578 FILICES. [Aspidium. 
or close to the bifurcation when on forked veins. Invol. orbicular-incised, 
dark, entire, glandless, not ciliate, soon evanescent, its ce ell- walls not 
wavy. Shoratigia with 14 joints. Siete reniform, slightly muricate. Two 
broad fib. vas. fascicles along the sulcus, their ends recurved in opposite 
directions, and 2 or 3 smaller ones. — Lastrea rubiginosa, Brack. |. ¢. 
p. 201. — Nephrodiwm Lancer: Hook. Sp. Fil. IV, 143. — Synops. 
Fil. p. 280. — Luersse n Fil. Graeff., p. 190, who unites with it not — 
only N. Fijiense, Hook: ot also Lastrea tenuifolia, Brack., both from 
the Viti Islds. 
On all islands at elevations of 5 aa ft.: Oahu! top of Mt. Kaala; Molokai! 
palis of Waikolu and Pelekunu; Hawaii! Kohala range; Kauai! 20 awa. — The 
specimens from the different yavaittaed are remarkably uniform. A variety peimnen 
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like the acum minate points of the lower fer consist of a single series of thin 
15. A. squamigerum, Mann, Enum. no. 605. — Rhizome 1’ thick, 
short, creeping above ground. ” Stip. at distances of 3/2—1 inch, 9—18‘ 
long, pale-brown, clothed throughout with thin transparent linear- 
lanceolate pale-brown scales which are covered with clavate glands. 
Frond membranous, dark green, brownish when dry, open, cyatheoid, 
roe to orate: chione:, se ft. long, 1/2—1 ft. broad, bi- ’ tri- 
acca distant in the large forms, falcate, sedis o only 1—6 sti- 
pitate, the others decurrent. pint pinnae on stalks of 2—9", almost 
even-sided, ovate-lanceolate, 5—8‘ X 31/26‘. Ultimate segments lan- 
ceolate, acute, 1/,—1/ X 2—3”, sessile with a broad base, subfalcate, cut 
into broad triangular forward pointing entire lobes. Veinlets a 
cuous, excurrent, simple or once forking. Sori dorsal on the middl 
the veinlets, flat, in 2 rows midway between the costule and edge, some 
times one to each fork-branch and then confluent. Invol. thin, cordate, 
ciliate with clavate glands. Annulus broad, with 16—20 joints. Spores 
Fib. vas. fas: 
papillose. . va cicles 4, the two lowest the largest. — Nephrodium 
Squamigerum ae & Arn. ee Beech. p. 106. — Hook. Sp. Fil. IV, 
tab. 270. — Synops. Fil. 80. — Luerssen, Fil. Graeff. p. 191. — 
Lastrea squamigera, seca 1 c. p. 198. — Carruthers in Fi. Vit. p. 359 
Rather rare. Oahu! Nuuanu; Lanai! Ma aa Also found on the Society and Mins 
ds. The plant is erica ‘evatheoid, like th ies, all pinnae, excep 
the lowest, tee all pinnules catadromous pa oh Nat. name: «Pauuoa». 
16. A. latifrons, Brack. 1. c. p.196. — Rhizome 2—3‘ thick, prostrate, 
rooting. Stip. tufted, 1'/2—2 ft. long, dusky-stramineous, paleaceous 4 at 
the base with shining deep-brown linear-lanceolate not eee ae 
of 1/2—1’, which run out into curled hair-like points, floceulose or f 
ceous above. Frond chartaceous, olive-green when dry, dotted phase 
