2 SCOLOPENDRIUM, § E USCOLOPENDRIUM. 



Pr. t. 42. /.I. S. officinarum, Siv. Syn. FiL p. 80. Schk. 

 Fil. p. 78. t. 83. Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 348. S. minus. Fee, 

 Gen. FiL p. 209. t. 17 D. f. 3. S. Lingua, Palmstr. Svensk 

 Bot. ii. t. 143. Aspleniura Scolopendrium, Linn. Sp. PL 

 1537. — \2lx. angustum; fronds small sublinear. Scolopen- 

 drium Lindeni, Hook. Ic. PL v. t. 488. 



Hab. Shady banks, woods, etc., throughout Europe, from Scandinavia (" ubi 

 rarissima filix") in the north, to Italy, Greece, Spain, Madeira, and the Azores 

 in the south; the Caucasus and Asia Minor (Niconiedia, Aucher-Eloi). N.Ame- 

 rica, State of New York, Dr. Torrey, and Lake Onondaga, Pursh. A small form 

 is in my hert)arium from Chiapas, jllexico. Linden ; and T poss ss fine specimens 

 from Ilakodadi, Japan, Wilford. — A species easily recognized, yet liable to sport 

 and to take peculiar and monstrous forms, especially in a state of cultivation. 

 Rarely sori are found on both sides of a frond (see Hook. Brit. Ferns, under 

 t. .37). — M. Fee's 5. minus, from the Pyrenees, is merely a young and dwarf state of 

 S. vulfjare. 



2. S. (Euscolopendrium) Hemionitis, Sw. ; caudex small no- 

 dose very scaly, stipites tufted elongated, fronds 4-6 inches 

 long liastato-sagittate, the lobes obtusely angled at the base, 

 sori distant short, veins all free. — Sw. Si/n. FiL p. 90. Cav.Ann. 

 de Cienc. y. p. 150. t. 41. f. 2. Schk. FiL p. 79. t. 84. IVilld. 

 Sp. PL V. p. 350 {excL Aspl. Hemionitis, L.). De Cand. FL 

 Ft. ii. p. 522. S. cordatum. Fee, Gen. FiL p. 209. S. sagit- 

 tatum, De Cand. FL Fr. v. p. 238. 



Hab. South of France, Italy, Sicily, Spain, Greece, Heldreich. — This is a very 

 different species from the S. vulgare, and appears to be peculiar to the south of 

 Europe, not extending to any of the opposite coasts of Africa or to the African 

 islands. 



3. S. (Euscolopendrium) pimuitwn. J. Sm. ; frond ample 

 coriaceo-membranaceous 2-3-4 feet long simple or in age pin- 

 nated, pinnpe remote a span long acuminate eroso-crenate the 

 base cuneate and (the uppermost ones) decurrent, terminal 

 pinna the largest its apex proliferous, sori linear-oblique, ra- 

 chis compresso-alate. — /. S^n. En. FiL PhiJipp. in Hook. Journ. 

 Bot. iii. p. 406 {name onhj). Kvnze in Schk. FiL p. 124./. 56. 

 S. longifolium, Pr. Reliq. Hcenk.p. 48. t. 9.f. 1 [ijoung plant 

 with undivided frond) . 



Hab. Luzon, Hcenke ; S. Camarines, Cuming, n. 187, and Leyte, 31 1.— I possess 

 fine specimens of the fronds of this noble species ; but neither the caudex nor the 

 perfect stipes. H?enke represents the stipes of the young simple-fronded speci- 

 mens as scandent and creeping. 



There has been referred to true Scolopendrium the S. Durvillm of Bory in 

 Duperrey. Voy. of the Coquille, Bot. p. 273. t. 37. f. 1, which repi-esetits a long 

 linear-lanceolate frond, with sori (if sori they are) more like those of a Gi/nuio- 

 gramme than of Scolopendrium ; and most imperfectly described. It is from the 

 Pacific island of Ualan, and the caudex is said to be scandent. The same plant 



