582 FILICES. [Sadleria. 
ones are intermixed which have a gist rib. The pectinate pinnules carry at nearly 
right angles to the primary sorus a series of converging smaller sori, which recall in a 
measure the picture ag by ae vaaiet of Lomaria premencrte Kze., formerly called 
Scolopendrium Krebsi 
2. S. cyatheoides, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 162. — Trunk generally 3—5 ft., 
but sometimes more than twice that height. Stip. 1—2 ft. long, smooth, 
brownish, densely covered at the base with brown or reddish soft atte 
linear -lanceolate scales of about 2’, which run out to a hair-like point, 
otherwise naked. Frond dark, coriaceous, 2—3 ft. long, glabrate, oblong 
or ovate-oblong,-bipinnatifid. Pinnae 30—40 on a side, 6—10’ x Me—1', 
acute, deeply cut, often pinnately at the base, into numerous (about se 
narrow subfaleate entire pointed segments with revolute margins, 1—11/2" 
broad at the base. Veins hidden. Sori extending to near the apex, at 
maturity covering the entire lower surface. — Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 
-p. 107. — Hook. Sp. Fil. III, 65 (in part.). — Synops. Fil. p. ee. — Blech- 
num Kaulfussianum, Gaud. Bot. Bon. tab. 78. — B. nile tics Gaud. 
t. Freye. p. 397, tab. 15. — Brack. Fil. U. 8. E. E. p. 138. — Wood- 
cnvilin cyatheoides, “Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. “ ni 
Common on all islands at lower “a The highest trunks have been observed 
sig eign Hawaii! and in Wa im ea, Ka — The Boft, “cul, hake — ao gathered 
as former times 
the uit ‘macerated in water, ihe beaten together with he pest mama tes or 
wauke», to serve as asizing, perhaps also to impart a reddish dye, in be manufacture 
phe sary or native cloth. 
3. S. pallida, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. pp. 75 and 107. — Trunk 2—3 ft. 
high. Stip. 8--18’ long, rough below, clothed throughout, as are also 
main and secondary rhachides, with stiff linear long-acuminate brownish 
seales of about 1/ in length, which consist of a broad and dark spurious 
rib with a narrow fringe of diaphanous cells, the uppermost scales ribless. 
Frond stiff chartaceous, light-green, oblong, 11/2—2 ft. X 8/s—1'/s ft., bi- 
pinnatifid. Pinnae 18—28 on a side, 4/4‘ broad, close, acute. Segments 
of the apex, broad, filling the entire width when mature. — Mann, Enum. 
no. 559. — Blechnum pallidum, Brack. 1. c. p. 133. — Mettenius fide apap 
Hawaii! Kilawea; Maui! Specimens with naked frond and rhachis from Oahu 
Kauai! In restoring here a species repudiated by its author himself in later gate to I 
I 
believe I am out by the general characters and the habit of the plant North- 
east of Kilauea, ere it s in great abundance an all appearance undisturb 
by beast or man (for its scales are too a for pulu), I have not seen trunks higher 
than the limit given above. . Knudsen reports the same from Kaua 
. S. squarrosa, Man pose no. 660. — Caudex erect or oblique, 
2—6' high, 1/2—®/s’ na Stip. 6—10’ long, dark-brown, almost black, 
ent ; 
te inear auric 
Frond 10 )—20', “oblong eee. slightly narrowing below, charta- 
ceous to coriaceous, rather distantly bipinnate. Pinnae 12—24 ona side, 
