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acuminate entire or lobate and pinnatifid, primary veins nearly 

 straight, the rest variously anastomosing inappendiculate, sori 

 in two series one on each side the costal vein of each seg- 

 ment compital (on the network of the veins) or terminating 

 a veinlet within a large costal arcole, involucres rotundato- 

 reniform (scarcely hippocrepiform). — Sw. in Schi'ud. Journ. 

 1803, ii.;;. 279. Sijn. Fil. p. 5 1. // illd. Sp. PL \.p. 215 {cwcl. 

 the locality, " Virginia "). /. Sm. Cat. Cult. Ferns, p. 52. 

 Metten. Aspid. p. 1 17- Fee, Gen. Fit. p. 292. Sagenia, Moore. 

 Polyj)odium,Lm». Sp. PL p. 1549. Polypod.appendiculatum, 

 Siv. FL hid. Occ. iii. p. Ifi77- Polypodium Hippocrepis, Jacij. 

 Ic. Rar.Vn.t.64} {excellent). Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 51. JFilld. Sp. 

 PL p. 2.S5. Sagenia, Pr. Tent. Pterid. t. 2./. 24 and 25 [ex- 

 cellent for the venation). Moore. Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 53 A. 

 Brack. Fil. Un. St. Eapl. Ex. p. 181. Aspid. coriandrifolium, 

 Sw. Syn.p. 51. Nephrodium,Z)f5r., and Pr. Relig. Hank. Poly- 

 dictyum, Pr. Epiniel. Bot. Plum. Fil. t. 147 and 150 [good). 

 Aspidium dilaceratum, Kze. in Linn/ea, xxiii. p. 300 ? Aspid. 

 sinuatum, Labill. Austr. Caledon. p.\. t. \ [a broad-fronded 

 var., referred by Mr. J. Smith and Mettenius to Aspid. apii- 

 folium. Bathmium Billardieri, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 287. Aspid. 

 coadunatum. Wall. Cat. n. 337. Hook, et Grev. Ic. FiL t. 202. 

 Metten. llort. FiL Lips. p. 94. t. 22. f. 3, 4. Aspid. p. 118. 

 Sagenia, /. Sm. Moore. S. macrodonta. Fee, Gen. FiL p. 213. 

 /. 24 A. f. 1. Aspid. devexum, Kze. Bot. Zeit. vi. p. 259 

 [Metten.]. 



Var. /3. apiifolium ; pinnae and pinnules distant copiously 

 united by a broad wing of great length ; stipites and rachis 

 glossy ebeneous - black or castaneous.— Aspid. apiifolium, 

 Schk. FiL p. 128. t. 36 B. J. Sm. Brack. FiL U. St.ExpL 

 E.rp.p. 182. Metten. Aspid. p. 120. Nephrodium, //oo/c. and 

 Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 313. Microbrachys, Pr. Epim. 

 Bot. p. 52. Aspidium sinuatum, Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. 

 p. 343. 



Ilab. Tropical America: West Indies, abundant probably in all tlie islands ; 

 Jamaica {Harficpr/, n. 1585) ; Porto Rico, Sclnranecke, sort immersed, siink hi a 

 cavity (probably A. dilaceratum of Kunze : tbe same state is found by Mr. Wiles 

 in Jamaica) ; and Mr. Purdie's specimens from tlience have scaly gemmae in tbe 

 axils of the pinnic. Mr. C. Wright's specimens from Cuba are esi)ecially varia- 

 ble, the var. namm, forexamjjle, (n. 996) of Eaton, with perfectly fructified fronds 

 2-1. inches high, others a foot high (n. 995), and others (n. 833) 2-3 feet high. 

 Gnz.itmz\di, Skinner {f)-onds broad-ovate and subtriangular). Mexico, Galeotti, 

 n. 6484, Liebm. in Herb. Nostr. (Aspid. latifolium, Pr.). West coast of Panama 

 and adjacent islands in the Pacific, Seemann. Ecuador, Hinds. Foot of Chini- 

 borazo, elev. 3000 feet, Spruce (only one specimen found). East Indies, appa- 

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