FILICES. 681 
37. VITTARIA. 
Vittaria, Smith; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 395, et ed. 2, p. 517, t. 6. fig. 56: 
An almost exclusively tropical genus of about a dozen species, generally spread. 
1. Vittaria (Teeniopsis) lineata, Swartz; Hook. Sp. Fil. v. p. 180; Hook. et 
Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 396; Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 114; Eaton, Ferns N. Am. i. 
— ~—p. 289, t. 38. fige. 4-8. 
Vitiaria graminifolia, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 192; Liebm. Mexicos Bregner, p. 79; Fourn. loc. cit. 
(species propria). 
Vittaria angustifrons, Mich. Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. p. 261. 
Teniopsis lineata, J. Sm.in Hook. Journ. Bot. iv. 1842, p. 67. 
Tenitis linearis, Mart. et Gal. Foug. Mex. p. 44. 
Vitiaria filifolia, Fée, Vittar. p. 20, t. 3. fig. 6; Hook. Sp. Fil. v. p. 182. 
Fioripa.—Soutn Mexico, Zacuapan (Leibold), Mirador and Llano Verde (Galeotti, 
6337, 6418), Santa Afia region of Orizaba (Bourgeau, 3069), Chiapas (Ghiesbreght, 
255, 270); GuateMaLa, Volcan de Fuego (Godman & Salvin), Chilion near Mazate- 
nango (bernoulli, 439).—West Inpies to Perv and Brazi.; also in the Old World, 
from the Himauayas and Japan to the Matay ARCHIPELAGO and SovTHERN AFRICA. 
Hb. Kew. 
2. Vittaria (Teniopsis) scabrida, Klotzsch. ; Hook. Sp. Fil. v. p. 182; Hook. 
et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 395. 
Souta Mexico (Schiede, ex Hooker).—Gutana; Brazit. 
We have not seen any Mexican specimens of this species, 
38. TAINITIS. 
Tenitis, Swartz; Hook. et Bak. Syn. Fil. p. 396, t. 6. fig. 57. 
A tropical genus of five species, as limited in the ‘Synopsis Filicum,’ restricted, as 
far as known, to America, Polynesia, and Asia. 
1. Tenitis angustifolia, R. Br.; Hook. Sp. Fil. v. p. 187; Hook. et Bak. Syn. 
Fil. p. 396. 
_ Pteropsis angustifolia, Desv. ; Fée, Vittar. p. 24, non Fourn. Mex. Pl. Enum. i. p. 86. 
Vittaria costata, Kunze, Anal. Pterid. p. 29, t. 18. fig. 2; Fourn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xix. 
p. 258. 
_ GuatemaLa, Yzabal (Godman & Salvin), Mazatenango (Bernoulli, 36); Nicaragua, 
Chontales (Tate, 67; Lévy, 1418); Panama, Lion Hill (8. Hayes, 366).—West Inprzs 
to Brazit and in the GaLapacos. Hb. Kew. 
By some unaccountable error Fournier has confused the synonymy of this plant and 
the wholly different Polypodium angustum. 
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