel Wilson. If Willdenow’s
Acrostichum Bonariense be the same plant, as implied by
Mettenius’ synonyms, it is a native of Buenos- Ayres ; but
this requires further confirmation. May not that be the
Nothoeldcena hypoleuca ? a nearly allied species, known to
be a native of Chili.

This is a very elegant Fern, and now for the first time
found in the West Indies by Mr. Wilson, the indefatigable
superintendent of the Botanic Garden in Jamaica. Generically
this borders very closely upon Cheilanthes, and has nearly as
good a claim to rank with the one Genus as with the other.

Tab. LII. Fig. 1. Plant of the ferruginous state of
Nothoeldcena ferruginea : f. 2. The white state ; natural size,
f. 3. Segment with sori, magnified ; f. 4. Portion of a fertile
segment, more highly magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 62.

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TAB. LIII.

Davallia (Eudavallia) Moorei, Hook

Candice repente ferrugtaeo-toment«o^uamu oso , erijutibu.
spa, 'sis firmis ftauosis semipedalibus ad pedalem baa, sc,ua-
mulosis, frondibus coriaceis subdeltoideo-acummate spa™,
3-4-pinnatis, pinnis primariis ovato-lanceolahs valde acrnm-
n atis pinnatiidis ultimis lanceolate dentato-pinnatiddis
dentlbu, soriferis, Boris intramarginalibus cupal, form, bus.

HiB. Canalla, New Caledonia, Mr. Charles Moore, n. 5.

Ibis specie, of Davallia, belongiog to tbe group or sect, on
Euiavla, possesses no eery strikingly marked characters,
and yet cannot be referred to any known species. It comes
too from a count, y in the Austraban S. Pac.hc Ocean,
which would doubtless yield a good harvest of new Feins,
could it be fully investigated by tbe Botanist.

Tab. LIII. Plant of Davallia Moorei ; natural size. Fig. 1.
Ultimate pinna, fertile. /. 2. Single sorus ■, -magnified.

Cent. 2. x. 53.

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TAB. LIV.

Davallia ( § Dareoide.®) FCENICULACEA, Hook.

Frondibus sesquipedalibus (et ultra?) subcoriaceo-berbaceis
latd ovatis acuminatis 4-pinnatis, divisionibus prlmariis cir-
cumscriptione ovato-lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis 6-8 polli-
caribus, secundariis tertiariisquelanceolatis segmentis angus-
tissime linearibus ultimis vix lineam longis subclavatis, soria
copiosis, involucris solitariis suburceolatis ad marginem
interioreru infra apicern oblique sitis.

Hab. NavitiLevu of the Fiji Islands, in woods on mountains,
Milne , in the Voy. of the Herald, under Capt. Denham, B .N.

The most finely and deeply cut of all the genus Davallia.
The resemblance to fennel leaves is indeed weakened by the
very copious sori, which are situated on the interior margin
of most of the ultimate segments, and so prominent, and so
oblique in direction, that a fertile segment not inaptly
resembles a tobacco-pipe, with a crest or wing on one side.
A very obscure costa passes through all the segments ; indeed
the ramification is of that character that it may be as cor-
rectly described 3-4-pinnatifid as pinnate.

Tab. LIY. Fig. 1 . Primary branch or division of Davallia
foeniculacea ; natural size. f. 2. Ultimate segments, one fertile,
— magnified ; f. 3. Fertile segment, more magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 54.

TAB. LIV.

Davallia (§ Dakeoide/e) FCENICULACEA, Hook.

Frondibus sesquipedalibus (et ultra?) subcoriaceo-lierbaceis
late ovatis acuminatis 4-pinnatis, divisionibus primariis cir-
cumscriptione ovato-lanceolatis tenui-acuminatis 6-8 polli-
caribus, secundariis tertiariisquelanceolatis segmentis angu s _
tissime linearibus ultimis vlx lineam longis subclavatis, soris
copiosis, involucris sobtariis suburceolatis ad marginem
interiorem infra apicern oblique sitis.

Hab. NavitiLevu of tbeFiji Islands, in woods on mountains,
Milne, in tbe Voy. of tbe Herald, under Capt. Denham, B.N.

The most finely and deeply cut of all tbe genus Davallia.
The resemblance to fennel leaves is indeed weakened by the
very copious sori, which are situated on the interior margin
of most of the ultimate segments, and so prominent, and so
oblique in direction, that a fertile segment not inaptly
resembles a tobacco-pipe, with a crest or wing on one side.
A very obscure costa passes through all the segments ; indeed
the ramification is of that character that it may be as cor-
rectly described 3-4-pinnatifid as pinnate.

T ab . LIY. Fig. 1 . Primary branch or division of Davallia
fceniculacea ; natural size. f. 2. Ultimate segments, one fertile,
— magnified ; f. 3. Fertile segment, more magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 54.

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TAB. LV.

HEMIONITIS lanceolata, Hook.

Stipite 8-10-pollicari crasso badio nitido, fronde submque
longa coriaceo-membranacea flrrna lato-lanceolata acumi-
nata anguste marginata costata, costa yalida subtus promi-
nente fusca nitidissima, venis patentibus ubique anastomo-
santibus areolas oblongas hexagonas formantibus, venis
omnibus soriferis.

Hab. Mountain woods, interior of Naviti Levu, Fiji Islands,
Milne , in Capt. Denham’s Voyage of the Herald.

This quite accords in generic character with the original
Hemionitis of Linnasus, and is the only known species of that
genus, with quite undivided fronds. Indeed without the sori,
and without observing the venation, this plant would pass
for an Acrostichum of the Elaphoglossum group. Only 2 spe-
cimens of it appear to have been preserved by Milne, and
these are destitute of caudex: but in other respects they are
very perfect. The veins are all connected just within the
margin by a longitudinal vein as represented at our fig. 2.

Tab. LV. Hemionitis lanceolata; nat.size. Fig. 1 . Portion
of fertile frond ; magnified, f. 2. Section showing the mar-
ginal venation, magnified, f. 3. Sori more highly magnified.

Cent, 2, t. 55.

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LVI.

Davallia (Odontoloma) La peybousii, Hook.

Caudice brevi repente, stipitibua brevibus bipollicaribus
a gg re gatis, frondibus 6 uncias ad sesquipedalem herbaceis
lanceolatis pinnatis basi angustatis, pinnis numerosis polli-
caribus horizontalibus semiovatis falcatis, parte inferiore
integra, superiore profunde pinnatifida, laciniis 6-8 anguste
cuneatis apice truncatis subsinuatis rarissime bi-trifidis,
venis simplicibus v. furcatis, soris infra apicem sitis, invo-
lucris reniformi-oblongia transversis membranaceis subin-
tesris, racbi stricta straminea nitida.

Hab. Island of Vaniholla or Pitt’s Island, S. Pacific Ocean,
the site of the disastrous shipwreck of La Peyrouse in
1788, Mr. Charles Moore. Naviti Levu, Fiji Islands,
damp places on mountains, Milne , in Capt. Denham’s Voy-
age of the Herald.

This Davallia, though quite distinct from, is nevertheless
nearly allied to, the very elegant Davallia Blumeana, Hook.
(Sp. Fil. p. 177, t. 54. A) from Java. That species is bipin-
nate; this simply pinnate. Our first specimens received were
from Mr. Moore, gathered in the island which was the scene
of the shipwreck of the unfortunate La Peyrouse, from which
circumstance I have derived the specific name.

Tab. LVI. Davallia La Peyrousii ; nat. size. — Fig. 1.
Sterile segments ; magnified, and f. 3 & 4, fertile segments ;
more magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 56.

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TAB. LVII.

AsPIDIUM (POLYSTICHUM) TRIPTERON, ICze.

Caudice brevi erecto crasso squamis magnis ovatis acuminatis
paleaceis, stipitibus ciespitosis semipedalibus ad pedaleru
stramineis inferne squamosis, frondibus 1-1§ ped. submem
branaceis circumscriptione hastato-lanceolatis acuminatis
pinna tis, pinnis numerosis U unciam longis horizontalibus
sessilibus e basi oblique cuneata superue auriculata lanceo-
latis grosse serratis setoso-mucronatis subtus rachibusque
parce albo-paleaceis, infimis duabus suboppositis 4-6-un-
cialibus iterum pinnatis, sons plerisque subbiserialibue, in-
volucris parvis orbicularibus peltatis demum obsoletis.

Aspidium tripteron, Kze. Bot. Zeit. 6. p. 509 ; Metten. Aspid

p. 51.

Hab. Island of Tsus Sima, Gulf of Korea, Wilford. Japan,
Goring ; Hakodadi, C. P. Hodgson, Esq.

A species well distinguished among the Polystichum - group
of Aspidium by the flaccid and submembranaceous texture,
simply pinnate, except the lowest pair of pinnaj ; these are
greatly elongated and again pinnate, resembling two ears, and
spreading so horizontally as to form in circumscription a has-
tate frond. In the more advanced state of the fructification,
the delicate involucre is so shrunk and concealed by the
copious capsules of the sori that the Fern resembles a Poly-
podium (§ Phegopteris.)

Iab LVII. Aspidium tripteron; nat. size. Fig. 1. Por-
tion of a pinna with young 80 ri. f 2. An old sorus, with
the involucre nearly obsolete ;■ -magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 57,

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TAB. LYIII.

NlPHOBOLTJS LINEABIPOLItfS, Hook.

Caudice longe repente ramoso easpe copiose radiculoso
squamis subulatis ferrugineis dense imbricatis nitidis
setoso-paleaceo, frondibus sparsis erectis carnoso-coriaceis
Bessilibus 3-4 uncias longis 1 lineam latis linearibus totis
pilis stellatis pallide ferrugineis tectis, demuni snperne pra-
cipue nudiusculis viridibus, soris oblongo-rotundatis bise-
rialibus series in dimidiam superiorem frondis, venis remotis
anastomosantibus, areolis appendiculatis.

ELab, Island of Tsus Sima, gulf of Korea, growing on rocks
along with Pleopeltis nuda, Hook. (Polypodium sesquipe-
dale, Wall.)

The genus Nipliololus of Kaulfuss, is one among the Poly-
podioid Ferns that is retained by some Botanists and rejected
by others. Few as are its characters, it is generally easily
distinguished by its habit and its stellato-tomentose covering.
Its venation is very indistinct and difficult to be seen and to
be accurately represented, and is said by Presl to be different
in different species. Then as to specific differences they de-
pend mostly on the outline of the fronds which are uniformly
undivided. In favor of this being considered distinct I may
observe that its fronds are so narrow and so uniformly small
(4 inches being the extreme length) that it is at once distin-
guishable from every other kind known to me.

Tab. LYIII. Plant of Niphobolus linearifolius ; nat. size.
Fig. 1. Apex of a fertile frond magnified, f. 2. Fertile
portion, more highly magnified, and exhibiting the venation.
/. 3. Tuft of stellated hairs ; very highly magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 68.

TabJj VH1.

TAB. LIX.

Hypolepis PTERIDIOIDES, Hook.

Stlpite straminco, fronde (at vkletur) ampla, basi tricbotome
et pedatim divisa 3-4-pinnata submembranacea glabra sic-
citate olivacea, pinnis primariis subsesquipedalibus obliqu e
ovatis acuminatis petiolatis reliquis sessilibus lanceolatis
acuminatis profunde fere ad costam pinnatifidis apicibus
acuminatis serrato-lobatis, laciniis vix semipollicaribus oblon-
gis obtuse crenato-serratis margine utrinque monosoris, venis
remotis liberis infra medium furcatis ramis patentibus, soris
(in depressione seu cavitate frondis) impressis, involucris
transversim oblongis fuscis, rackibus stramineis nitidis, costis
versum apicem pinnarum supra spinulosis.

Hab. Peak of Fernando Po, at 7000 feet elevation, Gustav
Mann . n. 348.

The habit of this Fern, whose fronds are probably too
large to be preserved entire, seems to be quite that of some
exotic species of Pteris (Eupteris) of the group to which
Ft. arguta, Ait. and Ft. Jlabellata, Thunb. belong, and in
some of them the sori are in a degree abbreviated, but here
they are as much so as (or more than) in many species of
Adiantum, and which have induced me to refer this species
to Hypolepis. In the present plant I never find more than
one sorus on each side of a segment, and these sori are invari-
ably sunk in a cavity or depression, which occasions a cor-
respondent swelling, of the same form, on the superior side
of the frond.

