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have no hesitation in characterizing it as new. In size and composition it re- 

 sembles A. pseudo-nit idumoi Haddi, but the texture of the frond is very ditfereiit, 

 the pinnae much less acuminated, the pinnules much more coarsely and unequally 

 serrated, the sori much shorter and very few in number, but above all the stipes 

 and main rachises are the most glossy ebcneous-black of any species 1 am ac- 

 quainted with. 



171. A. (Euasplenium) sqnamosinn, Linn.; caudex inclined 

 (repent?) stout as thick as a man's finger paleaceous with 

 large membranaceous fimbriated scales, stipes in like nuunier 

 paleaceous stout pale-brown thicker than a swan's-quill H 

 foot long, frond ample 2-3 feet or more long (Karsten says 

 6 ft.) broad-ovate bright-green rather opaque subcarnoso- 

 membranaceous bipinnate, pinnre large very paten.t (3-4 

 inches apart on each side) 7-8 inches long 4 inches and more 

 broad, pinnules large 1-1-^ inch apart petiolulate 2i-4 inches 

 long \\ to nearly 2 inches broad rhombeo-ovate acute or more 

 or less acuminate, the base cuneate unequal-sided entire un- 

 equally and subduplicato-serrate or sublobato-serrate, superior 

 base more or less extended and even auricled (rarely bearing 

 a single pinn\tle there), teeth or serratures generally obtuse, 

 ultimate pinnules confluent, veins oblique often twice or 

 thrice forked subflabellate, sori linear ^j to | of an inch long 

 parallel with the costa except in the auricle, rachis nmch 

 compressed green winged. (Tab. CCX.) — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 

 1539. 8w. Sijn. Flip. 83. WiUd. Sp. PL \. p. 343. Meiten. 

 Aspl. p. 168. Aspl. magnum, Karst. Fl. Columb. i. p. 69. 

 /. 34. Lingua cervina ramosa, Plum. Fil. p. 86. t. 103. 



Hab. Ilispaniola, rare, Plumier. Venezuela; Tovar, n. 132, Fcndler. Cor- 

 dillera of Bogota, Karsten. — This is one of the most remarkable and striking of 

 the genus. Assuredly among the bipinnated or decompound species of the genus, 

 there is none that approaches it. Some of the most acuminated of the pinnules 

 have a distant resemblance to the ordinary pinna; of Axpl. Serra. especially in the 

 direction of the sori, but here we have a perfectly bipinnate 'i)l«iit, and the 

 texture of the frond is different, and the scales of the caudex and stipes are totally 

 diflferent. The species seems to be extremely rare. Plumier records it as such. 

 His figure and description leave no doubt of the identity of his plant with ours, 

 consequently it is the Aspl. sqtiamosum of Linnanis, Swartz, and Willdenow, who 

 only take up the species from Plumier. It has recently been detected by Fendler 

 in Venezuela, and by Karsten in the Cordillera of Bogota, at an elevation of 

 8000 feet. 



172. A. (Euasplenium) adiantoides, Raddi; caudex short 

 stout subrepent crowned with subulato-setaceous black scales, 

 stipites aggregated a span to 1 foot long slender, brownish 

 below paler upwards, fronds 1- U foot and more long ovate 

 or ovato-lanceolate acuminate membranaceous tender green 

 3-4-pinnate, pinnte long-petiolate distant spreading their 



