POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 239 



Plumier's figure is the authority for WiUdenow's Aspid. rolnndatum, which has 

 again heen referred by authors to Polyp, faxio-punctatum. lint our present plant 

 seems to accord far better with it. In texture and in the pelhicido-pnnctate cha- 

 racter of the frond it exactly accords with /'. Tijnccanum, but the shape of the 

 pinnae and the venation are very different. 



165. P. (Phegopteris) /«iJo-y>//«f/o/«m, Klfs. ; caudex ap- 

 parently erect stout woody, stipes 1 h foot and more long 

 stout sparsely scaly, frond ample 2-3 and more feet long 

 \-\h foot and more wide thin-membranaceous but firm with 

 copious scattered minute pellucid yellow dots, broad-ovate 

 lanceolate sharply acuminate pinnated below the pinnoc up- 

 ward gradually becoming sessile and decurrent and at length 

 quite coadunate at the deeply pinnatifid apex, pinnae inferior 

 ones very long 9-10 inches long from \-\r, inch broad petio- 

 late all of them from an obliquely cuneated base sharply and 

 long-acuminate subfalcate or subflexuose the margin more or 

 less serrate or lobato-dentate or pimiatifid with ovate obtuse 

 lobes, veins copious all free rather distant pinnated with 6-8 

 veinlets simple or rarely forked which thus bear the sori in 

 two series corresponding with and parallel to the primary vein 

 but having a scattered appearance upon the disk of the ])innule, 

 rachis often very stout deciduously paleaceous with subu- 

 late hairlike scales which sometimes extend to the underside 

 of the costge. — Var. a, Kaulfussii ; pinnae coarsely dentate 

 or subserrate. P. flavo-punctatum, Kaulf. En. FiL p. 108. 

 Phegopteris, Fee, and Metten. Phegopi. p. 20. Polyp, longi- 

 caudatum, Liebm. FiL Me.v. p. 57- — Var. ^,pinnatifida ; pinnse 

 more or less deeply pinnatifid. P. Prionitis, Kze. in Flora, 

 1839, Beibl. i. p. 29, axd in Herb, nostr. Phegopt., Fee, 

 Gen. p. 243. Phegopteris Tijuccanum, Eat. in FiL Wright, 

 et FendL p. 207, and in Herb, nostr. {not Raddi). 



Hab. South America and Martinique, Ryan, Belanger, in Herb, nostr. Ocafia, 

 Schlim, n. b9G. Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 412. Mexico, Liebmann, 

 in Herb, nostr. — /8. Brazil (Moricand), Caraccas, Miqiiel. Venezuela, Fendler, 

 n. 198. West Indian Islands, freijuent : Martinique, Belanger; Dominica, 

 Imray ; Jamaica, Wilson, n. 516. — llemarkable for its thin papery texture, and 

 for the pellucid dots in the substance of the frond. These yellowish dots, how- 

 ever, are not close and coiuj)act, as in the following species, but much more 

 sparse and distant. 



166. P. (Phegopteris) Tijuccanum, Raddi ; caudex ? (a 

 small portion that I possess with fibrous radicles of Mr. 

 Spruce's n. 46.")4, is most densely covered with a thick floc- 

 cose mass of delicate ferruginous long linear-subulate flex- 

 uose scales), stipes 1-1^ foot long stout crinite with scales 



