Mi c M uL IM E E C E 
TAB. CLXXXVII. 
VITTARIA PLANTAGINEA. 
FILICES.—GvnATx. Br.  PorvPoprACEZX. Kaulf. | Frrrczs vere. Willd. 
Gr. Cnan. PITTARLA, Smith. | Sori solitarii, continui, lineares, submarginales, immersi. 
Indusium geminatum, superficiale. 
VrrTARIA plantasinea; frondibus erectis lineari-lanceolatis, soris solitariis marginalibus in parte 
media frondis. /Z'i//d. : 
Vittaria plantaginea. Bory, F1. v. 2. p.325. JF'illd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 406. Spreng. Syst. leget. 
v. 4. p. 67. 
Has. In insula Borbonia. Bory. 
Caudex repens, crassitie pennse anserinse, setis vel paleis subulatis, scariosis, nitidis, fuscis, dense obtectus, hic 
illic radicosus, fibris ferrugineo-tomentosis. 
Frons spithamsea fere pedalis, erecta, coriaceo-membranacea, lineari-lanceolata, paululum falcata, integerrima, 
glabra, basi longe attenuata, superne acuminata, obscure costata, enervosa, 4—5 lineas lata. 
Sor? solitarii, marginales, continui in partem superiorem frondis, sed non ad apicem attingentes, 4—5 uncias 
longi. 
Involucrum duplex, exterius crassiusculum. 
Capsule brevi-pedicellate, sphsericee, annulo fere completo cincte. Inter has capsulas sunt pili plurimi articulati, 
articulo ultimo claviformi truncato. 
Semina oblongo-reniformia, pellucida, fere albida. 
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Fig. 1. Portio frondis. f.2. Involucri portio. f.3. Capsule, cum filamentis clavatis. f.4. Semina —Iagn. auct. 
This Z'ittaria we are induced to give as the true plantaginea of Bory de St. Vincent, having been 
favoured with original specimens of that author by Professor Mertens of Bremen, and which are 
here figured. But it must be confessed, that the distinguishing marks of this and other Z'ittarie 
are but imperfectly defined: and even with regard to the present, it seems scarcely if at all different, 
on the one hand, from what we have received from botanists of high authority as Z". elongata; and 
on the other, from Z. ensifolia of Swartz. 
