CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Polypodium, 
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[>a 
aoe te wings long spear-shaped, acute, distant; . 
leat Scent pointed. 
Bolt, 46—Fl. dan. 401-Pluk. 180.5. 
rom 4 to 7 inches high. Stem red, bare for about 2 inches 
at the base ; smooth, slender, brittle. Leafs more than twice 
as long as they are broad. In habit approaches nearly to the P. 
theticum, but it is not distinctly doubly winged like that plant, 
nor are the lobes of the leafits regularly serrated at the edges, as 
at. 
Brittle Polypody. . Dry stony places, Manrssiees in Wales. 
Walls N 
Mr. Grirriru about Buxton. ENsON. Near 
Hyde, Glocestershire. Mr. Baxer. Road po "unt pelt: to 
Worms ash near Bromsgrove. Miss Reap. ] P, June—Sept. 
Var. 2. Primary wings spear-shaped, acute ; leafits cnt 
Bolt, 27-Barr, 432-F, B. iii. 741. 2-Seguier. 1. 1. 
From 2 to 6 inches high. Svem red, bare for 3 to 1} inch 
from rai base ; smooth, brittle, but ee slender than in the pre- 
ceding. Lea fits not equal in length to twice the breadth. 
Moontains ir in North Wales, Yorkshire and the other Nor- 
pens counties. [Near Snowdon on the rocks of Clogwyn da yr 
Arddi. Mr, Grirriru.] 
eis 3. Primary peek spear-shaped, blunt. | 
About 3 or4 inches high. Stem red, bare for $ to 1 inch 
from the base ; smooth, brittle, slender 
This has a ears rescnstia to the P. dentatum, but dif- 
fers from that in the colour of the stem, in being doubly winged, 
and in he wan of fine teeth at the ends of the lobes, 
fith of Garn favoured me with specimens of all these 
3 vaticties ‘gihered from the same root, and I have seen a single 
specimen uniting the characters of ches 2 former. 
P. Primary wings spear-shaped, blunt; leafits of the 
lower pair of wings mostly 3- cleft: stem bordered, 
E. bot. 163. 
eor 4 inches high. Stem brown. green, slender, bare 
for 1 a or more at the base; edged with a narrow border on 
each side. — —_ oe St leafits som the middle 
segments sometim 
seems attached to the foliage f in one point ag and readily sepa- 
Tates from it. Not having yet adopted the new genus Cyathea, 
we lament that we could not use the trivial name given to this 
tri‘fidum, 
we 
