SCOLOPENDKIUM, ^i ANTIGRAMME. O 



is taken up by Kunze, Sckh. Fil. p. 9. t. 5, where a very different and very abnormal 

 state of the Fern is given, with *' sori " equally unlike those of a ^colopoiidrium, 

 and which Mr. Smith is disposed to refer to a diseased state of his SlciiochUniia 

 scandens. He is probably right in this conjecture. — Another supposed si)ecies of 

 Scolopendrium, S. Krebsii, Kze., I consider to be a form of our Lomaria pnnciu- 

 lata, vol. iii. p. 31, where see the observations under that species. 



§ Antigr.\mme. — Veins free at the base, anastomosing towards the margin ; 

 fronds costate. 



4. S. (Antigramme) Brasilieytse, Kze. ; caudex short erect 

 copiously rooting, fronds a span to a foot long simple ol)long- 

 lanceolate more or less acuminate costate entire or only- 

 sinuate tapering below into a rather short stipes, sori copious 

 varying in length confined to the free portion of the veins. — 

 Kze. in Linnea, xxiii. p. 291. Asplenium Brasiliense, Sio. 

 Vet. Acad. Hand/. Stock. 1817, p- Q^- 1. 3./. 1. Aspl. dubium, 

 Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 314. Antigramme Brasiliense, 

 Moore. Ind. Fil. p. 78. Scolopendrium ambiguum, Raddi, 

 Fil. Bras. 40. t. 67- / 1. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. G7. 

 S. repandum, Pr. Del. Prag. i. jo. 1 80. Antigramme repanda, 

 Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 120. t. 4. /. 9, 10. Hook. Gen. Fil. 

 t. 27 A.; Ic. PI. t. 2. p. 183. A. subsessilis, Fee, Gen. Fil. 

 p. 210 {narroio frond and short stipes). 



Hab. Brazil; most frequent in the south. 



5. S. (xlntigramme) Douglasii, Hook. ; caudex (?), stipes as 

 long as or longer than the frond, frond about a span long 

 ovate and acute at the base or cordato-ovate acuminate co- 

 riaceo-membranaceous entire or sinuated, sori linear much 

 elongated generally as long as the free portion of the 

 veins. — Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 55 A. and t. 57 A. Asplenium, 

 Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 150. Scolopendrium plantagineum, 

 Schrad. {fide Pr.) Antigramme, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 120. 

 Antigramme populifolia, Pr. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 210. Hemi- 

 dictyon Douglassii, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 111. 



Ilab. Brazil, about Rio, Douglas, Morieand ; Organ Mountains, Gardner, n. 

 148. — This is the finest of the Scolopendrioid grou]). Some of my specimens have 

 the fronds 10 inches long and nearly 5 inches broad ; the broadest much resem- 

 ble a large poplar-leaf. 



§ ScHAFFNERiA.^ — Vexus fiahellate.free at the base, anastomosing towards the 

 margin ; fronds ecostate. 



G. S. (SchafFneria) nigripes, Hook. ; caudex short erect 

 clothed with black subulate scales, stipites tufted short thick 

 ebony-l)lack articulated at the summit, fronds I.t-Ij inch 

 long obovate carnoso-subcoriaceous entire ecostate, veins 



