1033 103 4 



ceolate, less than 1 Ig, scarcely 1%' small scales intermixed as in rachis- 



wide, sub-coriaceous, chaff mostly decid, fronds 1-2 long growing in a crown 

 n " * 



> K' ' -nceoa Pnn pnne cse- 



ninntor at i e '^ ther obt y se . low- ly placed, lanceolate from a broad base, 



& l y /, lobe ^' K pp ^ r half ser ' nios yy curved upwards, incisely pin- 



th pointed and barely aculeate natind or again pinnate- segs or pin- 



r '*" Demote from margins." D. nules of variable shape, oval-rhomboid- 



fiS? ' -? ern f- NA 2:125 t 62 f 8 al - or unequally triangular-ovate and 



80), as Aspidium aculeatum scopul- auriculate on upper side of slightlv 



ounpr^ ^P^^m Lonchitis Eaton, stalked base, teeth aculeate in vaHous 



Coulters report in Hayden's 6th ann degrees; under surface more or less 



onSrn wl? Ur Ter ? 1872:788 as syn- chaff y-fibrillose; sori in 2 rows, on segs 



onym. "Wash; Id; Lt; Southern Cal; nearer mid vein than edge. Cal; Mt 



T^nww* TT o Peddo, Wash (Suksdorf). Synonyms: 



P. I.EMMONI Lnderwood, Our Native Polypodium aculeatum L, Sp PI 1090 



(1753). Aspidium aculeatum Swz, 



Stipes tufted 2-6' long, more or less Schrad J bot 1800 (2): 37 (1801). Dry- 



scales?* fronds ^'fong *$$ 1 '** KUntZ6 ' R6V Gen P1 



^ Fam P1 2:2 



into slightly toothed oblong rhomboidal Indusium cordato-reniform or orbicu- 



innules; teeth blunt or mucronate; lar with a narrow sinus; veins free. 



texture coriaceous; both surfaces naked; *Texture thin membranous, veins 



rachis stout, compressed scaly; veins simple or 1-forked, fronds 2-pinnatifid. 



close, immersed; son copious. Cal; Alk I. Lowest pinnae gradually reduced 



Synonym: Aspidium Mohriodes of Am to mere lobes. 



^ h ?, r n \o ? ot Bor y> Crypt Voy Duperr D. OREOPTERIS Maxon, US Na Mu pr 



267 (1828). 23:638 (1901). 



P. CAIiIFORNICTTM Underwood, Our Heath fern. Rtstock short, erect or 



Native Ferns, ed 6, 116 (1900). decumbent, scaly ;stipes short, tufted. 



"Stalks rather long; frond much elon- scaly below; fronds ! 1 /^-2 long 



gated, scarcely narrowed at base, thinly firm, membranous, broadly lanceolate, 



subcoriaceous, pinnae very num, lance- gradually tapering and attenuated be- 



linear, but slightly incised above middle, low, glandular; pinnae 2-3' long, sessile 



more and more deeply cut towards from a broad base, lanceolate-acumin- 



rachis, segs rhomboid-ovate, acute, ser- ate, deeply pinnatifid, gradually shorter 



rate with incurved aculeate teeth, the to the lowest, which are more distant, 



lowest superior one the largest, but deltoid, and less than 1' long; segs flat, 



scarcely distinct as a pinnule, and not nearly entire, oblong; sori quite mar- 



at all auricled." D. C. Eaton, Ferns ginal; indusia delicate, membranous, 



NA 2:124, as Aspidium aculeatum cali- more or less toothed at margin, BC; Alk; 



fornicum, citing Ferns of the southwest Y7ash. Synonyms: Aspidium oreopsis 



336, and Aspidium californicum Eaton, Swz, Schrad J bot 1800 (2); 35 (1801). 



in Am ac pr 6:555 (1865). and Baker, Polypodium montanum J. A. Volger, Dis- 



Syn Fil 253, as synonym. Cal; Wash, sert Polyp Mont 1781, not Lam, 1778. 



Synonym: Dryopteris aculeata calif or- Dryopteris montana Kuntze, Rev. Gen 



nica Underwood, Our Native Ferns ed 4, PI 2:813 (1891). 



112 (1893). D. NEVADENSE Underwood, Our Na- 



P. BBAUNII Lawson, Fern Fl Can [19] tive Ferns, ed, 4, 113 (1893). 



(1889). Rtstock creeping, densely covered 



"Stalk very short; frond elliptical-Ian- with persistent bases of former stalks; 



ceolate, tapering from the middle to fronds in a crown, 1^-3 long, lanceo- 



both base and apex, bipinnate; pinnules late; pinnae linear-lanceolate from a 



mostly distinct and very short-stalked, broad base, deeply pinnatifid, lower 



ovate or trapezoid-oblong, obtuse, trun- pairs distant and gradually reduced to 



cate and almost rectangular at base, mere auricles; segs crowded, oblong, 



slightly auricled, sharply serrate with slightly hairy on veins beneath, and 



incurved teeth, chaffy and fibrillose be- sprinkled with minute resinous parti- 



reath." D. C. Eaton, Ferns NA 2:124, cles; veins about 7 pairs to a lobe; sori 



as Aspidium aculeatum braunii, and close to margin; indusium minute, fur- 



cites Doell, Rheinische Flora 27. Gray, nished with a few dark-colored margin- 



Man ed 2.599. Milde, Fil Eur et Atlant al glands, and bearing several straight 



108. Aspidium Braunii Spenner. Fl jointed hairs on upper surface, Cal; 



Frib 1:9 t 2; Mettenius, Fil Hort Lips Ore. Synonym: Aspidium Nevadense D. 



88. Aspidium aculeatum Pursh. Fl Am C. Eaton, Ferns NA 1:73 t 10 (1878). 



Sept 2:662, and Am authors generally. D. CONTERMIHA (Nephrodium conter- 



Nova Scotia; Alk; BC; Mich; Pa; Vt; minum Desv). 



NH; Me. Synonyms: Dryopteris acu- Variety STIfclGOSA Underwood, Our Na- 



leata braunii Koch, Underwood, Our Na- tive Ferns, ed 4, 113 (1893). 



tive Ferns ed 4, 112 (1893). D. braunii Rtstock stout, erect, oft extending 1 



Underwood in. Brit & Brown 111 Fl 1:15 above ground, bearing a crown of 



(1896). fronds; stipes very stout, narrowlv 



P. ACUI.EATTTM Roth, Tent Fl Germ 3: wing margined at base; fronds 1-4 



79 (1800). long, lanceolate in outline, caudate-acu- 



Rtstock stout, erect; stipes variable minate, much narrowed at base, some- 



in length, very chaffy with large and what rigid, pinnate; pinnae sessile, nar- 



