672 FILICES, 
109. Polypodium vulgare, Linn.; Hook. Sp. Fil. iv. p. 205; Hook. et Bak. 
Syn. Fil. p. 334; Eaton, Ferns N. Am. i. p. 287, t. 31. figg. 1-3. 
CanapDa southward.—SovutH Mexico, Oaxaca 5000 feet (Galeotti, 6552).—Widely 
spread in the Nortuern HEMISPHERE, and reappearing in SoutH AFRIcA and in 
KERGUELEN Istanp. Hb. Kew. 
Species dubie. 
Polypodium ciliatum, Presl, Relig. Henk. i. p. 20. 
Phegopteris blanda, Fée, 8° Mém. Foug. p. 91. 
Phegopteris melanorrhachis, Fée, 8° Mém. Foug. p. 91. 
[Polypodium irregulare, Presl, Relig. Henk. t. 4, a native of Java, and Phegopteris 
epieroides, Fée, 5° Mém. p. 248, a native of Cuba, have been erroneously recorded as 
Mexican. | 
Tribe XII. GRAMMITIDEZ. 
There are eleven genera of this Tribe, all of which are represented within our limits 
except Jamesonia, an Andine monotype; Brainea, an Asiatic monotype; and Drymo- 
glossum, an Asiatic genus of three or four species. 
32. NOTHOLAENA. 
Notholena, R. Br.; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. pp. 370 et 514 (Nothochlena), t. 6. fig. 50. 
About thirty-five species, generally diffused in warm countries, but most numerous in 
America, and especially characteristic of the Texano-Mexican region. 
1. Notholena (Cincinalis) affinis, Hook. Sp. Fil. v. p. 109; Hook. et Bak. 
Syn. Fil. p. 378. 
Notholena pulveracea, Klotzsch in Linnea, xx. p. 417, excl. synon. 
Cheilanthes affinis, Mett. Cheil. und Aspl. p. 19. 
Aleuritopteris pulveracea, Fée, 9° Mém. Foug. p. 85. 
Aleuritopteris affinis, Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 121. . 
MExico, without locality (Aschenborn) ; GuaTEMALa, Motagua valley (Godman &. 
Salvin). Hb. Kew. 
2. Notholena aschenborniana, Klotzsch ; Hook. Sp. Fil. v. p. 117, t. 2878; 
Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 371; Eaton in Proc. Am. Acad. xviii. p. 184. 
Cheilanthes aschenborniana, Mett. Cheil. und Aspl. p. 21; Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 124. 
Notholena bipinnata, Liebm. Mexicos Bregner, p. 62. 
Notholena galeottii, Fée, Gen. Fil. 159. 
Arizona; Texas.—NortH Mexico, Lerios in the high mountains east of Saltillo, 
Chihuahua, and at Monterey, Nuevo Leon (Palmer) ; SovrH Mexico, Zimapan (Coulter, 
1679), Oaxaca 8000 feet (Galeotti, 6565). Hb. Kew. 
