206 POLYPODIUM, § EUPOLYPODIUM. 



gated thick as a goose-quill flexuose clothed with lanceolate 

 long acuminated scales broad at their base, fronds pinnatifid 

 (pinnate below according to the figure) hairy, segments lan- 

 ceolate acute entire slightly curved below ciliated, the sinuses 

 rounded rather broad, sori golden-colour close-placed near 

 the margin but disthict ellipsoid, capsules subrotund, annulus 

 of fourteen articulations, spores ellipsoid." Fee, Gnie Mem. 

 Fou(/. Nouv.p. 57. t. 21./. 1. 



Hal). Mexico, on mountains, elev. 12,000 feet, Schaffner.—'' k beautiful flexile 

 Fern, habit and size of P. vidgare." The veinlets are represented as patent, once 

 or twice forked obliquely ; the elliptical sori have the same direction and termi- 

 nate the superior basal branch of the vein. 



102. P. (Eupolypodium) Abitaguce, Hook,; caudex rather 

 stout short creeping ? densely clothed with ferruginous erect 

 linear subulate straight somewhat rigid scales, stipites 6 

 inches to a span long rather stout firm and as well as the 

 rachis purple-black ferruginously pilose, fronds coriaceo- 

 membranaceous subpellucid 1 foot long .3-4 inches broad 

 broad-lanceolate acuminate deeply pinnatifid almost to the 

 rachis, segments 2 inches long \ of an inch wide from a 

 broad base decurrent below (forming sharp sinuses) sublan- 

 ceolate gradually acuminate slightly falcate, the margin entire 

 or obscurely repand hairy at the margin and ciliated with 

 dark-brown long hairs the rest glabrous, veins internal black 

 (as Vv'ell as the costule) distinctly seen on being held between 

 the eye and the light rather distant oblique once-forked, 

 upper and shorter branch bearing the sorus thus forming a 

 series of sori intermediate between the costule and margin. 



Hab. On trees, Abitagna, Ecuador, Spruce, n. 5281. — A Polypodium with a 

 good deal of the habit of P. vulyare, but with the segments much more acumi- 

 nated, the margin strongly ciliated with almost black hairs ; the veins are inter- 

 nal, black, and all once forked; the scales of the caudex almost ^ an inch long, 

 peculiarly straight (not at all crisped) ; and the stipites and rachis are deep, purple- 

 black, and ferruginously pubescent. 



10.3. P. (Eupolypodium) peUucidum, Klfs. ; caudex creep- 

 ing thick ferrugineo-paleaceous, stipites approximate stout 

 testaceous 4-5 inches long, fronds ovate or oblong very firm 

 and coriaceous a span to a foot long 3-5 inches broad deeply 

 nearly to the rachis pinnatifid, segments oblong or linear- 

 oblong ^ of an inch wide very obtuse approximate subhori- 

 zontally or rarely erecto-patent margined crenato-dentate or 

 serrate' the lower base a little decurrent, veins erecto-patent 

 twice or thrice dichotonious pellucid and there are besides 