Tab. LIX. Fig. 1, 2. Portions of a fertile frond of Ilypo-
lepis pteridioides ; — nat. size. f. 2, 3. Sori seen from be-
neath, and f. 4. Impressions caused by the sori, as seen on
the superior side of the segment ; more or less magnified.

Ceitt. 2, t. 59.

TAB. LX.

Asplenium (Darea) Mann it, Hook ,

Nanum, caudice fiiiformi sarmenteso longe repente intricate?
copiose radiculoso, stipitibus subaggregatis vix biuncialibus
gracilibus, frondibus biuncialibus oblongo-ovatis subcarnoso-
coriaceis viridibus bipinnatis, pinnis remotis, pinnulis subu-
nilateralibus, sterilibus linearibus obtusis, fertilibus apice
oblique semiovatis rostratis monosoris, involucro (ratione
plantie) amplo laxe membranaceo.

Hab. Peak of Fernando Po, elev. 3000 feet above the level
of the sea, epiphytal, Gustav Mann .

Evidently one of the Darea - group of Asplenium, but ex-
tremely unlike any described species, though allied to A,
brachypterum of Kunze : yet it can hardly be a state of that ;
the caudex and pinnules and habit are so different. The for-
mer resembles a slender filiform stolon, forming dense copious
intricated masses, at distances throwing out tufted fibrous
roots, on the undersides, and a few clustered fronds on the
upper. The fertile segments with their oblique semiovate
apex almost exactly resemble in shape the Buxlaumia apliylla
among mosses, and the delicate membranaceous involucre is
large and lax. The term pinnatifid is more applicable to
these fronds than pinnate : a single vein passes through the
centre and terminates in a clavate apex below the extremity
of each segment ; from the upper side this sorus arises.

Tar. LX. Portion of a tuft of Asplenium Mannii, nat. size.
Fig. 1. Anterior side of a fertile pinna or segment, and f. 2.
Posterior, or underside of ditto ; — magnified.

Cent, 2. i. 60.

Tab, LX.

TAB. LXI.

Adiantum (Euadiantum) flexuosum, Hook.

Caudice ascendente nodoso-ramoso dense squamis subulatis
aterrimis paleaceo, stipitibus subaggregatis erectis ebeneis
piloso-asperis, frondibus sesquipedalibns et ultra oblongo-
lanceolatis seu ovatis coriaceo-membranaceis atro-viridibus
3-4-pinnatis, pinnis prlmariis magis minusve refractis ob-
longis inferne bipinnatis, pinnulis petiolatis reniformi-obcor-
datis, sterilibus varie lobatis, fertilibus margine integris,
yenis fiabellatim dicbotomis, soris approximatis subunifor-
mibus elliptico-oblongis coriacels, racbibus ubique insigniter
angulato-flexuosis pubescenti-tomentosis scabriusculis.

Hab. Santa Rosa, Vera Paz, in hollows of pine ridges, Gua-
temala, Osbert Salvyn, Esq.

A new species and a very distinctly marked one, peculiar in
the scandent habit, in the refracted pinnas (as is common in
other scandent ferns) and in the asperous zigzag rachis.

Tab. LXI. Fig. 1, 2, 3. Portions of Adiantum flexuosum ;
nat. size. f. 4. Fertile pinnule ; magnified, f. 5. Sorus, more
highly magnified.

Cent. t. G1

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TAB. LX1I.

Nei’iirodium (Lastrea) Milnei, Hook.

Stipite racliibusque primariis intense nigro-ebeneo nitidis,
frondibus sesquipedalibus ovatis accuminatis membranaceis
atro-viridibus opacis bipinnatis, pinnis primariis ovatis
petiolatis, secundariis sessilibus lanceolatis profunde pinna-
tifidis lobis oblongis obtusiusculis sinuato-dentatis sub-pin-
natifidisve, sinubus lobulo acuto donatis, venis remotis sim-
plicibus medium versus unisoris, involucro carnoso-celluloso
cordato-reniformi, marginibus dentatis dentibus glandida
globosa terminatis.

Hab. Wooded mountains, interior of Naviti Levu, Fiji
Islands, Alex. Milne, Denham’s Voyage of H.M.S. Herald.

I cannot refer this to any described species of the Lastrea
group of Neplirodium . It presents few striking distinguish-
ing characters. The stipes (as much as was gathered) and
the main rachises are indeed singularly black and ebeneous ;
and on many of the ultimate pinnae the sinuses are furnished
with an acute lobe, or tooth (see our Jig. 2).

Tab. LXII. Fig. 1. Portion of Nephrodium Milnei; —
nat. size. f. 2. Segment of a pinna with sori ; — magnified,
f 3. Sorus ; — more highly magnified.

Cent. 2. x. 62

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TAB. LXIIL

Trichomanes cellulosum, Kl.

Caudice mediocri ascendente vel longe repente _ rigidissime
fibroso-radiculoso, stipitibus sparsis approximate 2-4 unci-
aJibus supcrne alatis firrnis atris, frondibus 2-4 uncias lon-
gis rigidis atro-viridibus laxe cellulosis (areolis subrotundis)
tri-4-pinnatis seu potius pinnatifidis, laciniis copiosis subpa-
tentibus linearibus seu subspathulatis obtusis integerrirnis,
costa centrali crassa rigida, soris copiosis marginalibus lacinias
breves terminantibus, involucro brevi-cylindraceo marginato
ore paululum dilatato integro, collumella elongata longe ex-
serto crasso.

Trichomanes cellulosum, Kl. in Linnaa , 18, p. 531. Kze. in
Bot. Zeit. 5, p. 418. J. W. Sturm, in Mart. FI. Bras. 23,
p. 269, t. 18, f. 13, Van den Bosch, Syn. Hymenoph, p. 25.

Tr. filiforme, J. W. Sturm, in Mart. 1. c. p. 269, t. 18, f. 14?
(The two figures in Martius are represented in “ nature-
printing, ” excluding the caudex, and give no idea of the
fructification or of the nature of the frond).

Hab. Tropical America; Roraima, British Guiana, Bolt.
Schomburgh, and Kunnuku Mountains, Rich. Scliomburgk, n.
1184 ; Valley of the Amazon ; Bana of Rio Negro and San
Carlos, N. Brazil, R. Spruce, n. 1399, 2278 (n. 873, accord-
ing to Sturm,) and n. 2838, segments of the fronds a little
broader and more opaque.

Few who have not studied the numerous individuals of the
family of Hymenophyllacece , can have an idea of the difficulty
that attends their correct discrimination. Happily Dr. van den
Bosch, for some time distinguished by his valuable writings
on the Mosses of the Netherlands possessions in the Malay
Archipelago, has taken up this beautiful group of Ferns, with
an amount of knowledge and of zeal which augurs well for the
Monograph, and many of the species are to be illustrated by
figures. The present species seems to be peculiar to B. Gui
ana and to the valley of the Amazon ; and judging by the
references to Spruce’s specimens, T. filiforme of J. W. Sturm
in Martius is only a var. of it.

Tab. LXHI. Exhibits a plant of Trichomanes celhdosum,
Kl. ; — nat. size. f. 1. Portion of a pinna with fructification.
f. 2. Involucre laid open to show the capsules at the base of
the columnar receptacle ; — magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 63.

Tdb.LXlll.

TAB. LXIV.

DAVALLIA (ClXNEATiE?) TRICHOMANOIDES, Ilook.

Caudice? stiplte subspithamseo (et ultra?) fusco-viridi terete
fronde perelegante pedali et ultra ovata acuminata 4-pi n -
nata seu decomposita, pinnis primariis 4-8 uncias longia
ovato-lanceolatis, secundariis 1-2 uncias longis, laciniis om-
nibus angustissimis lineari-spathulatis obtusis vix lineam
longis plerisque soriferis, soris terminalibus, involucro ob-
longo-lingulato segmentis angustiore, costa lata, raebibus
stramineo -viridibus nitidis.

Hab. Wooded Mountains, Naviti Levu, Fiji Islands, Alex.
Milne in Voyage of H.M.S. Herald, Capt. Denham, R.N.

This is assuredly the most elegant of the genus Davallia ,
so narrow in its segments that they seem to be composed
of the midrib with a very narrow herbaceous margin. The
apices of the fertile segments which are very copious have the
appearance of being unequally 2-lipped : the segment itself
being much dilated, and the involucre, an oblong or tongue-
shaped scale, is appressed to it, quite concealing the sorus
or cluster of capsules in its axis.

Tab. LXIV. Represents a primary pinna of Davallia trich-
omanoides, with fructification ; natural size. Fig. 1 . Segments,
of which one is fertile; magnified, f. 2. Apex of a segment
with involucre, and f 3, the same, with the involucre removed,
showing the sorus of capsules on long pedicels : more magni-
fied.

Cent. 2. t. 64.

TAB. LXV.

Anemia Mexicana, Kl . ; var. paucifolia.

Elata, frondibus pinnatis, pinnis 3-13 ovatis obtusis magis
minusve acuminatis serratis brevi-petlolatis glabris penni-
veniis, venulis dicbotomis liberis, spicis pedunculatis pin-
natis, pinnis pinnatifidis apice confluentibus lobis capsuli-
feris oblongis longe villosis.

Anemia Mexicana, Kl. in Linncca, 18, p • 526, Kze . in Schk.
Fil. Suppl. p. 75, t. 131. Hook. Icon. Plant t. 988.

(3. paucifolia ; minor, frondibus ternatis. (Tab. Nostr. LXV.)
Anemia speciosa, Presl, Suppl. Pterid. p. 89 ; Liebm. Fil. Mex.
p. 151,

Hab. (3. Western Mexico, Nee. Mountains of Oaxaca, elev.
4500 feet, Lielmann. Lofty mountains of Guatemala, Lan-
quin, Vera Paz, elev. 2000 feet, O alert Salvin, Esq.

This plant which is maintained as a distinct species, under
the not very appropriate name of A. speciosa, by Presl and
Liebmann (from whom I have received authentic specimens),
I can only consider as variety of Anemia Mexicana , a variety
probably occasioned by its locality, at a considerable elevation
on the mountains. The fronds are of a firmer texture, the
p inna* are fewer, generally 3, and these shorter and blunter.

Tab. LXV. Plants, sterile and fertile, of Anemia Mexicana,
/3. ; natural size. Fig. 1 . Portion of a sterile pinna; and f.
2, Portion of a fertile spike ; magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 65.

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TAB. LX VI.

Alsophila PODOPHYLLA, Hook.

Frondibus bi-tri-(quadri ?)-pinnatis glabris, pinnulis 4-6-polli-
caribus petiolatis lineari-oblongo-lanceolatis coriaceo-mem-
branaceis acuminatis sinuato-dentatis basi truncatis apice
serratis terminali pinnatifido-lobato majore subtus pallidi-
oribus, venis infimis solummodo cum proxima vena anasto-
mosantibus, soris copiosis sparsia globosis, capsulis com-
pacts, receptaculo magno hemisphajrico, costa subtus pu-
bescenti-squamulosa.

Alsopbila podophylla, Hook, in Kew Gard. Misc. 9, p. 334.
IIab. Chusan, Alexander. Hong Kong, Dr. Harland, J. C.
Bowring, Esq. Col Urquhart ; abundant at the foot of Vic-
toria Peak, in a ravine, Wilford.

A very distinct and well marked species ; its nearest ally is
probably Als. gigantea, Wall. The caudex is 4-8 feet high.
Fronds 8-9 feet long. Stipes densely scaly below, and, as
well as the main rachises, bright castaneous when dry, rough
to the touch, but not to the naked eye, with minute raised
points. Veins in fascicles ; the lowest veinlet in each fascicle
very frequently uniting with the lower one of the opposite
fascicle and thus forming a triangular areole next the costa,
the rest of the veinlets free. This plant would probably be
a Gymnosphcera of Blume and may be, and possibly is, his G.
glabra ; but with the very brief character given by that
author of less than two lines, it is impossible to form any
decided opinion, one way or the other.

Tab. LXVI. Figs. 1, 2, 3. Portions of a frond ol Also-
phila podophylla, sterile and fertile ; natural size. f. 4. Por-
tion of a fertile pinna, showing the venation ; magnified, f. 5 .
Single sorus, and/'. 6. Receptacle, from which the capsules
have fallen; more magnified.

Cekt. 2. T. 66.

Tab.LXVl

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Pamplm.imp

Fitet lel,et lith

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TAB. LXVII.

Nephrodium (Lastrea) Fijiense, 1 look.

