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ation in the width of the sterile part of the fertile pinnae. The 
plants described under Blechnum doodioides therefore without 
doubt represent abnormal forms of SS. Spicant, which Hooker* 
admits is ‘‘the only Lomarioid plant im so northern a latitude’’: 
the general shape, the cutting, and the dark stipes support this 
supposition. JL. crenata Pres] (type from Vancouver Island) is 
described as differing from SS. Spicant in being larger, and in 
having acute, crenate pinnae, the lower ones deflexed and ear- 
shaped. These characters are found in five sheets from Wash- 
ington and Oregon (Howell’s collections of 1876, 1879, and 1880 
and in Flett’s no. 1928); Flett’s collecting note says: “this form 
is rare and seems to be confined to the largest plants in the 
dense, mossy woods.’ The name L. Spicant, var. serratus Wall. 
@Ppears on some of these sheets. No further record of this name 
has been found. 
9. S. stolonifera (Mett.) Broadh. comb. nov. 
Blechnum stoloniferum Mett. in herb. Meissn.; Fourn. Mex. 
as 113. 1872. 
Lomaria stolonifera Fourn. Mex. Pl. 1: 114. 3877, 
Lomaria Gheisbreghtii Baker; Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil. ed. 
2. 481. 1874. 
Spicanta Ghiesbreghtii O. Kuntze, Rev. Pl. 2: 821. 1891. 
Blechnum stoloniferum C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 160. 1905. 
Blechnum Ghiesbreghtii C. Chr. Ind. Fil. 154. 1905. 
Plants _terrestrial. 
» I-4 mm. long, yellowish brown to tobacco 
S II-20 cm. long;f stipes clustered, 5 mm. 
usually slightly angulate, without vestigial pinnae, 
entl » the apex rounded or obtuse, but often appar- 
hea acute be 
More o 
Margins enti 
us, Toughish in drying, never smooth as in the 
iia. . 
n 18 cm. long, 
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