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rigid, erect, covered with clavate glands, lacine small 
oblong spathulate, each furnished with a clavate venule, 
which is sporangiferous on the apex. Sori round, solitary 
on each lacine. 
Type. Adenophorus tripinnatifidus, Gaud. 
Illust. Hook. and Grev., t. 174, 175, 176 (sub. Adeno- 
phorus), Fée Gen. Fil., t. 10, A, fig. 1. 
Oxzs.—Gaudichaud, in Freycinet's Voyage, was the first 
to describe this genus, the speciality being the peculiar 
rigid habit and glandulose nature of the fronds. But 
owing to the sori not differing in character from Polypo- 
diwm, as defined by early authors, has led it to be placed 
by Sir W. Hooker, and other authors, under that genus; 
but I agree with Fée in retaining it as a distinct genus. 
Three species are described; but all being natives of the. 
Sandwich Islands, it is therefore probable that they may 
only be different states of one species. 
Sp. A. hymenophylloides (Kaulf.) ; A. tamarisci (Kaulf.) ; 
A. tripinnatifidus (Gaud.) 
94.—QLYPHOTÆNIUM, J. Sm. (1854). 
Ctenopteris (Glyphotenium) J. Sm. Bot. Voy. of Herald ; 
Polypodiwm Hook. Sp. Fil. Goniopteris sp. Moore Ind. Fil. 
Vernation sarmentose, short. Fronds fasciculate, linear, 
sub-entire, sinuose repand, pendulous, 6 inches to 1j feet 
long, 1 inch wide, villose, stipes slender, cylindrical. Veins 
pinnate, forked, and arcuate, venules unequally anasto- 
mosing, the superior ones free. Receptacles punctiform, 
immersed on free veinlets, and terminal Sori sub. 
biserial or irregular. 
Type. Glyphotenium crispatum, J. Sm. 