Fronde ampla bipedali et ultra submembranacea firma sicci-
tate fusco-viridi late ovato-acuminata bipinnata, pinnis
primariis remotis ovatis acuminatia petiolatis (supremis
exceptis), secundariis seu pinnulis oblongo-linearibus acutia
sessilibus profunde fere ad costam pinnatifidis, segmentis
oblongo-ovatis cillatis obtusia inferioribua pinnatifido-lobatia
reliquis subintegris, aoria biaerialibus in dorao venularum
involucris orbiculari-cordatia pilis clavatis cillatis, stipite
racbibusque ferrugineo-paleaceo-hirautia.

Hab. Naviti Levu, Fiji Islands, Milne, n. 159, on mountains,
not common.

I am not aware of any described species of the Lastrea-
group to which this can be referred. There is nothing to
correspond with it among the Lastreas in Brackenridge’s
Ferns of the Fijian group.

Tab. LXVII. Fig. 1 . Primary pinna with a portion of
the main rachis, and/ 2. Apex of a frond of Nephrodium
Fijiense ; natural size. f. 3. Fertile segment of a frond,
with sori ; /. 4. Single sorus. /. 5. Portion of an involucre ;
all more or less magnified.

ClNI, 2, i, 07,

Paiirplm.ixttp

TAB. LXVIII.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) INDUKATUM, Hook.

Candice repente radicante, stipitibus approximatis atris biun-
cialibus squamosis, squamis subulato-setaceis atris basi
Iciciniatis, frondibus 4-6 uncialibus erectis lanceolatis rigido-
cbartaceis olivaceo-viridibus pinnatis, pinnis subsessilibus
horizontalibus 4-5 lineas longis 2J latis semi-ovatis basi
superne productis apice obtusis nunc leviter falcatis cre-
nato-serratis, venis remotiusculis, soris obliquis biserialibus
linearibus, involucris rigide coriaceis fuscis, rachi atro-villosa.

Hab. Interior of Naviti Levu, Fiji Islands. Milne, n. 131 .

This will perhaps rank near Aspl. hirtum of the Furcatum-
gioup of Fuasplenium, of which it may possibly prove to be
a small variety. All the specimens however are very uniform,
and none exceeds in size those here represented. Some of
them have lost their lower pinna?, as if they separated at a
joint, as in so many species of Neplirolepis. This may be
an accidental circumstance, arising probably from a season of
unusual heat and drought ; so that I have not ventured to
indicate it in our figure.

Tab. LXYIII. Plant of Asplenium induratum ; — natural
vze. Fig. 1 . Scale from the stipes, and/ 2. Pinna with
son magnified. / 3. Sorus, more magnified.

Ciki. 2. t. 68,

Tab. L XV 111

del et lith. . P amjdm , imp

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TAB. LXIX.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) LONGICAUDA, Hook.

Caudice brevi repente copiose fibroso, stipitibus spithamneis et
ultra nitidis, frondibus pedalibus ad bipedalem pergamen-
taceis (siccitate olivaceis) firmis, pinnis 5-9 late oblongo-
lanceolatis, 6-8 uncialibus acuminatis caudatis proliferis v.
cauda delapsa truncato-emarginatis margine integerrimis
v. sinuato-lobatis terminali sfepe longissima caudato-acumi-
nata et apice prolifera, costa subtus _ prommente, venis
remotis obliquis simplicibus v. furcatis, soris linearibus
remotis margine approximatis.

Asplenium emarginatum, Hook. Sp. Fil. 3, p. 100 (in part),
not Beauv.

Hab. Western tropical Africa, S. of the line, Dr. Curror ;
Prince’s Island, Barter in Baikie’s Niger Expedition, n.
1900 ; Fernando Po, on trees, Peak Mountain, at an ele-
vation above the sea of 3000 feet, Gustav Mann , n. 341.

A good suite of specimens which I now possess of this
Asplenium from the late Mr. Barter, and from Mr. Gustav
Mann , has convinced me that I have erred in uniting Dr.
Curror’ s plant with the A. emarginatum of Palisot de Beau-
vois: and this will be better, understood when I shall shortly
give, in the present work, a figure and more perfect charac-
ter of the true emarginatum. The two plants are certainly
nearly allied : but the present may be known by the follow-
ing characters. It is a larger and less delicate plant, of a
very different and much firmer texture, resembling that of
parchment : its colour when dry is a dirty olivaceous brown.
The pinna: are entire (not serrated) and in its normal state
gradually accuminated at the apex, and the terminal pinna
is not, though larger than the lateral ones, materially altered
in shape : but it often happens that the pinnae are proliferous,
then the lateral ones are narrowly caudate at the apex and
a scaly bud forms : when this becomes a plant and falls away
a deep and wide notch takes its place. If the terminal
pinna is proliferous it is remarkably and gradually attenuated
(to the length of 1 or 1 foot) and the apex copiously pro-
liferous. The son are always distant and are situated nearer
the margin than the costa : the reverse is the case in A.
emarginatum.

Tab. LXIX. Represents a proliferous frond of Asplenium
longicauda natural size . Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile pinna,
with a sorus, magnified.

Cesi. 3. 1, 69,

tab. lxx.

AntEOPHYUM GaLEOTTII, Fee.

Caudice vix repente subnullo, radicibus fibrndo „ • .

cmspitosis dense ferrugineo-tomentosis frondibus n Pl ° S1S et

spithammis ad pedalibus lorato-WdSI^Sl
cidis sessilibus, costa latiuscula obscura, venis immerL •
distinctly anastomosantibus areolis oblongis, soris CSribn*

;:sr u ,- fk ‘ k - -

Antrophyum Galeottii, Fee, Antroph. p. 51, t. 5, f. 4 (1832)
Antropbyum falcatum. Mart, et Gal p. 49, t. 12 (not Blume).

An pt. r ?3\ y i U 839). nSif0rme ’ H00k ‘ iU Benth - Plantcc Hartwe 9-

Scoliosorus enslformis, Moore, Ind. Fil. p. xxix.

Hab. Mexico, Galeotti, Hartweg , n. 522. Guatemala, Skinner
and on mountains of Vera Paz, elev. 3500-5000 feet’
Osbert Salvin, Esq.

This is probably a very rare Fern, apparently peculiar to
Mexico, where it has been detected by Galeotti and Hartweg,
and Guatemala, whence we have specimens from Mr. Skinner,
and most beautiful ones from Mr. Salvin. Like some other
Antropliya it has perfectly sessile fronds, and since we have
satisfied ourselves that it has anastomosing venation, and
sometimes anastomosing sori, though that is by no means
inconsistent with Antrophyum , we retain it in the Genus of
which it is a true member. Mr. Moore (under his Genus
Scoliosorus) says, e< This plant having neither netted veins
nor netted sori, cannot belong to Antrophyum , and is quite
different from every other established Genus.

Tab. LXX. Fertile plant of Antrophyum Galeottii, Hook.
Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile frond, with sori; — magnified.

CilfT, 2. 1, 70.

1

TAB. LXXI.

Gkasimitis (Loxogramme) Salvinii, Hook.

Caudice repente squamoso radicibusque fusco-tomentosis
frondibus remotis subspithamasis submembranaceis herba-
ceis lanceolatis basi late attenuate sessilibus costatis linea-
que centrali pallida, soris versus apicem biserialibus cos-
tamque approximate erecto-patentibus linearibus oblon-
gisve.

Hab. Yera Paz, Guatemala, elev. 3500 to 5000 feet, Osbert
Salvin, Esq.

In color, texture, and a good deal in form, this Fern has a
very considerable affinity with our Antropkyum Galeottii
(Tab. 70); but there are characters present too important to
allow the two to be considered identical, whether in respect
to species or even Genus. The form is different, exactly
lanceolate not at all approaching to lorate (strap-shaped) the
texture is much more pellucid so that the venation is readily
distinguishable (which is so indistinct in the Antropkyum as
to have escaped the notice of some authors.) We have
already, in describing the Antropkyum Galeottii, spoken of
the frequent presence of short linear or oblong sori in series,
as in Grammitis : but such are always nearer the margin than
the costa, and invariably mixed with branched, if not anas-
tomosing sori; here, on the other hand, the sori are placed
nearer the costa than the margin, with great regularity ; and
though varying in length, always undivided, everything
indeed indicating the section Loxogramme of the Genus
Grammitis. This species we name in compliment to Osbert
Salvin, Esq., who allowed us to share in a beautiful collection
of F erns he lately collected in Guatemala and Mexico.

Tab. LXXI. Fertile plant of Grammitis Salvinii, Hook.:
natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile frond, with a linear
sorus. f. 2. Portion of fertile frond, with an oblong sorus;—
magnified.

Cent. 2. i. 71.

TAB. LXXII.

Cheilanthes intramarginalis, Hook.

Var. grosse serrata.

Cheilanthes intramarginalis, Hook. Sp. Fil. 2 p. 112, ( which
see for description, synonyms, and remarks). Metten. Cheil-
anthes, p. 49.

Var. Segmentis fertilibus grosse serratis. Metten. 1. c« p. 50,
f. 38-41. (Tab. Nostr. LXXXII.)

Pteris Max. Mart, et Gal Fil. Mex. p. 53, t. 14, f. 2.

Hab. Mexico and Guatemala, Martens et Galeotti, Volcan
de Agua, Guatemala, elev. 6000-7000 feet, Oshert Salvin ,
Esq.

In what has been considered the normal state . of this
plant, the sterile fronds alone exhibit, and very indistinctly,
serratures ; the fertile fronds none. But beautiful specimens
before us of this species (some of them 18 inches long),
in full fructification, have the segments so strongly serrated
that I at first looked upon this as a new species, and it
certainly is that state of Cheilanthes intramarginalis, which
Martens and Galeotti published as distinct from that species
under the name of Pteris fallax. It is a satisfaction to us to
find that Mettenius in his recent work on the Genus Cheilan-
thes, agrees with us in referring the plant to Cheilanthes, rather
than to Pteris, or Allosorus, or Pellcea, or Cassebeera, or
Platyloma, in which several genera it has been placed according
to the respective views of authors who have written upon it.

Tab. LXXII. Represents a fertile frond of Cheilanthes
intramarginalis, var.; natural size. Fig. 1. Fertile pinna.
f. 2. Portion of an involucre ; and f. 3. Portion of a sterile
pinna ; — magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 72.

TabJjXXll

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TAB. LXXIII.

Anteophyum Mannianum, Hook .

Caudice brevi repente dense tomentoso-radiculoso, stipitibus
approximate gracilibus complanatis, frondibus amplis 6-8
uncias longis latisque rhombeo-i’otundatis membranaceis
firmis subpellucidis (siccitate fusco-olivaceis) caudato-acu-
minatis subsinuato-serratis basi brevissime attenuatis ecos-
tatis, venis conspicuis elevatis ubique anastomosantibus
areolis oblongis, soris superficialibus saepe interruptis vel
subcontinuis.

Hab. Epiphytal, on trees, Peak of Fernando Po, at an eleva-
tion of 3000 feet above tbe sea level, Gustav Mann, n. 367.

This is unquestionably the finest species of the beautiful
Genus Antrophyum yet known to us: and is one of tbe
many novelties that rewarded our admirable collector, Mr.
Gustav Mann, for bis late arduous but successful ascent of the
famous tropical Peak of Fernando Po, whose elevation is
estimated at 10,700 feet. The nearest affinity of the species
is, doubtless, with the A. latifolium, Blume, FI. Jav. p. 75,
in note, (A. Boryanum , in the text, and on the plate, Tab. 31,
and of Fee, but not of Kaulfuss, or Hook, et Grev.) : but it
is truly distinct; Blume’s plant being much smaller, of a
carnoso-coriaceous, very firm texture, quite opaque when dry,
with sunken veins ; its colour, when dry, pale yellowish green,
so that the copious brown sori which occupy the disk (not
extending to the margin) are exceedingly conspicuous on the
pale coloured frond : the base is gradually attenuated into
the shorter and broader stipites. — In our plant the dry dark-
colored frond is so membranaceous and pellucid that the
minutely cellular texture is distinctly seen with a magnify-
ing lens of small power, and the venation is very conspi-
cuous, slender, firm, and as it were prominent (not sunk).

Tab. LXXHI. Plant of Antrophyum Mannianum, Ilook.,

ei i e, nat size. Fig. 1 . Portion of a fertile frond, with sori ;
magnified.

Cent, 2. t, 73.

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Tal.LXXlll.

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tab. lxxiy.

Equisetum giganteum, L.

