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nutely pellucido-glandulose beneath (the glands apparently 

 in age forming copious minute appressed oblong sjjicules), 

 bipinnate below, the rest pinnate, primary lower pinnfe 

 12-14 inches long G inches wide sessile broad-oblong acumi- 

 nate pinnated pinnatifid at the acuminated a])ex, pinnules 3 

 inches long h-'i of an inch wide from a truncated base ob- 

 long-acuminate pinnatifid about halfway down with closely 

 placed rounded obtuse or obliquely acute subentire lobes or 

 segments, the rest of the primary pinnse are from 6-8 inches 

 long 1-2 inches wide oblong-acuminate deeply nearly to the 

 costa pinnatifid, the segments often an inch long and j of an 

 inch wide oblong obtuse lobato-serrate at the margin, a few 

 of the lowest ones free (forming pinnules) and those more 

 elongated and pinnatifid, veinlets simple or once or twice 

 forked, sori often copious rather large in two rows near the 

 margin, rachis and costcE obscurely hirsuto-paleaceous. 



Ilab. Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, Dr. Rillebrand, n. 42. — This is too striking 

 a Fern to pass by unnoticed, yet I have not the materials for correctly describing 

 the entire plant. It was named P. procerum by Dr. Hillebrand ; but variable as 

 that Fern no doubt is, this is certainly distinct. Sori all near the margin. 



192. P. (Phegopteris) pieroideum, Kl. ; caudex?, stipes 

 2-4 feet long very paleaceous towards tlie base with large 

 ovato-lanceolate brown scales, fronds ample 2-3-11 [Spruce) 

 feet long subpendulous or subscandent chartaceous broad- 

 lanceolate acuminate bipinnate 1-3 feet broad, pinnae 6 inches 

 to 1^ foot long 1-3 inches broad oljlong acuminated in op- 

 posite remote pairs, pinnules also frequently in opposite ra- 

 ther distant horizontal pairs approximate and confluent U]5- 

 wards 1-1 4 inch long 3-5 lines wide from a truncated sessile 

 base linear-oblong acute or acuminated quite entire or cre- 

 nato-serrate, lower ones often deflexed, veins simple in the 

 smaller specimens forked in the larger ones all sorifcrous 

 near the apex so as to form an intramarginal series very dis- 

 tant from the costule. (Tah. CCLXXX.) — A7. in Linncea, 

 XX. p. 389 [not Pol. pteroides, Fr.). Phegopteris, Metten. 

 Phegopt.p. 9. 



Ilab. Columbia, Moritz, n. 291. Ocafia, Schlim, n. 368. Venezuela, Fendler, 

 n. 206. Oniotepec, Central America ?, C. Wright, in Ringold and Rodgers, U. S. 

 N. Pacif. Expl. Exp. (from Eainn), sterile. Fcuador, Montana de Canelos, 

 " 15-peiialis, stipite 4-pedali incluso, pendula vel inter rainos vicinos snbvolubilis, 

 piniiK 40-paria," Spruce, n. 5260. — A very peculiar and most distinct species, 

 and not apparently of any extensive geographical distribution. 



