248 POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 



crisped ferruginous ones, stipes a span to a foot and occa- 

 sionally much more long paleaceous with the scales above de- 

 scribed, but smaller ones and also of two kinds often more 

 or less lacerated mixed with them, fronds very firm rigid-coria- 

 ceous thick oblong-lanceolate acuminate l|-2 (and even 4) 

 feet long 3-6 inches or a span wide bipinnate, pinnte erecto- 

 patent mostly crowded as well as the pinnules which are more 

 patent sub[)etiolate oblique ovate or rhomlieo-ovate cuneate 

 at the subauricled base acute often mucronate, the margin 

 more or less revolute entire or spinuloso-dentate, sori soon 

 confluent, rachis and costules densely squarroso-paleaceous 

 often red ferruginous with scales of different sizes generally 

 much crisped sometimes very large. — Phegopteris, Metten. 

 Phegopt. p. 11. Aspid., Kze. in Kl. Linncea, xx. p. 365. A. 

 gelidum, Kze. in Kl. Lc. p. 365. Polystichum, Fee, Gen. jJ. 

 278. Phegopt. cochleata, Metten. Phegopt. p. 11. 



Hab. Columbia, Tovar, Moritz (from MetteniusJ, n. 294 (A. gelidum, Kze.) 

 and 290. Ocaua, 5cA/(;«, alt. 10,000-11,000 feet. Bogota, /^o//o?i. Caraccas, 

 Linden, n. 237, 505. Sierra Nevada, S" Martha, near tiie snow, Purdie. Ve- 

 nezuela, Fendler, n. 171 (Aspid. cochleatum, Eat.). Peru: kndes, Maclean ; 

 above Titicaca, Lechler, n. 2011 (Aspid. robustum .', Aze. Metten.); Ecuador, 

 Quito, Jameson; Bolivia, Pentland. — ^,elatum; stipes as thick as one's finger 

 at the base, together with the lower part of the rachis densely squarrose, with 

 scales of extraordinarj' size, -g-1 inch long; fronds 4.* feet long; pinnules fal- 

 cate, acuminate, sharply auricled. Ecuador, rocky shady places at the foot of 

 Mount Tungnragua (" Filix Cccspitosa pulcherrima, stipite nonnunquam prolongo 

 5-pedali"), Spruce, n. 5623. — A very stout, compact-growing plant, with much 

 of the aspect of some forms of Aspid. aculeatum, and varying very much in the 

 scariose and scaly covering. 



179- p. (Phegopteris) ja/a/z//?%//Mm, Hook.; caudex short 

 erect stout paleaceous with large opaque ovate scales, stipites 

 tufted a span to l-H foot long slender stramineous (as well 

 as the rachis) paleaceous below, fronds 1-2 feet long, in a 

 young but fertile state often oblong-lanceolate much acumi- 

 nate simply pinnate with the rachis sometimes prolonged 

 rooting and proliferous, lowest pinnse sometimes again pin- 

 nate, when mature the fronds are 1^-2 feet and more long 

 8-10 inches to a foot and more wide coriaceo-membranaceous 

 full-green bi- rarely tri-piimate broadly ovate always ending 

 in a long very acuminate simply pinnated apex, primary pinnae 

 5 inches to a span long 1-2 inches broad spreading pinna- 

 tifid at the acuminated apex, pinnules horizontal f-1 inch 

 long petiolulate from an obliquely cuneated base above trun- 

 cated and acutely auricled ovate acute sometimes falcate re- 

 motely spinuloso-serrate, sori sparse small. — Phegopteris, 