Caule erecto stricto 10-14-pedali et ultra diametro unciam
sequiunciam arete striato keviusculo copiose verticillatim
ramoso, ramis patentissimis numerosis 6-12 uncias longis
o-racllibus semilineam ad lineam latis simplicibus vel parce
ramulosis asperiusculis, caulis vaginis unciam longis (sic-
citate pallide testaceis), dentibus subulatis aterrimis magis
minusve unitis srepe semiunciam longis, lamoium dentibus
parvis liberis albis rarius atris, amentis ovato-cylindraeeis
acutis semipollicaribus.

Equisetum giganteum, Linn. Sp. PI p- 1517, Willd. Sp. PI.

5. p. 9.

Equisetum Poeppigianum ; A. Braun, Mst. in Fil. Lecliler.

p. 21, and in Lechl PI Peruv, n. 1556, f. 2, name onhj.
Equisetum ramosum, altissimum, Plumier, Plant. Amer. 2,
p. 115. t. 125.

Hab. West Indies, Plumier ; J amaica, Sloane; Arica, Peru,
Lecliler.

We are accustomed to see in geological collections fossil
specimens of gigantic European Equiseta , sucb as neither
Europe nor any part of the old world now possess in a living
state : but tropical America affords the present remarkable
existing species which almost vies with the fossil forms above
alluded to. Plumier has well represented a portion of the
plant from Martinique. Sloane, and Patrick Brown, and
Lunan record a very large 11 arborescent” Equisetum in Ja-
maica, no doubt this species. Lechler’s specimens arc very
much broken, for the plant seems very fragile, and our
representations are all fragmentary. Lechler found it at
Arica in Peru. No author however has made any mention of
its height. Our friend, Mr. Spruce, in all probability alludes
to this species when writing from the interior of. South
America, of a gigantic species of Equisetum, 20 feet high !

Tab. LXXIY. Fig. 1,2, 3. Portions from different parts
of a main stem of Equisetum giganteum L. ; and f. 4. Fertile
branch of the same; natural size. f. 5. Young spike or
amentum of flowers ; not yet emerged from its sheath, slightly
magnified, f. C. Fully formed spike, ditto; f • 7. Front
view of a fertile scale of the amentum ; f. 8. Side view ol
ditto; and/. 9 and 10. Capsules with their clavate, spiral fila-
ments ; — magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 74.

r

TAB. LXXV-

Asplenium (Euasplenium) Barteri, Hook .

Parvum, caudice subnullo, radicibus copiosissimia caespitosis,
stipitibus aggregatis gracilibus 1-2 uncialibus nigro-brun-
neis, frondibua subquadriuncialibus membranaceis atro-
viridibus pinnatis, pinnis 30-35 semiunciam longia horizon-
talibus approximatis nunc omnibua oppositis sessilibus
oblongis acutis basi oblique truncatis serratis superne
auric ulat is, terminali elongata gracili remote pinnatifida
siepe prolifera, venis remotiusculis, aoria oblongia, racbi
intense fusca compresso-alata.

Hab. Tropical Western Africa ; Aboli, on Trees, Barter , iii
Baikie’s Niger Exped. n. 1454.

This pretty Asplenium may'rank near A. pteropus, Kaulf.,
and Hook. Sp. Fil. p. 122, t. 177 ; but it is very different
from that and every other of the Genus with which I am
acquainted. Instead of tapering gradually to an acuminated
apex, the frond is, as it were, suddenly truncated and a ter-
minal pinna set on of a different shape from the lateral ones,
and very generally proliferous.

Tab. LXXV. Asplenium Barteri , Hook, ; natural size.
Fig. 1. Fertile pinna; magnified; and f 2. Sori, more highly
magnified.

Cent, 2, t, 75.

TahJjXXY.

2

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TAB. LXXVI.

Lygodium (Eulygodium) tolystachyum. Wall

Villosulum, longe seandens, ramis bipinnatis, pinnis remotis
geminatis 1-1 J pedalibus ad basin srnpe gemmiferis, pinnulis
alternis remotis petiolulatis in petiolulum articulatis, ste-
rilibus fertilibus eonformibns oblongis vel ovato-lanceola-
tis pinnatifidis, segmentis oblongis obtusis, fertilinm laciniis
soriferis, rachibus pubescentibus bine longeque ferrugineo-
villosis, venis liberis.

Lygodium polystachyum, Wall. Cat. n. 2200.

IIab. Malayan Archipelago and Peninsula. Woody moun-
tains of Pulo-Penang, Wallich. Mergui ( Griffith ) and
Tonglow, and Mergui, Rev. C. S. P. Parish , n. 46, Moul-
maine, Thos. Lobb.

An undescribed species of Lygodium , and unquestionably
among the most distinct of the Genus. Dr. Wallich was the
first to discover it, and we have specimens also from Griffith,
and from Mr. Parish. It appears to be an extensive climber,
the main rachis is deciduously villous and pubescent. The
primary pinnae spring in pairs from one point or side of the
main rachis, and often bear a shaggy gemma between them
at the base. The pinnae are 2-2 \ inches long, and what is, as
far as I know, peculiar to this species, the fertile pinnae do not
essentially differ from the sterile ones, they are merely a
little narrower, and the segments, somewhat contracted, bear
the two rows of capsules on the underside.

TAB. LXXVI. Fig. 1 . Portion of a fertile plant, of
Lygodium polystachyum, Wall.; natural size. f. 2. Sterile
pinna; nat. size. f. 3. Sterile segment; magnified, f. 4.
Fertile segment; magnified, f. 5. Sorus; and/. 6. Capsule;
more magnified.

C'eitt. 2. x. 76

Pamplin.invp

TAB. LXXVII.

Notiiochl.ena Raws on 1, Pappe.

Caudice lon^e repente squamis membranaceis rigidis subulatis
niaro - costatis paleaceo, stipitibus approximates _ demurn
niidis purpureo-ebeneis, frondibus lineanbus spitharnans
pinnatis, pinnis alternis remotiusculis subsessilibus cordato-
ovatis obtusis crasso-coriaceis lobato-pinnatmdis supra
nudis subtus densissime albidow.-ferrugmeo-pannoso-vil-
losis, lobis 5-9 rotundatis obtusis, margimbus submcrassatis
patentibus, soris marginalibus continuis, capsulis mgns,

Nothochkcna Rawsoni, Pappe, in Pappe and Rawson's Syn.
Fil. Afr. Austr. p. 42.

I-Iab. On bills between Spectakel and Komaggas, Namaqua-
land, S. Africa, Rev. II. Whitehead, 1856.

Much as this is allied in habit and geneial appcaiance to
the South American NoihochlcBna rufa (see Tab. LII. of
this volume) and to some other species of that Genus, and
of Cheilanthes of S. America, it is in reality extremely
different. The caudex is long and creeping, clothed with
imbricating, subulate, erose scales, which aie veiy rigid in
consequence of the broad black costa which runs through the
centre. The pinna; are green, and free from tomentum above,
beneath densely woolly, sometimes rich tawny or ferruginous,
sometimes nearly white. The margin is not reflexed, nor at
all involucriform, so that the black capsules are quite exposed,
forming a continuous line along the margin.

This is well described by Pappe and Rawson in their Synop-
sis of the Ferns of S. Africa, and is very rare in the Colony,
only one locality having yet been discovered, and that was
detected by the Rev. Mr. Whitehead. I am indebted to
Wm. Rawson, Esq. C.B., and to Rear-Admiral Sir h rederick
Grey,. K.C.B., for fine specimens.

Tab. LXXVII. Plant with sterile and fertile fronds of
Nothochlcena Rawsoni, Pappe; natural size. Fig 1. Scale
from the caudex ; f. 2. Upper side of a pinna ; f. 3. Under
side of a fertile pinna ; f. 4. Portion of sorus ; f. 5. Capsule;
f. 6. Hairs from the tomentum at the back of the frond ; all
more or less magnified.

Clara 2. T. 77.

TAB. LXXVIII.

Gymnopteris (Leptochilus) MINOR, Ilook .

p arV£lj caudice repente crassitie penn® anserine apice squa-
moso, stipitibus remotis gracilibus filiformibus, frondibus
sterilibus membranaceis oblongis lato-lanceolatisve costatis
in stipitem 2-2J uncias longum attenuates, venis anastomo-
santibus angulato-areolatis, areolis appendiculatis prope
maro-inem minoribus, venulis ultimis clavatis liberis ; fron-
dibus fertilibus biuncialibus linearibus in stipitem quatuor
uncias longum attenuatis.

Leptochilus minor, Fee , Acrost. p. 87, t. 25, f. 87 (ex cl. the
synonym of Gymnopteris normalis, J. Sm .)

Hab. Subtropical region, Khasia, near Churra, elev. 2-3000
feet ; Hook. fil. et Thomson. Isle of Samar, Phillipines,
Cuming, n. 326 ( according to Fee).

That this is the Leptochilus minor of Fee, there can be no
doubt ; and that author seems to have taken his figure from
Cuming’s Phillipine Island plant, n. 326 (the only locality
he gives for the species), and he quotes J. Smith’s Gymnop-
teris normalis , a name, without description unfortunately, to
Cuming’s n. 326; but that number in my Herbarium has
quite, or nearly quite, sessile sterile fronds, whereas Fee’s
plant he figures and describes “frondibus sterilibus longe
petiolatis so that it would appear that two species have
been distributed by Mr. Cuming under the same number.
The present one is remarkable for its small size, and the
great comparative length and slenderness of the stipites ;
especially of the fertile ones.

Tab. LXXVIII. Plants of Gymnopteris minor , Ilook. ;
natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile frond; and/. 2.
Portion of a fertile frond ; magnified.

Cint, 2. I, 78.

I»A39[XXYL

tab. lxxix.

Antrophyum Brookei, Ilooh

Caudice repente subulate - squamoso densissime ohvaceo-
tomentoso, frondibus c*spitosis membranaceis flaccidis 3-
nollicaribus ad spithamasam lineari-lanceolatis acuminate
hasi attenuatis sessilibus ecostatis, sons anguste lmeanbus
9.4 S£epe bno-e continuls slmplicibus nunc interrupts et
mrce ramosis immersis, venis anastomossantibus areolas
valde elongatas margini parallelas formantibus, capsulis pilis
articulatis intermixtis.

Hap.. On trees, Sarawak, Borneo, Thos. Lobb NavitL Levu,
Fiii Islands, on mountains, Milne, in.Yoy. ot H.M.S. Herald.
Samoan Islands, Rev. Mr. Parker.

The caudex of this is creeping, but as well as the roots, often
densely covered with a mass of olivaceous tomentum, so as
scarcely to be visible. Where the tufts of fronds arise the
caudex is seen to be paleaceous with subulate scales. F ronds
membranaceous, flaccid, three inches to a span, or almost a
foot lono-, one-third of an inch wide m the broadest pait,
narrow, linear-lanceolate, accuminated, ecostate, much taper-
ino- below, but not stipitate; a darkish line indeed runs through
the very narrow base, but nothing that can be called a. mid-
rib. The sori vary in form. In one specimen two uninter-
rupted longitudinal lines run for a length of five inches between
the centre and the margins, and a third but shorter continu-
ous line appears between one of these and the margin ; in
other specimens the sori form two to four somewhat parallel
lines, here and there branched and variously interrupted ; all
are sunk in a channel or groove in the substance of the frond,
and all arise from the veins which run longitudinally, while
oblique veinlets unite them so as to form very elongated
areoles.

I can no where find any Fern described corresponding
•with this. It seems to approach the Antropli • angustatum of
Brackenridge from Tahiti; but that has a stipes four inches
long. It very much resembles in general aspect the Antroph.
lineatum, Kaulf. (Polytaenium lineatum, Desv. and Hook.
Gen. Fil. Tab. CVII.), but that has copious parallel sori and a
distinct costa. Our Antrophyum Galeottii (see Tab. LXX.
of this volume), has the areoles and sori oblique.

Tab. LXXIX. Fig. 1 & 3. Antrophyum Brookei, Hook.;
fertile plants ; natural size. f. 2. Portion of a frond, showing
the venation, f 3. Grooved receptacle of. the capsules.
f 4. Capsule and accompanying articulated hairs ; magnified .

Cent. 2. t. 79.

Tdb.IX XlT

P ajoplm jmp

TAB. LXXX.

Asplenium (Euasplenium) EMARGINATUM, Beauv.

