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A little Fern, forming a loose mass. Rhizome gracile, long-creeping, 

 rooting; scales denser at the base of the stipe, linear-subnlKte to subulate, 

 long-aciiminate, thin, nigro-castaneous, with fine and distinct areoles. Fnin<l 

 loosely placed on the rhizome, spathulate to linear-spathulate, obtuse, gradually 

 attenuated below and very angustately decurrent to a narrow stipe, entire 

 or sometimes subrepand, sometimes more or Ifss irregular in form, attain- 

 ing about 10^ cm. long including the stipe, 3-12 mm. wide, coriaceo-mem- 

 branaceous, herbaceous in recent, glabrous on both sides; midrib narrow, 

 prominent above ; veins hidden, the areoUe oblong to elongately oblong, 

 usually hexagonal, large in pro[)ortion, without any free veinlet, Sori in 

 the upper portion of the frond, oblique, arranged nearer to the midrib than 

 to the margin, oblong-linear or oblong, straight or somewhat curved outwards, 

 1-6 on each side. Sporangia : the pedicel longer than the globose case. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-sajiran. 



Hah. Prov. Kaga : Yumoto on Mt. Hakusan {R. Yatahe and J. Matsu- 

 mural herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tuky.>, Aug. 6, 1881); Prov. To<a : 

 Suginokawa {T. Malcino\ Nov. 1885), Hayama-go {T. Maldno\ 1892); 

 Prov. Iyo : Nishinokawa {K. Watanabel Sej)! 25, 1891); Prov. Idzu : Mt. 

 Amagi (*S'. Matsiodal Dec. 29, 1893; Z. HoriijeX ]\Liy 14, 1905); Prov. 

 Kii: Mt. Koya {TI. Nakanishihi\ Aug. 1905); Prov. Satsuma : Isl. Yaku- 

 shima (Z7. Fauriel July 1900). 



Polypodium japonicum (Franch. et Sav.) Makino. 



Polypodiuiii vulgare var. japonicum Franch, et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. 

 II. (1879) p. 244; Matsum. Catal. Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 

 (1886) p. 255, Shokubutsu Mei-i (1895) p. 230, et Ind. PI. Jap. I. (1904) 

 p. 340. 



Polypodhtm Fauriei Christ In Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV. (1896) p. 672, 

 et Frank, d. Erde (1897) p. 83, in nota ; Diels in Engl, et Prantl, Nat. 

 Pfl.-Fam. I. 4, p. 312; Matsum. Ind. PI. Jap. I. p. 334. 



Nom. Jap. Ofthaguji-denda, Oshagoji-denda. 



Hah. Japan, widely distributed. 



The pecuHarity of this fern is the circinate state of the frond in drying. 



Sciaphila (Eusciaphila) tosaensis Makino sp. nov. 

 A little monoecious leafless perennial, subhyaline, glabrous, purplish, 

 about 5-10 cm. high. Rhizome subterranean, narrow, laxly with lato- 



