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Nodi inferiores glabri, superiores (ad ramorum ortum) pilos paucos breves gerentes. Folia longe vaginantia, 

 plana, anguste linearia, culmum longitudine cequantia, margine serrulata scabra. Paniculee compacte. Spicce 

 duae pedunculum bractea spathacea vaginatum terminantes. Rachis articulata, glabra: nodi breviter ac 

 parce pilosi. Spicula gemmae, glabrae ; altera pedicellata neutra, lanceolata, striata, mutica; altera sessilis, 

 hermaphrodita, uniflora, glumis striatis, glumella exteriore aristata ; arista flosculum subaequans, medio geni- 

 culata, inferne tortilis. 



We have not been able to refer this species to any described one. It approaches ranch to A. hirtus of 

 the South of Europe, but differs from that and from almost every hitherto known species of the genus, by 

 the nearly total absence of hairs on the rachis ; these, indeed, are so short and so few as to leave some doubts 

 if it ought to be retained in Andropogon, although agreeing well in other points with the reformed ch ai U fl tW 

 as given by Trinius. 



1. Heteropogon glaber. Pers. — Andropogon Allionii. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. p. 904. 



Oiid. XLVII. LYCOPODINE^;. Sw. 



1. Lycopodium Phkgmaria. Linn. 



2. Lycopodium cernuum. Linn. 



1. Psilotum triquetrum. Sw.— Bernhardia dichotoma. MM— Lycopodium nudum. 

 Linn. 



2. Psilotum complanatum. Sw. — Bernhardia complanata. Willd. 



Ord. XLVIII. OPHIOGLOSSE^l. Br. 

 1. Ophioglossum pendulum. Willd. 



One of the two specimens in the Collection has a very broad frond, in some parts nearly three inches in 

 diameter, three or four times divided in a dichotomous manner. 



Ord. XLIX. MARATTIACEtE. Bory. 

 1. Angiopteris evecta. Hoffm.—Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 36.— Polypodium evectum. 

 " Forst. Prodr. n. 438." 



This plant is used by the natives for food in years of scarcity. 



Ord. L. OSMUNDACEiE. Br. 

 1. Schizaea dichotoma. Willd.— Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 17. 



1. Lygodium scandens. Gaud.— Hydroglossum scandens. Willd.— Ugena microphylla. 

 Cav. Ic. v. 6. p. 76. t. 595. / 2. 



Ord. LI. GLEICHENIACE^. Br. 

 1. Gleichenia Hermanni. Br.— Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 14.— Mertensia dkhotwna. 

 Willd. — Polypodium dichotomum. Thunb. 



LIE POLYPODIACE^. Kaulf. 

 1. Acrostichum aureum. Sw. 

 1. Gymnogramma Calomelanos. Kaulf.— Acrostichum Calomelanos. Linn. Willd. 



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