Caudice brevi crasso erecto dense fibroso-radicoso, stipitibus
ao-oregatis rachique subherbaceis, fronde ampla pedali ad
sesquipedalem submembranacea pmnata hete-viridi, pmnis
4-5-pollicaribus sesquiunciam ct ultra lat.is brevi-petiolatis
oblono-is obtusis dentato-serratis basi oblique cuneatis apice
profunde acute emarginatis sinu gemmifera, terminal! ma-
jore longe petiolata, venis patentibus copiosis uni-bifurcatis,
soris numerosis approximate costam non ad margin em ap-
proximate, involucris angustissimis albidis.

Asplenium emarginatum, Beauv. FI. d'Oware et de Benin, 2,
p. 6, t. 61. Metten. Asplen. p. 94, Jlook. Sp. Fil. 3, p.
101 (in part).

T -Ta p,. Tropical Western Africa, Mountains of Isle du Prince,
Bight of Benin, Palisot de Beauvois ; Onitoba, Barter, in
B aikie’s Niger Expedition, n. 1735. Fernando Po, on
mountains 1000 feet of elev. Gustav Mann, n. 343.

I am led to believe, in consequence of more perfect speci-
mens I have lately received of Beauvois’ Asplenium emargi-
natum, that Dr. Curror’s specimens alluded to in my habitats
for that plant in the Species Filicum, are different from M.
de Beauvois’, and I gladly correct my error, by publishing at
our Tab. LXIX. of this volume, Dr. Curror’s plant under
the name of A. longicauda, while I here represent what I
believe to be quite different, and the true plant of the author
of the “Flora d’Oware et de Benin.” It will be at once
seen that the present plant entirely wants the suddenly
accuminated points to the apices of the former species, and
equally the very long proliferous terminal pinna : here all
the pinna; are obtuse and emarginate. The texture of the
frond is more membranaceous, of a brighter green, and the
veins are more compact, the sori much closer, and longer and
narrower.

Tab. LXXX. Frond of Asplenium emarginatum, Beauv.;
natural size. Fig. 1 . Portion of a fertile pinna, with sori;
magnified, f. 2. Two lateral pinna3, fertile ; natural size.

Cent. 2. t. 80.

<U1 etlil-h

Tcuoplm., imp ■

f

tab. lxxxi.

Cheilanthes Kirk r i, Ilook.

Caudice ascendente radiculoso crasso, stipitibus spithamasis et
ultra caispitosis rigidis atro-purpureo-ebeneis nitidis inferne
subulato-squamosis, frondibus 4-pollicaribus conaceis opacis
cordiformibus profundissime tripartitis 5-lobo-palmatis, di-
visionibus primariis infimis semitriangularibus intermedia
triano-ulari omnibus bipinnatifidis laciniis ultimis oblongo-
lanceolatis acutiusculis sinubus acutis, sons copiosis unifor-
mibus, involucris subrotundis reniformibusve pallide fuscis
venas furcatas termiuantibus, costis subtus atenimis nitidis.

Jd-VB. Moramballa ^Mountain. Zambesi, elev. 3000-3o00 feet.
Di\ Kirk in Dr. Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition, Dec.
1858.

This very interesting plant lias so entirely the habit and
general structure of the well known Eteris, or P tUe a as it is
now by many called, geraniifolia, (see first Cent, of Kerns,
Tab. 15), that, without fructification, I cannot point a single
character by which the one can be distinguished from the
other ; but the sori of our present plant, are everywhere, and
upon all our specimens, so entirely these of Cheilanthes , that, so
long as that genus retains a place in our system, this plant
must be referred to it. It is true we have had occasion to
remark of several species of Cheilanthes, such a degree of
confluence in the sori as to render it doubtful whether they
should belong to one genus or the other, but here we have in
the sori of Pellea geraniifolia and of Cheilanthes Kirkii the
extremes of the two kinds of fructification, uniformly distinct
in the one, and quite continuous in the other.

Tab. LXXXI. Plant of Cheilanthes Kirkii, Hook. ; natu-
ral size. Fig. 1. Fertile segment of a frond ; magnified-, f.
2. Portion of a segment with sori, and showing the venation ;
more magnified.

*

Cent. 2. t. 81.

JskLXXIl.

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< ^H?4 JM, ftp

A-tck clelefMh.

T^aTujlmmj

TAB. LXXXH.

Asplexium (Euasplenium) Seelosii, Legb.

Nanum, frondibus longe stipitatis trifoliolatis, foliolis sessilibus
lanceolatis integerrimis vel grosse serratis undique distincte
birsutis pilis diaphanis, involucris albidis marginibus suber-
osis approximate subimbricatis.

Asplenium Seelosii, Leybold, in Flora , 1855, p. 81, and 348,
Tab. 15, Metten. Asplen. p. 142. Hook. Gen. et Sp. Fil.
v. 3, p. 176.

Acropteris Seelosii, Henjl. Aspl. Europ. p. 111.

Asplenium tridactylites, Bartl. in Herb. Kze. and Bolle in
Herb. Hook, (sterile fronds, simple, three lobed).

Hab. Clefts of Dolomitic rocks, at an elevation of from 4-
6000 feet, on the south and north-west side of the Schleern-
geberg, in South Tyrol, Seelos, C. Bolle.

This is perhaps the rarest of all European Ferns, confined
to a very limited locality in South Tyrol. The affinity is
evidently with small specimens of Aspl. septentrionale or Aspl.
Germanicum, and hence the plant would be an Acropteris
of Link. The only specimens I possess were obligingly sent
to me by Dr. Bolle ; they were accompanied with the locality
“ pres de Salum, au pied du Mont Geier, dans les fentes des
rochers calcaires, Tyrol meridionale.”

Tab. LXXXH. Fig. 1, 2, & 6. Plants of Asplenium Seelosii 7
Leyb. fertile and sterile ; natural size. f. 4. Perfect state of
the fertile frond, upper side ; f. 5. Fertile pinna, seen from
beneath, f. 3. Portion of a fertile pinna, with two sori ; all
more or less magnified.

Cnyr. 2. i, 82.

fitch. a.el ( etli±h.

Pamplm,'Jinp ,

.

TAB. LXXXIIL

Selaginella Sprucei, Hook .

Semipedalis ad pedalem, caule inferne repente stolonifero
superne ascendentc pinnatim ramoso ? rands seu pinnis
elono-atis arete foliosis obtusis 6-9 lineas latis, foliis liori-
zontalibus lingulato-oblongis obtusis uninerviis minute ser-
rulatis basi superiore dilatato-rotundatis, stipulis triplo
minoribus ovatis acuminatis subfalcatis erectis imbricatis,
amentis copiosis omnino lateralibus unciam sesquiunciam
longis flexuosis sutetragonis sajpissime deflexis, bracteis
ovatis subacumiuatis paululum carinatis.

Hab. On a mountain called Campana, near Tarapoto, Eastern
Peru, R. Spruce, n. 4623.

This, I have reason to believe, is quite new, and certainly
a most lovely species, worthy of bearing the name of so dis-
tinguished a traveller and so able a Botanist, as its discoverer,
Mr. Bichard Spruce. Its nearest affinity is perhaps with
S. Breynii, Spring.

Tab. LXXXIII. Upper portion of a plant of Selaginella
Sprucei, Hook.; nat. size. Fig. 1 . Upper side of a portion
of a branch, with leaves, stipules and a spike or amentum ;
magnified, f 2. Leaf; more magnified, f. 3. Bractea and
capsule, and/. 4. Spores; more magnified.

Cent, 2. t. S3.

r

PampUn.inrp.

TAB. LXXXIV.

Selaginella subarborescens, Hook.

Caule sesqnipedali erecto terete parce et appresse folioso basi
raclicoso, superne frondoso pinnatim et dichotome ramoso ;
fronde coriacea erecta 12-16 uncias longa, pinnulis vel ra-
mulis 6-8 uncialibus semiunciam latis linearibus acuminatis
apice fertilibus subtus pallidioribus ; foliis exacte horizon-
talibus oblongis acuminato-acutis paululum falcatis integer-
rimis uninerviis, stipulis parvis erectis imbricatis, amentis
terminalibus parvis binis ternisve lineari-oblongis nunc
subramosis ; bi’acteis cordato-ovatis acuminatis subserratis.

Hab. Bio Uapes, tributary of tbe Amazon, Brazil, in a
forest near Jauarate-Cochoeira, Ii. Spruce, n. 2540.

This noble species is, perhaps, the tallest of the genus, the
largest specimens that came under Mr. Spruce’s notice, he
observes, were 4| feet high : so that I have thought the name
of subarborescens not inappropriate. The leaves on the stipes
are close pressed, dark green, ovate, very distant, upwards
they gradually, as it were, pass into the foliage of the ffondose
portion. The stipules are remarkably small in proportion to
the size of the leaves.

Tab. LXXXIV. Stipes and portion of a frond of Selagi-
nella subarborescens, Hook . ; — natural size. Fig. 1. Stipules
and leaves, seen from above ; f. 2. The same seen from be-
neath ; — magnified, f. 3. Capsule ; f. 4. One of the three
seeds from the capsule ; f. 5. Bractea and antheridium, and
f. 4. Pollen grain ; all more highly magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 84.

TAB. LXXXV.

Selaginella densifolia, Spruce.

Quadri-sexuncialis, procumbens, subcoriacea, nitidissima (sub-
tus prcecipue) bipinnatim ramosa copiose flagellifero-iadi-
cans, ramis lato-linearibus siccitate supra canaliculatis sub-
tus convexis 1J-2 lin. latis apice fructiferis, foliis dense
imbricatis patentibus oblongis obtusis inmquilateralibus
uninerviis serratis infeme ciliatis basi superiore dilatatis
rotundatis, stipulis parvulis ovatis acuminatis imbricatis,
amentis tenninalibus solitariis vel binis semiunciam longis,
bracteis imbricatis ovatis acuminatis serratis.

Selaginella densifolia, Spruce, mst. in Herb, nostr.

Hab. Cerro de Morro, in shady moist places of the River

Orinoco, R ■ Spruce, n. 8809.

A small but extremely elegant species, remarkable for its
very compact, densely imbricated and glossy foliage, dark
green above, pale beneath ; and for the copious flagelliform
roots, which descend from the underside of the plant.

Tab. LXXXY. Plant of Selaginella densifolia, Spruce;
natural size. Fig. 1. Apex of a branch with its amentum.
f. 2. Stipules and leaves seen from above ; and^f. 3. Leaves
seen from beneath ; magnified, f. 4. Single leaf, and f. 5.
Bractea, with antheridium ; — more magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 85,

Tab, l, XXXV.

-Etch. lei, et litli .

TAB. L XXXVI.

Selaginella. Vogelii, Spring.

Bi-tripedalis, caudice repente, stipite pedali ad sesquipedalem
erecto nudiusculo ramisque primariis stramineo-fusco nitido
fronde stipitis longitudine orbiculari-ovata 3-4-pinnata’
pinnis ultimis oblongo-linearibus, foliis horizontaliter p a -
tentibus distichis subcoriaceis subsesquilineam longis,
primariis longe distantibus ovato-acuminatis, reliquis arete
approximate vix imbricatis lineari-oblongis. acutis integer-
rimis uninervibus subtus glancis basi inferiore adnata su-
periore rotundata-dilatata ; stipulis 4-plo minoribus ovatis
longe acuminatis imbricatis, amentis linearibus terminali-
bus subtetragonis laxis, bracteis ovato-acuminatis subcari-
natis erecto-patentibus.

Selaginella Vogelii, Spring Monogr. Lycop. p. 171.

Hab. Fernando Po. Vogel, Barter, n . 1044, 1398 ; Mr. Mann,
n. 149 ; Isle of Nissobe, East Coast of S. Africa, Boivin.

Tinmens in his Species Plantarum enumerated twenty-four
species of Lycopodium. The Genus was subsequently pro-
perly divided into two, Lycopodium and Selaginella , and the
number was increased by Spring, about 20 years ago, to 101
species of Lycopodium, and 209 of Selaginella. They are
plants of great beauty, the latter genus especially, but noto-
riously difficult to be clearly discriminated and characterized,
and hence with some reason they have been called the “inde-
terminable Lycopodia cecuT Our own Herbarium, would now
add considerably to the number of species we originally con-
tributed to Dr. Spring’s Monograph — on the other hand we
fear that this able author has needlessly multiplied species.
It may be some assistance to future Monographists to give
accurate figures. The present is a most lovely plant and ap-
parently common in Fernando Po, and as far as we know is
only found in that island, and in one spot off the East Coast
of Africa.

