POLYPOniMM, § P'lKOOPTERIS. 231 



small lobe terminated by an oval or subglobosc sorus occu- 

 pying the loljule. — Hook. Ic. PL t. 221. Metten. J'olypod. 

 p. 5\, according to the reference to Hook. Ic. PL; but not 

 according to the localities given. 



Hab. Cliacapoyas, Province of Myobamha, eastern declivity of the Andes of 

 Peru, Matheivs. — I have never seen any specimens of tiiis most distinct species 

 of Poll/podium, except Mr. Mathews's Peruvian ones ; and all that I have seen 

 from Jamaica, Merida, etc., and from Lechler (Peru), under this name, are an- 

 other species. (See our next number.) My figure above quoted will show it to 

 be quite unique of its kind. 



151. P. (Eupolypodium) decipiens, Hook.; caudex a ho- 

 rizontal or ascendent copiously rooting rhizome on tlie 

 apex of which the copious slender subferruginously pilose 

 flexile stipites 1-H inch long are aggregated, fronds 4 inches 

 to a foot long 1^-2 inches wide flaccid drooping firm- 

 membranaceous slightly glanduloso-puljescent ol)long-lan- 

 ceolate acuminate pinnatifid nearly to the rachis or often 

 quite so and then pinnate, segments or pin nee varying in 

 length 1-2 inches long 1 line wide here and there one ap- 

 pears among the rest \h and even 3-4 inches long which is 

 itself in the same manner as the frond pinnatifid, all the 

 segments linear acuminate distant coarsely serrato- or lobato- 

 pinnatifid the base Ijroader and decurrent, costule as well as 

 the rachis generally black, veins simple one to each lobe or 

 serrature and occupied' by a small oval sorus scarcely sunk 

 in a cavity. (Tab. CCLXXIX. B.)— P. piHpes, KL in 

 Linncea, xx. p. 382, and Metten. Polyp, p. 51 \not Hook.). 

 FiL Lechl. Peruv. p. 7- 



Hab. Jamaica, Macfadi/en, Wiles. Columbia, Moritz, n. 337. Forest of 

 Archedona, Ecuador, Jameson. Trunks of trees, Sachapata, Peru, Lechler, n. 

 2714. — Although certainly an allied species to my P. pilipes, this is, in reality, 

 extremely different, as may at once be seen by the figures respectively quoted. 

 My figure and description of the latter have been quite misunderstood by Klotzsch 

 and Mettenius. 



§§ Phegopteris. — Same characters as Eupolypodium, bid the fronds are rarely 

 simple, frequently pinnate, generally variously compottnd. Stipes not articu- 

 lated upon the caudex. — This group of Eupolypodium is merely ret.iined out of 

 respect to those able botanists who consider its character sufficient to establish 

 a genus. Neither habit nor assigned characters appear to me to warrant the 

 distinction. It corresponds with Lastrea among involucrate Ferns, and where 

 the involucre is fallen off the latter it is impossible to distinguish the two ge- 

 nerically. 



* Fronds simple, pinnatifid, rarely suhpinnate at the base. 152. 



152. P. (Phegopteris) decnrsivo-pinnaiiwi, Yan Hall; cau- 

 dex oblique stout, stipites tufted 4-6 inches long and as well 



