600 RoBINSON: PTERIDOPHYTA OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Gaud. Voy. Freyc. Bot. pl. 9. 1828; Presl, 
Tent. Pterid. pl. 2. f. 5. 1836; Hook. Sp. Fil. 4: pl. 247, 1862. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Hawaii, Robinson 232 V; Wilkes Expe- 
dition C; Molokai, Hillebrand B; Oahu, Anderson B; Bennett 11 
B; Bennett B; Chamisso B; Heller 1991 C, N; Lichtenthaler N; 
Macrae B; Meyen B; Remy 13 C; Robinson 21 V; Wilkes Ex- 
pedition N; Kauai, Heller 2857 C; Hillebrand 85 B; 87 B; Mann & 
Brigham 152 N; Wilkes Expedition N; Hawaiian Islands, Baldwin 
B, C; 63 C; Beechey C; Wilkes Expedition C; Gaudichaud B; Lindley 
C; Miss Sessions C; Wilkes Expedition B; ex herb. Kew Gardens 2 
specimens C, 
The tips of young leaves of this fern are eaten by the Hawaiian 
natives as a salad. 
There is an interesting superficial resemblance between Dryop- 
teris cyatheoides and D. stegnogrammotdes. 
DRYOPTERIS STEGNOGRAMMOIDES (Baker) C. Chr, Ind. Fil. 294. 
1905 
Polypodium polycarpon Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 104. 1832. 
Not Swartz. 
Stegnogramma sandwicense Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. 26. pl. 4. 
1854. Not Dryopteris sandwicensis C. Chr. 
Polypodium sandwicense Hook. Sp. Fil. 5: 5. 1864. (Not 4: 267. 
1862.) 
Polypodium stegnogrammoides Baker, Syn. Fil. 317. 1867. 
Phegopteris microdendron D. C. Eaton in Mann, Proc. Am. Acad. 
P7216. 1867. 
Nephrodium polycarpon Diels in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 14: 179. 1899. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Hawaiian Islands. 
DISTRIBUTION: Hawaiian Islands. 
ILLUSTRATION: Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. pl. 4. 1854. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Hawaii, Robinson 617 V; Molokai, 
Hillebrand B; Lindley C; Macrae B; Kauai, Forbes 239 BM; 
Hawaiian Islands, Baldwin B; Gaudichaud B. 
' Hillebrand (Fil. Haw. Is. 560. 1888) describes the caudex of 
Dryopteris stegnogrammoides as erect, but the specimens collected 
by the writer had prostrate rootstocks. His variety depauperata 
probably owes its decreased size and pubescence to its expose 
