Liberia ^4- 



wroni^. E. sr/crni/f/ia is a South African grass of dry 

 localities. 



Oryza sativa, A. : The " Rice," cultivated in Liberia, according to 

 Vogel. 



Olyra latifolia, Z. : an erect or straggling bamboo-like grass, 4—15 

 ft. high, with netted-veined leaves, 4 — 7 in. by i — 3 in., and 

 panicles of 1 -flowered unisexual spikelets, the male and 

 female of different shape, the female larger, ovoid, caudate, the 

 " fruit " white and shining ; Kakatown, W'/iytc ! 



Oxytenanthera sp. — a species of Bambuseae : a bamboo, possibly in- 

 troduced, but growing wild seemingly in many districts near 

 the coast; Sir II. II. Joliuston (from photographs). 



FILICES 



Pteridium aquilinum, KioitJi : the " Bracken," an almost cosmojjolitan 



fern, Liberia, M illcii, 200 ! 

 Polypodium phymatoides, L. : an epiphytic fern with far-creeping 



rhizome, more or less dissected fleshy coriaceous leaves, up to 



3 ft. long, and immersed sori : Monrovia and Sino Basin, ]Vhyte\ 

 Gleichenia dichotoma, ]Villd. : a climbing or rambling fern with 



scattered repeatedly dichotomous leaves, often gregarious ; 



Kakatown, Whytc ! ; without precise locality, Milieu ! 



Platycerium sethiopicum, Hook. : an epiphytic fern, the well-known 



" Stag's-horn." 



LYCOPODIACE.^^: 



Lycopodium cernuum, L. : an erect shrublet, much branched and re- 

 sembling a miniature tree with minute subulate leaves and 

 nodding spikes of sporophylles at the ends of the branchlets ; 

 Kakatown, ]\liYtc\ ; 70 miles up the St. Paul's River, Rijuoldsl 



selaginellace.f: 



Selaginella vogelii, Spri)ig. : much branched, to over 2 ft. high, 

 ascending frrjm a creeping rhizome, the tips often growing out 

 into whip-like shoots up to 9 in. long, the whole plant more or 

 less shining; Sino Basin, JV/iytcl 



S. scandens, Sj^riug. : an often very long climber, rooting from the 

 glabrous stems, primar)' branches simply branched except near 

 the base, branchlets ending with spikes (up to f in. long) of 

 sporophylles ; Cape Palmas, Schocitlein \ Sino Basin, Whyte\ 



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