Aspidium.} ; FILICES. 575 
Rather common on the highlands of E. Maui! Hawaii! andKauai! Nat. 
kahi». — The growing plant is cad distinguished from. the eliowcne variety oy He ‘tif 
erect habit, in shape like’ etn ock, ~~ 
opposite, as are also t segm ces in eke portion of the pinnae; only the ‘two 
lowest eer of pinnae are re distinctly anadromous at the base. — Among the numerous 
varieti: ftl ae viz., A. parallelogramimum, 
Kze. and 4. erty liecoss Mart. & Gal., are nea arest akin to the prerens form. Pinnae and 
Segments stand very close, ay as to touch each other, while in B the fewer egg leave 
a space Bae een them, and t 
8 var. fusco-atrum. — Stip. dark stramineous. Scales discolorous, those 
of the rhachis blackish, but otherwise as before. Frond pale, rather open, 
straggling, not stiff, ovate-oblong, 1'/2—2 ft. long and 10—22‘ broad, not 
narrowing below. Free pinnae 16—20 on a side, ascending, lanceolate, 
the lowest not shorter than those next to them, 6—10‘ long, 1—2’ broad 
at the base, distinctly stipitate, their margins cut 2's or more at angles 
of 70° into obtuse, lanceolate or subfaleate, wavy-crenate segments of 4“ 
in breadth, the inferior basal segment only being ce free with a sub- 
auriculate base. Veins indistinct, flexuose, simple or once forking. Sori 
large and distant, sometimes midway between costule and edge, but mostly 
nearer the 
Highlands of Haw , Maui! Molokai! Kauai! Liket pats ns forms in color 
and habit, but para in the truncate shape of the frond and the discolorous scales. 
Specimens from Ceylon agree in both r espects, but have aimerenty cut segments. Few 
pinnae are opposite, but the segments and veins generally a 
The species with its numerous modifications itis — r four continents from the 
ey circle to the mountainous regions of many t It is however absent 
m Australia, and in Polynesia is confined to the Heirs group. 
12. A, Hawslinnne, sp. 0. — Caudex erect, 4—8‘ high. Stip. slender, 
8—18‘ long, dusk , brownish below, sparingly covered through- 
out with thin entire linear- jassmnckats brown scales which change to 
remotely dentate dark fibrils on the rhachis and rhacheoles. Frond polys- 
tichoid , chartaceous, dark green, oblong or ovate oblong, not oar: 
low, 1—2 ft. eae and 10—12’ broad, bi-, tripinnate. Pinnae (12—16 
Stipitate ones on a side) patent, — overlapping, oblong ws F nieiaas 
ceolate, 21/2—3’ broad at the t e base, shortly Beano and partly 
Covering the soma the lw Piel little uneven- — stalks of 
1—1'/2”. Pinnules close, lanceolate, 11/2—2'/2' X 3; , the ii ones 
shortly cn: “aber cut i broad oblong eee rounded or 
truncate lobes 2—3 broad with 1—3 short toothlets at the apex. Veinlets 
indistinct, flexuose, simple or once forking. Sori 4—6 in each lobe, dorsal, 
halfway between midrib and edge. Invol. dark, thin and flat, orbicular- 
incised, sometimes peltate, with a few sessile ovoid glands, its cells not 
Wavy. Sporangia with about 18 articulations. Spores ovoid-reniform, 
verrucose. Fib. vas. bands 5—7. 
Hawaii! northern slope of Mauna Kea, 4000—5000 ft., in the woods near egies 
tanch, where it was collected by he weteed in 1862. —M. & B's no. 284 is from the s 
