220 ASPLENIUM, § ATHYRIUM. 



Hab. Mexico, Pic d'Orizaba, 9500 feet, Galeotti, n. 62G9 (the authority for 

 the species), Linden, same locality, 12,000 feet. Mountains of California, fim/yp*, 

 n. 303. — The three ))lants from the above localities are named Marfcii.sii in my 

 herbarium by Mr. Moore, but I do not see how they differ specifically from A. 

 Filix-fcemina. Fendler's n. 405, from Venezuela, and Linden's, N. Granada, n. 10 IG, 

 may be referred here or to A. Filix-foemina. 



218. A. (Athyrium) Hohenacker'umum, Kze. ; "frond mem- 

 branaceous flaccid nearly glabrous opaque olivaceous paler 

 beneath lanceolate long-acuminate slightly flexuose pinnato- 

 pinnatifid or subbipinnate, piniuc decurrent into a short pe- 

 tiole divergenti-patent rather remote obliquely oblong auricled 

 above attenuate at the apex more or less obtuse lower ones 

 divaricated abbreviated superior ones confluent, pinnules or 

 segments ovato-elliptic subfalcate rotutidate or truncate de- 

 currently cuneate at the base more or less confluent, invo- 

 lucres buUate pale brown, jjartial rachises margined glabrous, 

 primary short or shortish and the stipes angled loosely squa- 

 moso-paleaceous, rhizome short horizontal casspitose dense- 

 ly ferrugineo-paleaceous." — Allantodia Ilohenackeriana, Kze. 

 in Schk. Fil. Suppl. ii. p. 63. /. 26. Asplenium, Metten. As- 

 plen. p. 193. Athyrium, Moore. 



Ilab. East Indies: Canara, Huheuacker, PL Ind. Or. n. 211; Concan, Fmw ; 

 Scinde, Stocl.i ,- Matheran, 18,000 feet elev., Col. Bates. Cochin, Rev. Mr. 

 Johns/one. — There are some small states of A. Filiv-fcemina which a good deal 

 resemble this, but it seems distitict, and is much smaller. The involucre, too, is 

 very different, and singularly bullate, afterwards appearing to burst irregidarly 

 and to be retlexed, often giving the appearance of such an involucre as Mr. Brown 

 describes to his genus Allantodia, but it is not so in reality. 



219. A. (Athyrium) cystopteroides, Hook. ; caudex long 

 slender filiform repent sparsely scaly at the extremity, sti- 

 pites scattered but approximate 2-6 inches long, slender 

 stramineous glossy quite scaleless, fronds membranaceous 

 3-4 inches to a span long slightly glandulose narrow- or 

 broad-lanceolate bipinnate, pinnsn subsessile more or less 

 remote from a broad base gradually acuminate ^-Ij inch 

 long, pinnules oblong-ovate pinnatifido-crenate terminal ones 

 confluent entire, veins pinnate slightly hairy simple or forked, 

 involucres small convex glandularly hispid lunulate or reni- 

 formi-orbicular. — Athyrium cystoptcroides, Eaton, in Proc. 

 of the Am. Acad, of Arts and Sc. 1859, ]j. 110. 



Hab. Onsenia, Katonasima, and Anakeriraa, Loochoo Islands, C. Wright, 

 U. S. N. Pact/. Ejj)1. Erp. 1853-56, in Herb. Nostr.—k not very distinct- 

 looking species, yet in characters very different from any with which I am ac- 

 quainted. In size and ramification it resembles small specimens of A. Uohen- 

 ackeriannm, but the long, filiform caudex, and very ditfercnt involucres, will 

 readily distinguish it, and in habit it somewhat approaches Vystoptcris frayilis. 



