

TAB. Cll. 



NEPHRODIUM GOLDIANUM 



FILICES.— Gyrat/e. Br. 



Polypodiace^. Kaulf. Filices verse. Wxlld^ Spreng 







Gen. Char. 



NEPHRODIUM, Br. NEPHRODII species, Mich. ASPIDII species, Sw 



Sori rotundi, dorsales 



Involucrum reniforme, sinu affixum, marginibus liberis. Br 



Nephrodium Goldianum; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis profunde pinnatifidis breviter petiolatis, laci- 



niis oblongis acutiusculis subfalcatis, mucronato-serratis, soris centralibus intra marginem et 

 costam. 

 Aspidium Goldianum. Hooker in Goldies Acc. of rare Canad. Pl. in Edin. Phil. Journ. v. 6. 

 p. 333. 



Hab. America Septentrionali. In Canada praecipue. D. Goldie. D. Holmes. D a Percival. 

 D. Sheppard. Prope Novam Eboracensem. Torrey. 



Stipes pedalis, erectus, semiteres, hinc sulcatus, pallide fuscus, nitidus, squamis deciduis paleaceus. 



Frons pedalis ad sesquipedalem et forsitan ultra, circumscriptione ovato-oblonga, pinnata, pinnis remotiusculis 



breviter petiolatis, inferioribus praecipue, lanceolato-acuminatis, profunde pinnatifidis, laciniis subuncialibus, 

 oblongis, acutiusculis, paululum falcatis, serratis, serraturis obtusis, mucrone vel spinula minutissima ter- 

 minatis. Color totius frondis, statu sicco, flavo-virescens, subtus pallidior. Sori in lineis duabus dispositi, 



singula costam intra et marginem quasi intermedia, disp 

 fundo affixum. 



Involucrum rotundato-reniforme 



pro 





Capsulce longe pedicellatse, fuscae. 



Semina subangulata, reniformi-rotundata, fusco-flavescentia, limbo pallidiore cincta 



Fig. 1. Lacinia pinnse cum soris. f. 2. Capsulae. f. 3. Semina: — magn. auct. 



That this species must have been known to the writers on American Botany, I cannot for 

 moment doubt : but if it be included in any of their Floras, it is 



confounded with some other 



species, perhaps with Nephrodium cristatum by Michaux, or with N Filix Mas by Pursh, judging 

 from a specimen sent me by Professor Torrey from New York ; and it is very certain that both these 

 authors consider their respective plants to be different from those of the same name in Europe. 



The present is indeed a very handsome and a very decidedly marked species, coming, perhaps, 

 nearest to the North American Nephrodium marginale, in which, as the name implies, the fructifica- 

 tions are altogether marginal. 



