562 FILICES. [ Phegopteris. 
bands, folded in M shape and uniting toward the rhachis. — Hook. Sp. 
Fil. IV, 268. — Synops. Fil. p. 313. — Brack. |. c. p. 15. 
var. procera. — Frond me EaNe ciliate on both faces. Pinnae 
1'/2—2 ft. long. Pinnules 3—4‘, substipitate with a truncate base, deeply 
cut into oblong rou ne: ble ae crenate lobes, which are separated by 
broad sinuses. Veins repeatedly forking and generally several branches 
soriferous, therefore the sori irregular on both lobes and undivided lamina. 
Sporangia oe ciliate. — Polypod. procerum, Brack. 1. ¢. p. 14, pl. 3. — 
Sp. Fil. IV, 
~ var. heath ee almost glabrous. Pinnae 2—2!/2 ft. 
long; longest pinnules 8—10‘, distinctly stipitate, cut down to the rhachis 
near the base into lanceolate acute wide of 3/s—11/2‘ KX 2—5", those 
of the upper pinnae subentire, with once forking veinlets, the lowest often 
again crenate or lobed, with pinnulate veinlets. Sori rather oblong when 
on the anterior branch of once forking veins only and placed in two 
converging submarginal rows, or round, smaller and irregular when occu- 
pying aes branches of pinnate veins. =e a always ciliate. — Sp. 
iss ide 
with the habitus of some species of Pteris, 
se <Akolea» and oW, aimakanui» of the 
on all islands, but is common only in the woods of “eigen Hawaii! the var. 8 ee 
the southern slope of Haleakala, Maui! { on Mt. K Kaala, Oahu! and Halemanu, Kaua 
for. praca. Hillebr. eel nea punctatum), Thunb. — Synops. Fil. p. 
312. — Var. glabra. — Rhizome underground, wide creeping, about !/2‘ thick, 
with scanty hairlets. Stip. * aati. of about 1 ft., stout, 2—3 ft. long, ma- 
hogany- brown, roughish at the base and aparinaty. hairy or flocculose, but 
quite glabrous above and a a Frond chartaceous, glabrous, deltoid or 
" 1—3’, deltoid or ovate-lanceolate, almost even-sided, 1'/2—2 ft. long. Secon- 
dary pinnae perpendicular, ovate-lanceolate, the lowest 6—10‘ long on stalks 
of '/2‘. Pinnae of the third and fourth order mostly opposite and perpen 
dicular, the latter oblong, 4—8” * 2—4”, rather obtuse, symmetrically 
notched or cut, even to the rhachis, into 3—6 pairs of generally opposite, 
spreading but forward curving, obtuse lobules, which are subentire at the 
lower margin but bluntly dentate anteriorly and at the apex. Veinlets 
istinct, not excurrent, 1—4 to a lobule. Sori apical, rather large, one 
to each sinus or notch. ee pale, with 14—1i6 joints. Spores pale, 
b. . ban 
ovoid-reniform. — Fi s 3, two broad lateral ones, curving 
externally, their upper ae apes by pps semilunar dorsal one. 
Top of Mt. Kaala, Oahu! heights malo, Molokai! in swampy ground. ~~ 
thachides are naked and 
polished, but tog little of ease e there exists in the ul 
viscid. The Kaala plants are herbaceous, with prominent eth to 