Tab. LXXXVI. Caudex, stipes, and portion of a pri-
mary branch of Selaginella Vogelii, Spring ; — natural size.
Fig. 1. Upper side of leaves and stipules \ f. 2. Under side
of ditto ; f. 3. Portion of a fertile spike or amentum ; f 4.
Bractea and capsule, and f. 5 . Capsule ; all magnified.

Cent 2. T, 86.

Tab. -LX-XItfH -

Pa^Tia.mj.

TAB. LXXXVII.

Gymnopteris (Leptochieus) PANDURIFOLIA, Hook.

Caudice repente crassitie pennse anserinae copiose squamoso
subtus valde radicante, stipitibus approximate robustia
squamis fuscis squarrosia ; frondium sterilium stipite semi-
pedali, lamina subpedali membranacea siccitate atro-viridi
late ovato-oblonga panduriformi acuta, basi cordata rotun-
data lobata pennivenia, venis primariis flexuosis, reliquis
omnibus reticulatis angulatim areolatis, areolis venulis
clavatis ramosis appendiculatis ; frondium fertilium stipite
pedali, lamina quadriunciali lineari-subpanduriformi.

Hab. Mount Guayrapurima, near Tarapota, Eastern Peru,
R. Spruce, n. 4741.

This would fall into that group of Gymnopteris with simple
fronds, which has been distinguished by some authors as a
Genus under the name of Leptocliilus , but for which I can
detect no valid character. The present, however, is quite
distinct from any described species.

Tab. LXXXVII. Fertile and barren fronds of Gijmnop-
teris panduriformis, Hook; natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a
sterile frond, to show the venation ; magnified, f. 2. Portion
of the fertile frond ; magnified.

Cent. 2. t, 87.

Tdh.ixxxvn

-Hitch, dei.et HxtL

Ta3njjm,mj

TAB. LXXXVIII.

Acrostichum: (Poecilopteris) VIRENS, Wall
Var. minus, fuscatum.

Caudice crasso horizontali, stipitibus approximatis spithamafig
et ultra stramineis inferne sparse squamosis, frondibus 1-2
pedalibus pinnatis ; pinnis sterilium 9 ad 20 subsessilibus
oblongo-lanceolatis subduplicato-serratis coriaceo-membi’a-
naceis stepissime laxte-virentibus, venis primariis pinnatis
secundariis transversis arcuatis angulato-flexuosis, areolis
saspe appendiculatis, costularibus majoribus inappendicula-
tis ; fertilium pinnis linearibus.

Acrostichum virens, Wall. Cat. n. 1033, Hook, et Grev Ic
Fil. Tab. 221.

Campium virens, Pr. Tent. Pt. p. 239, Pr. Epim. Bot. p. 170.
Cyrtogonium virens, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 4, p. 154 .
Var. minus; fuscatum, pinnis minoribus terminali prolifera
costis venisque primariis gracilioribus minus conspicuis.
Hab, Var. minus, fuscatum. India; Concan, Mr. Law. Nil-
ghiri, on stones by the side of streams, Ivoondah’s Corn,
elev. 6000 feet, Mclvor, n. 4.

Notwithstanding the valuable labours of M. Tee and his
excellent writings and figures of the Acrostichacecs, no group
of Terns requires more careful study and revision than this
does. Species are, assuredly, too much multiplied, I fear on
very slight grounds : and the multitude of Genera only serve
to puzzle and perplex the student as well as the practical
Pterodologist himself. By the section or subgenus here
called “ Poecilopte7-is” we mean that of Presl : but unfortu-
nately, Poecilopteris of Presl, adopted by Moore as a Genus,
is Bolbitis of Schott, Campium of Presl, Cyrtogonium of J. Sm.
Heteroneuron of Tee, Acrostichum of the older authors : and
if we look to the figures of the generic characters in Mr.
Moore’s “Index Til.,” Plate VII. we shall find venation of
two very different kinds ; thus allowing a latitude of structure
not tolerated in other Tern genera.

The Acrostichum now figured I quite believe may safely be
referred to the Acrost. virens, Wall., but the strongly marked
primary, parallel veins here give place to others which gradu-
ally merge into an irregular anastomosing as they recede from
the costa ; and, at the margin, is a set of clavate, free veinlets.
The colour and size of the pinna; are extremely variable, and
I fear that several described species will have to be considered
forms of A. virens of Wallich.

Tab. LXXXVIII. Fertile plant of Acrostichum (Poecilopteris)
virens, "Wall ; natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile pinna, show-
ing the venation ; and/. 2, Portion of fertile ditto ; magnified.

Cje:xt. 2. x. 88,

TaJb. LX X'X VI n

Iildxdel.etlitk.

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TAB. LXXXIX.

Lomaria (Plagiogteia) euphlebia, Kze.

Candice crasso lignoso pedali, frondibus in stipitibus elono- f
triquetris basi incrassatis 2-3-verrucosis, 1-2-pedalibus 8
ad apicem pinnatis subchartaceis olivaceo-fuscis ; steri^
lato-ovatis lanceolatis, pinnis patentibus 5-6 uncialibus ■
motiusculis elongato-lanceolatis sessilibus acuminatis suK
serratis basi eglandulosis, venis subdistantibus furcatis
fertilibus angustioribus magis oblongis, pinnis linearibns
elongatis obtusis, mvolucro dentato-lacerato.

Lomaria eupblebia, Kze. in Bot. Zeit. 6, p 521. Schh mi
Supp. p. 61, t. 125. Hook. Sp. Fil. 3, p. 20. ' '

Acrostichum triquetrum, Wall. Cat. n. 25, (in part).

Plagiogyria triquetra, and PI. eupblebia, Met ten. Plagiog. p. i 0 .

Olfersia triquetra, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 234.

Stenochlsena triquetra, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 4 n 14 Q
Pr. Epimel. Bot. p. 165. 5 I • j

Bab. Nepal, Wallich Assam, Griffith^ Khasia, temperate
legion, alt. 6000 feet, Hooker and Thomson. Tsus Sima
island off the coast of Corea, in lat. 34° i, Wilford, n. 874.
Japan, Coring (probably quite in the south).

This belongs to an interesting group of Lomaria, which

dinner Mettem .us has thought worthy to constitute a
distinct Genus to which he has given the name of Plaaio -

gyma. _ My reasons for preserving it in Lomaria are fully
given m the third volume of my Species Filicum, v. 3, p 2
The present one was long known in our Herbaria as the
Lomaria triquetra, from Nepal, of Dr. Wallich’s Mst. Cata-

F^nhv K eDgth l lt WaS fig V red and de scribed as a Japan
m 1 ° Ve qU0 , ted - Lrs. Hooker and Thomson

CxrifflTh -n A bu ap P arentI T of rare occurrence, in Khasia,
snecimenl f T 1 ’ D ° W recentl 7 Mr - Wilford sent home

geogr»;w°rlgr 81ma: “ tbm tt h ° 3 * Tel 7

JK L 1 XX,X . P la,,t of r.o maria (Plagiogyria )

nirinn ,t,L* 26 'li, natura i slze ' fig. I. Portion of a sterile
pbna’t tSf Ve "‘ ,,0n; 2- Portion of « fertile

Cekt. 2. 1. 89.

litcl. del,etlith

JEa3B;plm. ; imp,

TAB. XC.

Acrostichum (Elaphoglossum) DIMORPHUM, Hk et Gr.

Caudice horizontal! vel ascendente crassiusculo radicante
apice imbricatim paleaceo, stipitibus copiosis approximate
4 uncias ad spithauuearn longis subrobustis per tot am lon-
gitudinem sparse paleaceo-squamosis, frondibus sterilibus
3-4-uncialibus oblongo-lanceolatis costatis obtusis coriaceo-
membranaceis margine lobato-pinuatifidis junioribus minute
squamulosis, venis oblique pateutibus, costis subtus deci-
duo-squamulosis, fertilibus paulo minoribus subintegerrimia
vel siuuato-lobulatis dorso (ut videtur) toto capsuliferis.
Acrostichum dimorphum, Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil Tab. 145,
frons fertilis inclusa, (not “ exclusaf Fee). Fee, Hist, des
Acrost. p. 40.

Olfersia dimorpha, Pr. Tent. Pterul. p. 235.

Elaphoglossum dimorphum, Moore.

Hab. St. Helena, on rooks and walls, Genl. Walker, Dr.
Sh liter (who also sent specimens from Madras, but they
were probably taken out thither from St. Helena) ; top of
Diana’s Peak, very common, Dr. Hooker.

This and the subject of our following plate, Acrost. (Ela-
phoglossum) bifurcation are very remarkable plants ; peculiar
to tire island of St. Helena; and, as Dr. Hooker assures
us, growing apart from each other ; and, where he has seen
them, exhibiting no appearance of being forms of one and
the same species. Nevertheless, M. Fee, who does not admit,
in his Histoire des Acrostichees, the A. furcatum, observes
at p. 40. under Acrostichum dimorphum, Hook., “cette espece
est parfaitement tranchde, et la dissimilitude des feudles ne
permettra pas de la meconnaitre. ’ He goes on to say “ l A bi-
furcatum pourrait bien n’ etre autre chose q une forme tres-
divisee de VA. dimorphum .” Presl, having in the interim
established his genus Microstaphyla, with no character except
form, that I can see, to distinguish it from Elaphoglossum (his
Ofersia) ; (“ sorus,” he says “ acrostichoideus”), founded on a
solitary species, the Acrost. bifurcatum, Sw., M. Fee in his
7me “Mem. sur les Fougeres,” adopts the Genus, repeats his
views respecting the oneness of Her. dimorphum and Her.
bifurcatum , and asserts that our figure of the former “ peche
par l’exactitude, la fronde fertile figuree n’appertenant pas
vraisemblablement aux frondes steriles.” He describes and
represents the sori of Microstaphyla as “ nervilluires ,” which
we cannot confirm by our specimens. TV e must refer our
readers to the next following description for further obser-
vations on these two Ferns.

Tab. XC. Fertile and sterile fronds of Acrostichum (Ela-
phoglossum) dimorphum, Hook, and Grev. ; natural size.
Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile, and f. 2. portion of a fertile
frond ; magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 90,

-Fitch, del et lifL

TAB. XCL

ACROSTICHUM (ElAPHOGLOSSUM) BIFURCATUM, Sw.
Glaberrimum nudum, caudice horizontal! vel ascendentecras-
siusculo radicante apice solummodo squamoso, stipitibus
dense ctespitosis gracilibus 3-6-uncialibus s tram i n ep- 1 u sc i s,
frondibus 2-4-uncialibus oblongo-lanceolatis pinnatis, rachi-
bus alatis: pinnis sterilium linearibus remote simplicibus
plerisque furcatis vel bifurcatis costatis sen uninerviis, fer-
tilium pinnis approximate brevioribus cuneatis vel subquad-
ratis apice bi-4-fidis vel bi-trifurcatis.

Acrostichum bifurcatum, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 42. Sclik. Fil. t. 3.

mild. Sp. FI. 5, p. 114.

Osmunda bifurcata, Jacq. Col. t. 20, f. 2.

Olfersia bifurcata, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 234.

Darea furcans, Bory, Voy. de la Coquille , But. p. 269, t. 35,
f. 2. (sterile).

Anogramme parodoxa, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 64.

Gymnograinme bifurcata, Kze in Linncca, 10, p. 496.
Microstaphyla furcata, Pr. Epimel. But. p. 161. Fee, 7 me
Mem. des. Foug. p. 45.

Polybotrya bifurcata, Moore.

Hab. St. Helena, and judging from the quantity of specimens we
have received from different voyagers, it must be infinitely more
abundant than the subject of our last plate, Acr. dimorphum :
on wet rocks and mossy banks, to an altitude of 1000 feet and
more above the level of the sea (Hook. fil). Plukenet records it and
figures it more than 160 years ago as “ Filicula corniculata Insulce
Sanctce Helena,” &c. My Herbarium contains specimens from
the late Sir O. Staunton, collected on the voyage of Lord Mac-
artney’s Embassy to China, from Menzies, Dr. Shuter, Cuming,
n. 420 and 421, Nuttall, Lady Dalhousie, Dr. Lyall, Seeman, J. I).
Hooker, but it is only the latter and Dr. Shuter who appear to
have gathered the A. dimorphum ; also Forster, Lichtenstein, and
Liebold are recorded as having gathered this species.

