Aspidium.]} FILICES. 577 
some fronds all pinnae, except perhaps the fourth, are anadromous at 
the base or at least homodromous; in others from the same locality 4—7 
of the middle ones are catadromous until one second to fifth pinnule. 
Hawaii! Hamakua, 5000 ft.; W. Maui! Molok 
~ var. pusillum. — Frond herbaceous, ovate-oblong, 5—8‘ long, on a 
slender stipes of 3‘, bi-, tripinnate, the st pinnule scarcely guna 
Pinnae all anadromous trons the base. ideck thin, fugacious. Fib. vas. 
ducts 3 or 4 
Kauai! 5000—6000 ft. (Kn. and E. Johnson). 
Formae subphegopteroideae. — In the two following varieties all stipitate 
pinnae, except the one, two, or rarely three lowest, are catadromous from 
the base to the second or fifth pinnule; they are shortly stipitate on stalks 
of only 2—4", and the lowest basal pinnule points straight downward, 
not outward. Glands more copious. 
var. soripes. — A small bipinnate, open. form; the herbaceous frond 
9—12‘ long, with a slender stramineous stipes of the same length. Pinnae 
and pinnules narrow, the tertiary segments connected by a narrow border. 
Sori at a distance from the sinus on a much raised receptacle. Invol. sa 
ag Many glandular paraphyses between the sporangia. Fib. 
fascicles 
a the ve arp ih sori and involneres appear almost stipitate, the receptacle 11/2” 
s, of course, - Prine wies! becomes obliterated. — Molokai! 
; in the 
pst fo the ae ae rie pali of Wai 
var. ambiguum. — Frond large, 1—2 ft. long, 
aie or fibrillose with laciniate glandular scalelets, mostly brownish. 
Invol. glandular. Fib. vas. cageieice 4 or 
_ and W. Maui! Large forms, quite like glabrate Phegopteris unidentata, a, in appear- 
ne specimen from Kauai pene sprinkled with resinous dots on both faces 
ou the frond. 
14. A. rubiginosum, Mann, Enum. no. 604. 
b 
tripinnate. Rhachis 
— Rhizome? Stip. with 
af 
'/2—1', hirsute above with concolorous viscid but glandless hairs., Fron 
stiff membranous, dark green, subcyatheoid, large, ovate or deltoid, 
1—8 ft. long, 10—30° broad, tri-, quadripinnate; primary and secondary 
ie pacegae as well as the costules, densely covered with the same kind 
hair. Pinnae patent, shortly —— snd on a side, = lowest 
delinia with very unequal sides, 6—16' X 4—9", on stalks of 4—10”. 
condary pinnae perpendicular, the lower basal si ee not beget than 
the second. Ultimate pinnules patent, narrow oblong, 5—9" x 1J2—4", 
Shortly stipitate or sessile with a cuneate base, obtuse or rounded, 
notched or deeply cut into suboblong truncate or rounded segments. Sori 
dorsal on slightly raised receptacles, close to the midrib, one to a ae at 
Hillebrand, Flora of the Hawaiian Islands 
