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Three grasses of rather an inferior 

 quality. 



Plantago major. Willd. 



PoAJapouica. Willd. 1.394. 



prateiisis. Willd. 1.388. 



laxa. Willd. 1. 386. 



E, PoiNciANA puleherrima. Willd. Prickly flower-fence. 

 E. PoLYANTHES tubcrosa. Willd. 2. 164. Tuberose. 

 I. PoLVPODiUM macrocarpum. Willd. 5. 147. 



Surculi creeping, slender and very scaly, rooting on trees, rocks, &c. 

 stipes short, slender, polished dark brown, and somewhat winged, while 

 young scaly. Fronds (4-6 inches,) narrow-lanceolar, tapering most at the 

 base, entire, rather obtuse, smooth, thick, firm, veinless, surfaces, parti- 

 cularly the under dotted with small ferruginous specks. Spots in one row 

 on the exterior half, large, round and distinct, but intermixed with many 

 peltate scales, which while young unite and form a complete polyphyllous 

 involucre. 



Is a pretty, delicate species, growing over the south face of Dianas 

 Peak. It may be referred to Pleopeltis of Humboldt and Bonpland. 



I. PoLYPODiuM molle. R. 



Stipes deeply channelled, and with the rachis clothed with soft hair 

 and large brown ramenti. Fronds ovate, soft and hairy underneath, sub- 

 oppositely-bipinnate ; leaflets deeply crenate. Fructifications numerous, 

 small, ^""enei-aily in two ill defined rows equally distant from the nerve and 

 margin. 



A native o( Diana's Peak, grows in tufts in moist thickets to be 2-4 feet 

 high. 



I. PoLYPODiUM rugulosum. Willd. 5. 206. 



Stipes hairy. Fronds oblong alternately bitripinnate, texture thin 

 and soft ; pinnae lanceolate, obtuse ; leaflets dentate. Spots submarginal. 

 Found on Diana's Peak, growing to the height of 2-3 feet, but slender, 

 and every way delicate. 



I. PoLYPODiuM dicksonifoUum. R. 



Stipes brown, channelled and scabrous. Fronds lanceolate subtri- 



