FILICES. 341 
_— subcrenate at the t. Native of Portu« tab. 29. This elegant species is, like some others, dis«  Filices.. 
Sel gel, td Sigurd by Tourelor, (het tab. 3138.) ” persed not only over Europe, but is found on Tene. “y= 
Stegania onocleoides nobis), Osm. 
Iton, me be stat ones 
Fhe 2 3 pi sein zane we un- 
by Bolton, 16, tab: 105, omen 
tab. 96, C1 It is singular, ou 
Sa It is found in the woods 
cular fasciculi have been imagined, by the us, 
to.resemble a cross ; others have vs 
separate wa: wel De ane Oe ved 
from. this circumstance, according to some. But proba- 
bly the remarkable of the pinne of the frond, 
Medecimdantie eraity fiye feet in length, has 
given rise to the name. 
of Pteris with erect 
fr eciadkr gained 7 Sait og 
fon and oblong acuminate pinata pinnuls, with 
n wi 
lanceolate poi and serrated Pathe 
figuredby Plumien, (Plonies de? 4 eek ot 
CE) Pela uni pte pollen tga ese 
vaiglae, the undermost |. This 
cies is found in the woods of the Society Islands and of. 
, Pp? 
propriate, as. many of these plants abound with similar 
sweet mucilaginous matter in the cellular substance of 
the stem. See also Br. Prodr..Nov. Holl. p, 154. 
Brown has also described three new Pterides, 
ing in habit to Adiantum, viz. Pteris falcata, Pt. niti« 
da, and Pt, nudiuscula. Vid. Prod. ut supra. 
(3.) Adiantum. 
in punctiform or linear ps, and inserted 
into the involucra formed by the inflexed eye of the 
frond, and opening inwards. 
Solium of Willdenow. The first is 
, riffe, Jamaica, Isle de Bourbon, ime South America, It- 
varies much i in. size. 
__Of the foreign there * ; axes with simple 
bay a ag the 4. reniforme and A, imple 
figured by Plukenet 
Alm, tab. 287. fig, 5.) and the second by Lamarck,' 
Illust. Gen. tab. 30), and Schkuhr, (tab. 115). Both 
‘resemble other * very much ; the frond of 
the first is, however, crenate ; eae s the. s aan very 
ae and broader than Jo ‘he: third, A. ships 
Pol ty ed also to. ee a siraple fron but. 
a is ‘figu 
Of the Adianta with pinnated fronds, the Rhizophos 
rum affords another instance of the naked clonpeint 
point of the frond . buds, producing .new: 
plants. Humboldt and Bonp land found several new 
of which, al in south America, particularly the 
|, varium, W althoug! > al with se< 
veral other species, continued groups of capsules, Will«. 
denow_refers to this genus : Probably these may, after. 
all, be Plerides. The A. teiraphyllum, A. politum, A. 
serratodentatum, and A. concinnum, were all found in, 
South America by the indefatigable Humboldt and 
Bonpland. Besides those described by Willde+ 
now, the following have been. since aah ‘by 
Brown.. 
1. A. paradoxzum, with pinnate fronds; the pinna: 
cordate, oblong, or lanceolate ; the veins ‘below obso= 
lete, and the groups of capsules. linear and continuous, 
2. A. formosum, with fronds decompound, deltoid. 
and leaflets tripinnate,_ with rhomboi , smooth, and 
blunt pinnule, the lower ones cut ; the ‘involucra kids, 
Dee De, and the stipes itself ‘rough, but its ramifi-, 
cations smooth 
aie Cheilanthes, 1976, Willd! Swarts, Fil. p. 5.” 
uunctiform or crescent-shaped groups, . 
santa te eas e sinus of the scarious involucrum,. 
formed by Were folded back, and « 
g inwards, - 
The whole of the have been. separated fron: 
Adiantum, with whi ra have the closest affinity ; 
but the interrupted punctiform. or .crescent-shaped 
groups of the fruit, distinguish them ; and, on a clo. 
ser view, the capsules are seen inserted into the. sinus 
of the involucrum. Of the thirteen species described by 
Willdenow, there are three remarkable for an sennte ; 
able odour: 
1. Ch. sauveolens, Polypodium. sauveolens of Desfona 
taines, with bipinnate smooth fronds, and very entire ob« 
pa 9 i ovate pinnule, the inferior pinne pinnatifid, filiform, . 
stipes. This species. is. by Schkuhr, 
(€r. Tr tabr19, 19.) It is anative of Barbary and Natolia, 
2. Che odora has also bipinnate fronds, but the - 
pinnule, instead of being perfectly entire, like those 
’ of the last, .are pinnatifid, with rounded entire borders, 
The stipites resemble the last. This species is a native 
of Switzerland and Italy, and ought to be introduced . 
into this country, the climate of which. it would en- - 
dure.: » 
3. Ch. fragrans has also: bipinnate fronds, with obs 
, lanceolate, obtuse, pinnatifid pinnule, and some~ 
what bifid lacinie ; the stipites chaffy. The fragrance 
of these three species renders their culture an object of 
particular interest, yet the last isthe only apres spe 
cies as yet introduced into the collection at Kew by 
F, Masson. The Ch. fragrans is figured by Swartz, (Syn. 
Petiver laciniated, ( azoph, tabi 4. . 
