EequieniatKjB. N, O. Filiccs, 



TAB. CCXIII. 



ScOLOPENDRIUM SAGITTATUM. 



Humile, frondibus oblongis basi dilatatis hastato-bilobis lobis 



angulatis, soris per totam longitudinem frondis oblongis ob- 

 liquls. 



S. sagittatum. De Cand. Fl. Fr. v. 5. p. 238. BoL GalL v. \.p. 

 540. 



S. Hemionitis* De Cand. h c. v. 2. p. 552 {non Asplenium He- 

 mionitis^ i. fide De Cand.). 



Hab. About Marseilles, and near Bonifacio in Sicily. Requien 

 [in Herb, nostr,). 



The above are the stations given by M. De Candolle for his 

 S. sagittatum^ a plant which some botanists have united with S. 

 vulgar e^ and others again with 5. Hemionitis^ Willd, [Asplenium^ 

 L.). The specimens here figured are from Bonifacio, kindly 

 given to me by M. Requien : -and it is certainly a very distinct 

 species from our common Harfs Tongue^ not only in the size 

 and shape of the fronds, but in the form and direction of the 

 sori. I am not, however, so well satisfied respecting its differ- 

 ences from S. Ilemionitis of Cavanilles, a native of Spain, Por- 

 tugalj and Italy, of which I possess no authentic specimen, nor 

 have I the opportunity of referring to the original figure in the 

 Annales dos Sciencias Nat. But if the representation in Schkhuhr's 

 Filices {t. 84), which is always quoted for the true plant, be 

 correct, I should say that the present diifers from it only in the 

 lesser development of the lobes at the base of the frond. 