I have already stated under Acrost. dimorphum (see our last
plate XC.) that M. Fee pronounces that and the present plant to
be one and the same, without even making a variety. “ ISTous
avons sous les yeux di verses modifications qui semblent etablir
le passage de Pune a l’autre par des nuances insensibles.” My
own copious specimens I must confess lead me to an opposite con-
clusion, and I have represented in our figures its extreme forms,
A. hifurcatum has much longer and slenderer stipites, always desti-
tute of scales, as is every part of the plant. It is true that in the
fertile fronds there is a great tendency to become entire, less deeply
divided than in the sterile fronds (as is still more strikingly seen in
an allied group of Acrostichum, Rhipidopteris, Schott), but it goes
no further than our figures show. If A. dimorphum were to break
up into A. bifurcatum, the venation must undergo a considerable
change ; for whereas in A. dimorphum the veins are simple or only
once forked, here they are not uncommonly twice forked, the seg-
ments having the same ramification ; hence the specific name.

Tab. XCI. Sterile and fertile fronds of Acrostichum (Elaphocjlos-
sum) bifurcatum, Sw. ; natural size. Fig. 1. Pinna of a sterile frond,
and f. 2 and 3, Pinna of fertile fronds ; magnified.

Cext. 2. T. 91.

Fed, I Cl.

-Etch. del. etlith. .

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TAB. XCII.

Ackostichtjm (Elaphoglossum) Feei, Bory.

Caudice longe repente et, ut videtur, arboribus scandente
radicoso squamis ovato-acuminatis paleacis, stipitibus sparsis
paleaceis ; frondibus sterilibus sesquiuncialibus oblongo-lan-
ceolatis obtusis grosse subcrenato-lobatis parce squamulosis
in petiolum Eequilongum basi attenuatis costatis pinnatim
venosis, venis remotis infra medium furcatis ante marginem
terminantibus apicibus clavatis ; fertilibus subduplo minori-
bus elliptico-oblongis integerrimis petiolo duplo triplove
brevioribus.

Acrostichum Feei, Bory, in Fee, Acrostich. p. 48, tab. 18, f. 2.
Elaphoglossum Feei, Moore.

Hab. Tropical America, Guadeloupe “ cle Thiouville,” L’Her-
minier, in Herb. Nostr. On Mount Couliabon, Dominica,
Dr. Imray. Quito, Jameson.

This is justly considered, by M. Fee, who has first des-
cribed and figured this pretty Acrostichum, to have the habit
of Polypodium serpens, Sw.

Tab, XCII. Plant of Acrostichum (Elaphoglossum) Feei,
Bory ; natural size. Fig. 1. Sterile frond; /. 2. Portion of
a sterile frond, and_/. 3, portion of a fertile frond ; all more or
less magnified.

Cent. 2. t, 92.

fitck del etlith.

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TAB. XCIII.

Davallia (Dareoide.e) nigrescens, Hook .

Stipite pedali et ultra subrobusto viridi-fusco squamis subu-
latis parvis paleaceo, fronde sesquipedali ad bipedalem late
ovata acuminata submembranacea flaccida glaberrima sicci-
tate nigrescente 3-4-pinnata, pinnis primariis secundariis-
que ovato-lanceolatis longe acuminatis petiolatis ultimis
pinnatifidis, laciniis oblongis ovatisve subsecundis acutis
integerrimis uninerviis, nervis infra apicem terminantibus,
soris ad marginem superiorem pinnularum seu laciniarum
insertis prominentibus, involucro calyciformi (bemispherico)
firmo frondis colore margine integerrimo, racliibus ubique
planiusculis l;c viter marginato-alatis.

Hab. Peak of Fernando Po ; elev. 3000 feet. Gustav. Mann,
n, 448.

It is difficult to say whether this should be referred to
Davallia or to Dicksonia. If considered a Davallia, the por-
tion of the frond to which the involucre is attached, is so
tumid as to represent, on the upper side of the frond, the invo-
lucre on the underside, thus exhibiting a perfectly hemisphe-
rical cup with an entire margin, but sunk in the frond. In
habit and ramification it very much resembles Asplcnium
(Darea) Shuttleworthii of Kunze in Schk. Fil. Suppl. p. 26,
t. 14; but there the sorus and involucre are truly dareoid,
laterally elongated ; here hemispherical.

Tab. XCIII. Fig. 1 . Portion of stipes of Davallia nigres-
cens , Hook.; and f. 2 and 3, apex and primary pinna of a
frond ; natural size. f. 4. Ultimate fertile pinna with sorus ;
magnified, f. 5. Sorus from which the involucre is removed,
showing the long stipitate capsules; more magnified.

C'BNT. 2. t. 93.

p

TAB. XCIY.

Helminthostachys Zeylanica, Hook.

Gen. Char. Helminthostachys, Kaulf. Caupsulat subglo-
boste, glomerate, in valvas duas subfequales deorsum longi-
tudinaliter debiscentes: glomeruli pediceljati apice cristati, in
spicam elongatam pedunculatam cordiformem dense con-
o-esti. Sporoe hyalinse pnrvEe subglobosEC. Llnzoma c /as sum ,

carnosum, repens, fibrosum , fibris carnosis. Stipes simplex ,
elonqatus, apice frondosus, fronde ternata ad basin pedunculi
veriicilluta, foliolis petiolatis pinnatis, pinnis subquinis lauceo-
latis, maqis minusve acuminafis, minute serratis , lateralibus
longe decurreiitibus, terminali libera.

Helminthostachys Zeylanica.

Helminthostachys Zeylanica, Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 47, Presl,
Suppl. Tent. Pterid. p. 59.

Helminthostachys dulcis, Kaulf. En. Fil. 28, t. 1, f- 1 (spike).
Blame , En. Fil. Jav. p. 258, Wall. Cat. n. 54, Hook, et
Greo. En. Fil. in Bot. Miscell. 3, p. 220.

Botrychium Zeylanicum, Sw. Sgn. Fil. p. 172, Willd. Sp. PI.
5, p. 65.

Osmunda Zeylanica, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1519.

Ophioglossum laciniatum, Rumph. Herb. Amb. 6, p. 153, t.
68" f. 3.

Hymenostachys integrifolia, Presl, Suppl. Tent. Pterid. p. 50.
Botryopteris Mexicana, Presl, Rel. Hank. 1, p. 76, t. 12, f. 1.
Hymenostachys crenata, Presl, Suppl. Tent. Pterid. p. 60.
Hab. Malayan and Molucca islands, frequent; Amboyna,
Rumph; Luzon, Cuming, n. 39; Tavoy and Bengal, Wallicli ;
Mergui, Griffith; Java, Blame, Thos. Lobb; Borneo, Thos.
Lobb; Ceylon, Gardner ; Cochin, Mrs. General Walker,
Johnston; New Caledonia, La Billardiere; Guahan, Mari-
anne Islands, Hanke.

Of this remarkable Genus there is but a solitary species known:
notwithstanding that Presl makes three species out of that dis-
tributed by Cuming from Luzon. One of these is the same as
the Botry apsis Mexicana of the same author in the “Reliquiae Hsen-
heanse — afterwards, on finding that it was not a Mexican plant,
and a Hymenostachys, the name was changed to H. crenata. The
figure is a very good representation of the true H. Zeylanica, save
the reticulated venation, which is no doubt occasioned by the
ingenuity of the artist.

Tab. XCIY. Fertile plant of Helminthostachys Zeylanica, Hook. ;
natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a sterile frond, showing the vena-
tion. /. 2. Portion of a fertile spike, with clustres of capsules ;
and /. 3. single cluster of capsules with its crest ; all more or less
magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 91.

Etch, del.etlith.

Panglivunf-

t

TAB. XCY.

Marattia (Edpodium) Kaulfussii, J. Sm.

Fronde “ vasta ” tri-quadripinnata, pinnuhs ultimis oblongis
ovalibusve pinnatifidis obtusis acutisve pinnatis, veins sim-
nlicibus vel furcatis, rachibus jumonbus late interrupte
aktis Boris In quoque lobo solitariis v. brnia, mvolucro

pedicellato.

Marattia Kaulfussii, J. Sm. in Hook.
(note). Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p.
Mart Fil. Bras. p. 153.

Gen Fil. sub. tab 26
118. J. G. Sturm, in

Marattia lajvis, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 31 (excl. syn. omn.)
Marattia alata, Raddi, Fil. Bras. t. 83-84, (excl. syn. omn.)

Eupodium Kaulfussii, J. Sm. in Hook. Journ. But. 4, p. 190,
and in Hook. Gen. Fil t. 118. Pres!, Suppl. Tent. Pterid.
p. 17, De Vriese, Monogr. Maratt. p. 12. Brackenr. Fil. U.
S. Exp. Exped. p. 313.

Hab. Tropical S. America: Brasil, about Rio, Raddi, Bey rich,
Dr. Lyall, J D. Hooker , Martins, Vautier, Riedel and others.
Antioquia, Jervise ; Columbia, Triana, Purdie ; Venezuela,
Fender, n. 3 ; Caraccas, Linden, n. 196.

I fear both the genera and species of the Marattiaceous Ferns
have been needlessly multiplied. The present one, however,
is well distinguished from both Marattia Icevis and M. alata,
with which it had been confounded, and as clearly shown by
Mr. J. Smith, by the presence of a distinct pedicel to the
sorus. There is a further character in the uniformly pinnatifid
ultimate pinnaj : but the entire genus requires to be care-
fully elaborated. I cannot agree with those who consider
this a distinct Genus, on account of the pedicellated fruit.

•Tab. XCV. Fig 1. Inferior portion of a fertile or primary
pinna; and/. 2. apex of the same, of Marattia ( Eupodium )
Kaulfussii, J. Sm. natural size. f. 3. Ultimate sterile pinna
and portion of the rachis, and f. 4. portion of a fertile pinna,
with sori; magnified, f. 5. Sorus, with its pedicel, more
magnified.

Cssi. 2. I. 95.

TAB. XCYI.

Davallia (Leucostegia) PILOSELLA, Hook.

Laxe molliter villosa, caudice repente apice paleaceo, stipiti-
bus gracilibus sparsis patenti-villosis 4-5 uncias longis, fron-
dibus membranaceis oblongis acuminatis, junioribus pinnatis,
pinnis oblongis obtusis serrato-lobatis, adultis subspithamajis
pinnatis, pinnis petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis pro-
funde pinnatifidis, laciniis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis serrato-
pinnatifidis, soris in dentibus vel lobulis laciniarum cuneato-
rodundatis longe villosis, venis pinnatis.

Hab. Tsus Sima, island off the coast of Corea, Wilford, n. 793.

A very delicate Davallia, which I refer to the Leucosteqia-
group, and which may rank near to Davallia membranacea ,
Wall. ; differing in the more contracted frond, the differently
shaped sori, which are here quite marginal on short teeth or
lobes, but especially in the copious long, soft, white, jointed
hairs of the entire frond.

Tab. CXYI. Plant with fertile and sterile frond of Da-
vallia pilosella, Hook.; natural size. Fig. 1. Segment of a
frond with two sori ; magnified, f. 2. single sorus, more mag-
nified ; and f. 3. single sorus, with the involucre removed,
showing the capsules, ditto.

Ceist. 2, t. 95.

Hitch., del etHith..

TAB. XCYII.

POLYBOTRYA LeCHLERIANA, Metteil.

Caudice crasso elongato scandente squamis ovatis acuminatis-
simis fuscis paleaceo, stipitibus f'uscis nitidis approximatis
spithainans 2-3 lineas latis inferne squamosis ; fronde sterili
ampla 3-pedali et ultra submembranacea firma ubique
(rachibusque squamulosis testaceis) villosa late ovata acu-
minata tripinnata, pinnis primariis subsessilibus spitbammis
ad pedalem remotis ovatis acuminatis, secundariis approx-
unatis numerosis, pinnulis ^-unciam lougis copiosis ovato-
oblongis profunde pinnatifidis segmentis oblongis acutius-
cuhs vix subfalcatis univeniis, venis apice clavatis ; fertili
pinnulis linearibus obtusissimis lobato-pinnatifidis subtus
utrinque fere ad marginem soriferis.

Polybotrya Lecbleriana, Metten. in Hohenack. et Lechl. Planter,
Peruviana, n. 2156, et Fil. Leclil. Cliil et Peru, p. 4, t. 1,

ff. 1-5.

Hab. Sbady places, St. Gavan, Peru, Tackier ; Mount Guay-
rapurime, near Tarapota, eastern Peru, sterile frond only,
sent by Mr. Spruce, 1856. Ecuador, sent by Dr. Jameson,
exact locality not stated.

