POI.YPOnilM, § KUPOLYPODIUM. 165 



3. P. (Eupolypodiuni) pseiidu-yrammitis. Gaud. ; caudices 

 slender filiform creejiing crowded and entangled (so that the 

 stipites in the mass appear tufted) short h an inch or little more 

 long, fronds subcoriaceous opaque rigid 2-5 inches long 1 line 

 wide linear obtusely dcntato-sinuate gradually attenuated at 

 the base into the stipes, costa prominent beneath, veins im- 

 mersed in the suljstance of the frond, sori very distant globose 

 or oval prominent and generally upon a projecting angle or 

 tooth of the frond and occupying the whole space between 

 the costa and the margin. — Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. But. p. 345. 

 Hook, et Am. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 103. t. 2\. B. P. Kaul- 

 fussii, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 178. Metten. Polyp, p. 35. 

 Grammitis tenella, Kaulfs. En. Fit. p. 84. Kze. Annul, xiv. 

 t.9.f. 1. 



H.ib. Sandwich Islands, Gaudichaud, Beecheif, Brackenridge. — A well-marked 

 species, peculiar, I believe, to the Sandwich Islands. We had noticed in the 

 ' Botany of Beechey's Voyage,' that this Fern is very tender and membranaceous. 

 It is so, Brackenridge remarks, "when growing in shady localities, liut in open 

 and exposed localities the specimens are rigid and coriaceous," as shown in the 

 specimens of that author sent me by Mr. Eaton. 



4. P. (Eupolypodium) gramineum, Sw. ; caudex very small 

 clothed with ovato-lanceolate rufous scales densely radiculose 

 below, stipites in fascicles of from 3-5 slender filiform 1-2 

 inches long pubescenti-scaberulous, fronds 2-4 inches long 

 1^ line wide firm coriaceo-membranaceous quite entire ob- 

 tusely acuminate the base cuneate, veins sliglitly prominent 

 erect-patent forked the superior branch ijearing the sorus 

 which is nearly parallel with the costa and occupying almost 

 the whole space between the costa and tlie margin and more 

 or less of the whole length of the frond. — Siv. Fl. Ind. Occ. 

 p. 1629. Metten. Polypod. p. 35. Schk. Fil.p. 8. t. 7 {very 

 good). Grammitis linearis, Sw. Syn. Fil. p.2\ [c\rcl. the Syn. 

 of Asplenium angustifolium, Jacq.). Mecosorus nudus, A7. 

 in Linncea, xx. p. 405 {and in Herb, nostr.). Polypod., 

 Metten. Polypod. p. 37- Grammitis cccspitosa, Bl. En. Fil. 

 Jav. p. 196." t. 46./. 1. 



Hab. 3nma.\csi,Jacquin, Bancroft. St. Yinceut, L. Guildinr/. British Guiana, 

 R. Schomburgk. Java, Bliime. — Quite a good species, faithfully represented by 

 Schkuhr, but strangely confounded by Swartz and his followers with the Asple- 

 nium angustifolium of Jacq. (Ic. PI. Rar. t. 199), which is Polgjwd. australe, 

 from the Straits of Magellan! Klotzsch's Mecosorus tmdus is identical with 

 this. Mettenius gives St. Helena as a locality for this species, but he does not 

 say upon what authority. Still more remarkable is the fact that this same tro- 

 pical American species 1 have received from Blume as his " Grammi/is /jusilhi, $. 

 alpestris ;" so named in error, for the plant is clearly his 6'>C)w»»7».« ctr.v/^fVosff, 



