442 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF ERIOCAULON. 
Spreng. Syst. 4. p. 196. 
Alsophila multiflora, Presl, Tent. p. 61.—J. Sm. MSS. 
This appears to be a very rare fern; neither: occurring in 
the Herbarium of Sir William Hooker, nor in that of Mr. 
Smith. The only specimen I have seen of it is that which 
exists in the Herbarium of the British Museum. 
Tab. XII. Fig. 1. Portion of a fertile pinna. F. 2, 
Segment of do. F.3,Sorus. F. 4, Sporangium;  magni- 
fied. 
Kew, June 22nd., 1842. 
Description of a new species of ER10cAvLON, Sect. Peepalan- ` 
thus, from Brazil, by GEoReE Garpner, F. L. S. 
Professor of Botany and Natural History in the Andersonian 
University, Glasgow. 
(With a Plate, Tab. XIII.) 
EnmiocavuLoN (Pepalanthus) ARENARIUM. 
Dioicum, rhizomate repente, caulibus simplicibus nudis, foliis 
radicalibus linearibus obtusis trinerviis pilosis ciliatis, 
pedunculis persistentibus glanduloso-pilosis vaginis fere ad 
basin fissis acutis pilosiusculis. 
Han. In campis excelsis arenosis in Districtu Adamantum, 
inciz Minarum Generalium. 
Planta mascula: Rhizoma breve, repens, dense foliosum. 
Caules (rami) folis radicalibus duplo triplove longiores, 
simplices, erecti, nudi, pilosi, Folia cæspitosa, rigida, 
recurva, pilosa, ciliata, linearia, obtusa, trinervia, 5 lin. 
circiter longa, basi villis longis instructa, Pedunculi ter- 
minales, circiter 10, umbellati, dense glanduloso- pilosi, 
pollicares. Vaginæ fere ad basin fisse, apice integre. 
Capitula hemispherica, albo-lanata; bractee involucrantes 
steriles, oblonge, obtuse, margine ad apicem ciliate ; 
bracteæ flores stipantes oblonge, obtusz, apicem versus 
pilis albis rigidis dense ciliate. Receptaculum glabrum. 
Flores pedicellati : sepala exteriora oblonga obtusa, apice 