Tbis is tbe finest and most copiously divided of any of tbe
Acrostichaceous group of Ferns. Fragments only were
known to its describer, Dr. Mettenius : but a magnificent
frond bas come into my possession along with Lechler’s own
collection of Ferns of Peru and Chili. Tbe only other speci-
mens known to me are a fine barren frond with caudex,
gathered at Tarapota by Mr. Spruce, and the lower half of a
fertile frond sent from Ecuador by Professor Jameson. Tbe
form of the sterile pinnas and segments a good deal resembles
some Darea among Asplenium, or our Davallia nigrescens ,
represented at our plate XCIII. It will rank near Polyhotrya
apiifolia.

Tab. XCYII. Caudex and base of a sterile frond, and
primary pinna of a fertile frond of Polyhotrya Lechleriana.
Metten.; natural size. Fig. 1 . Pinnule of a sterile frond : f.
2. Fertile pinna seen from above, and/. 3. fertile pinna seen
from beneath ; magnified, f. 4. Transverse section of a fertile
segment ; more magnified.

Ceitt. 2. I. 97.

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Woodsia (Phtsematium) Manchukiensis, Hook.

Glaberrima, caudice perbrevi fibroso ferungineo-squamoso,
stipitibus ciBspitosis 1-3-uncialibus gracilibus rachibusque
albo-stramineis nitidis, frondibus spithanueis tenui-mem-
branaceis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis pinnatis, pinnis
sessilibus unciam et ultra longis remotiusculis oblongis ob-
tusis pinnatifidis, lobis oblique patentibus ovatis lato-oblon-
o’isve mtegris v el smuato— sublobatis unisons, venis m
sino-ulo lobo pinnatis, venulis apice clavatis venula infima
superiore ante apiceni sonfera, mvolucro ( 1 at unie plantse)
majusculo tenui-membranaceo globoso demum apice irregu-
lariter rupto.

Hab. Manchuria, C. Wilford, 1859, n. 1094.

This new species of the Pliysematium-gro-a^ of Woodsia,
quite distinct from any hitherto described, was detected by
Mr. Wilford, in a country whose Botany is deserving of a
careful investigation, Manchuria. The involucres are of so
delicate a texture that the pressure given in drying destroys
their spherical form, and in that state they present the appear-
ance of a thin membrane, but soaking in warm water restores
them to their proper shape.

Tab. XCYIII. Plant with fertile fronds of Woodsia ( Pliy -
sematium) Manchuriensis, Hook.; natural size. Fig. 1. Fer-
tile pinna with sori ; magnified, f. 2. Segment of a fertile
lobe showing the venation and sorus ; f* 3. the same with
the sorus (f% 4.) removed from the lowest superior vein; and
/. 5. Old involucre, burst open ; more highly magnified.

Cent 2, I. 98.

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Cyathea microphylla, Metten.

Caudice 4-pedali (Lechl.) frondibus 2-3-pedalibus stipitatis
(stipitibus racbibusque decidue ferrugineo-tomentosis) ob-
lon°'o-ovatis acunainatis cor in cco-m cn 1 1) 1 ana cei s tiipinnatis
siccitate fusco-olivaceis, pinnis primariis sessilibus horizon-
talibus remotiusculis oblongis acunimatis, secundariis ap-
proximatis oblongis obtusis,pinnulis ovato -oblongis profunde
pinnatifidis, lobis oblongis subcuncatisve obtusissum& mte—
o-errimis univeniis, venis ante apicem evanidis, soris copiosis
dorso venarum basin versus globosis mcmbianaceis ferru-
gineis nitidis demum apice irregulater fissis et in lacinias
3-4 ruptis, receptaculo elevato, capsulis helicogyratis, ra-
cbibus ultimis sepia inis paucis convexis flexuosis ferrugineis
deciduis subtus paleaceis.

Cyatliea microphylla, Metten. in Hohenack. et Lechl. Plant.
Peruv. n. 25 6 U, and in Fil. Lechl. Chil. et Peruv. p. 23.

Hab. Tatanara, eastern side of the Cordilera of Peru, Leak-
ier, in Herb. Nostr. n. 2160.

A very remarkable Cyatheaceous plant, the most, distinct
perhaps of all the group. The underside of the fertile frond
lias quite a ferrugineous cast, from the bairs of the tomentum
of that color, and from the copious capsules, which soon,
from their original spherical form, break into a number of
pieces or scales, and in a measure conceal the real shape of
the small pinnules.

Tab. XCIX. Fig. 1. Base of a sterile frond; and/. 2.
Underside of a primary pinna of a fertile frond of Cyathea
microphylla. Metten. natural size. f. 3. Fertile pinnule with
two sori, magnified, and f. 4. fully formed sorus, and /. 5.
old sorus ; more magnified.

Cent. 2. t. 99.

Tah.XClK.

Yitcli del , e t litb.

TAB. C.

HeMITELIA (AjIPHICOSMIA) PLATYLEPIS, TIook.

Stipite elongato castaneo nitido versus, basin crassitie digitis
lnimani, squamis maximis ovatis nitidissimis acuminatis
atro-fuscis margine pallidioribus suberosis basi s.quamulosis
paleaceis, frondtbus amplissimis subeoriaceis ubique hirsu-
tulis tripmnatis, pinnis primariis inferioribus louge petiolatis
pedalibus sesquipedalibus ovato-oblongis, secundariis sessi-
libus oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis, pinnulis 3-4 lineas
lono-is lineanbus acutis marginibus recurvatis serratis, venis
furcatis ad furcaturam unisoris, racbibus adpresse villosis
ultimis alatis, involucro exacte hemisphmrico membranaceo
maro-ine ereoso-denticulato, receptaculo elevato, capsulis
pilis articulatis intermixtis.

Hab. Near San Carlos, Rio Negro, tributary of the Amazon,
Brazil, R. Spruce, n. 3027.

This is a Hemitelia, according to our views of the Genus,
but would be an Amphicosmia of the late Mr. Gardner,. Lond.
Journ. of Bot. 1, p. 441 ; differing from Hemitelia in its free
venation. The involucre is exactly the same as in our H. Host-
manni and H. Parheri, described in the “ Species Filicum,” and
fio-ured in the 7th volume of our “ leones Plantarum.” It is
probably nearly allied to Cyatlica multifiora ol Sir J. E. Smith,
which has the “ rachis winged,” and which Gardner refers to
Amphicosmia : but I have never seen an authentic specimen,
which I believe only exists in the Banksian Herbarium, and
which is stated to be a native of Jamaica. In general the
specimens we receive of these gigantic Ferns are too imperfect
for accurate description, even the stipes is often neglected,
which not unfrequently affords good characters in the pecu-
liarities of its clothing especially, as is remarkably the case
in the species now under consideration ; and, the involucre
being very fragile, is too frequently injured, and leads one
astray in regard to the Genus.

Tab. C. Fig. 1. Base of the stipes of Hemitelia (Amphi-
cosmiu) platylepis , IIoolc., with its remarkable large scales
and the squamules at their point of insertion ; and f 2.
portions of a primary pinna of a fertile frond ; natural size,
f. 3. Under side of a barren pinnule, with a portion of the
winged rachis; magnified, f. 5. Portion of a fertile pinnule,
with a sorus; f. 6. involucre and receptacle from which
most of the capsules have fallen ; and f. 7. capsules with
accompanying hairs ; more magnified.

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Kunze G. Die Farrnkrauter in Kolorirten Abbildungen oder Supplement zu
Schkuhr’s Farrnkriiuter. 4to. Fine coloured plates of Ferns.

Leipzig*, 1840, &c.

T a TsrriQTioRFF ET Fischer. Plantes recueillRs pendant le voyage des Russes
autour du monde. Premidre partie. Folio. Plates, 8s. lubingoe, 1810.

* * This First Part contains Ferns only.

Liebmann, F. Mexicos Bregner, en systematisk, cntisk, plantegeographisk
^ieb 11 undersogelse, etc. (Ferns of Mexico). 4to. 8s. Kjobenhavn, 1849.

Imui, J- *• O— “ d r i "!” t 1W

Lowe fi't, Esfiire. Per.,, British a.d Eaotic. A few odd Part, and

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Martens M. & Galeott 1 ) H.

METTEsiLf G. Pl Kto liechleria.se Chito.se, ac Perureante.

B3T S wifi CbSL. of the

Moore, Thomas. Index F , o g • 0 f p erns with Synonyms,

Genera, and an Enumerate of the Species ot 1 arg ^ ^

References, etc Parts I, IL, HI, i V “ London , 1859 etc.

““ H»ih»k ^ o”fW,h_Fer.,, a f id» »d

2s. 6d. - ill . oa Outs Is. - ■ I860.

Moore, T.

British and Exotic,
econd-hand - .

Memoire sur les Fougeres du Mexique, &c.

Bruxelles, 1814.

Moore, T.

CUlt British Ferns and their Allies, &c.

Moore, T. Nature-printed Ferns ; a few odd parts of the fine Royal Folio
edition at 4s 6d. each. J 1

Moore, T. Handbook of BritishFerns, Ac. Third Edition. 5s 1857
Newman, E. History of British Ferns, with numerous Illustrations — .cornea
of all the three Editions, from 8s. to 17s. ’

Patison, Jane M. Gleanings among- the British Ferns; illustrated hv
Preserved Specimens of the Ferns themselves. Handsomely bound
cloth, gilt, 10s. 6d. London 1858^

Plukenet, L. Phytographia, etc. Several of the volumes which contain
(among- others) many excellent Figures of Ferns. 7s. ner volume

Small folio and 4to. London 1691 et

Plumier, C. Descriptions des Plantes de l’Amerique. Folio’. £1 ’lOs’

V The first 50 of these fine Plates are Ferns. Iau& ’ 1693 -
Plumier, C. Traite des Fougeres de l’Amerique. Numerous fine plates
Royal folio. Paris 1705'

Cif Although this copy is somewhat stained in places, vet it possesses
considerable interest, Born the fact of its having formerly helono- e d to Sir
Hans Smane’s Library. There is also a mass of Manuscript notes verv
neatly written, apparently m the handwriting of its former possessor’
Presl, C . B. Ptendographise Tentamen, Ac. 12 plates, sewed, 9s.' 6d or
halt-calf, lettered, 15s. - - - _ _ _ 1836

Presl, C. B Epimeliae Botanicae cum tahulis xv lithographicis (All
Ferns). 4to. 18s. - - _ - . . . p ra j.. qg^gj^

Sadler, J. De Filicibus Hungarian, Transylvaniae, Croatiae, &c. Sewed 3s.

Salisbury, R. A. On the Germination of Lycopodium denticulatum. Is 6d
4to. plate - - - _ „ _ From Linn Tran

Schlechtendal, D. F. L. Adumbrationes Plantarum. Adumbratio Fili-
cum, etc 4to. Plates. 2s. each Part - Berlin

Schott H. Genera Filicum. Pktes, 4to. - - Vienna, 1834, &c.

Smith J. Enumeration of the Filices of the Isthmus of Panama. Royal
4-to. 3s. 1858

Smith John. A Catalogue of Ferns cultivated in the Public and Private
Collections of Great Britain, with Special Reference to those now grow-
mg tn the Royal Botanical Gardens ot Kew, with their Generic Cbarac-
tf 'lt’ 1 ative Countries, Synonyms, and Reference to Figures. Cloth,

Sprengel, K. Introduction to Cryptogamous Plants, 2s. Gd^or °cold. 8 5s".

Spring, A. Monographie de la Famille des Lycopodiacees. dto^lSsb^ete’
Buminski. Leszczyc-Suminski zur Entwickelungs-Geschichte der Farrn-
krauter (Ferns). 4to. Fine plates, 7s. 6d. - - Berlin 1848

Suminski. Another copy of the same, on fine paper, with the ’ plates
Coloured. 12s. - - - . . . Berlin 1848

Swartz. Synopsis lilicum, earum Genera et Species systematice compl’ectens
adjectis Lycopodraeis et descriptionibus novarum et variorum specierum’

&c. Plates, 12s. Ldpo; 1806

Swartz. Another handsomely bound copy, interleaved 15s. Killice’ 1806.

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Weber und Mohr. Kryptogamische Gewachse, Filices, &c. 24mo. Cold,
plates, 6s. od. Same with plain plates, 4s. 6d. - - Kiel 1807

ounGjE. The Ferns of Wales; illustrated by carefully-preserved specimens
of Thirty-four Species. Large 4to. Handsomely bound, cloth, gilt,

% - - - - Neath, 1856.

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