262 POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 



pinnae alternate subapproximate, primary triangular, secon- 

 dary broadly linear attenuated at tlie apex curved, pinnules 

 incised or nearly entire, segments generally obtuse nearly 

 glabrous on both sides finely ciliated, the collura (base of 

 stipes ?) and rachis densely paleaceous with lanceolato-linear 

 acute long and soft rufescent erect scales." — Anderss. En. PI. 

 Galap. fill Kongl. Svensk. Fregat. Eugen. Resa Omkr. Jord, 

 Bot.) part 11. p. 38. Hook. fit. En. PL Galap. [in Linn. 

 Trans, xx.) p. 16() ? 



Hab. Summit of the mountain, Charles Island, Galapagos, 4 «rfprsso?t, Darwin? 

 — My only specimen of this is from Dr. Amlersson, who, as myself, is doubtful if 

 it be identical with the P. palcaceum. Hook. fil. I may here observe that nei- 

 ther has Dr. Andersson nor myself had access to the new Ferns described by Dr. 

 Hooker, 1. c, and the specimens were not so good as could be wished : so that 

 Dr. Hooker is satisfied that much reliance cannot be placed on his brief charac- 

 ters. Poll/pod. ( Phegopt.J pleiosorus, Hook. fil. 1. c, is thus circumstanced, of 

 which only the apex of apparently a very large froud was preserved ; hence that 

 species is here omitted. 



205. P. (Phego]itens) punctatum, Sprvice ; caudex?, stipes 

 2-3 feet and more long thick as one's little finger glossy 

 brown in the lower half densely coarsely long black setoso- 

 squaraose (the same setiform scales are seen upon the rachis 

 and at the base of the costee but they appear to be soon 

 deciduous), frond very ample 5-6 feet and more long 

 firm-membranaceous dark bright green pellucido-punctate 

 glabrous below bipinnate, primary pinnae subopposite pe- 

 tioled 1-2 feet long 5-8 inches wide ovato-oblong acuminate 

 pinnated pinnatifid at the apex with copious horizontal sessile 

 oblong-lanceolate very numerous pinnae pinnatifid nearly 

 halfway to the rachis, lobes ovate obtuse entire, intermediate 

 primary pinnae of the frond equally long but narrower and 

 deeply nearly to the costa pinnatifid with spreading linear- 

 lanceolate segments 1-lf inch long \ inch wide sharply inciso- 

 pinnatifid a few only of the basal ones free but decurrent, 

 apex of the frond pinnatifid with segments as just described, 

 veins and veinlets pellucid, the latter mostly simple bearing 

 a dark-brown sorus on the back, one to each of the lesser lobes, 

 lobes or segments of the pinnules 3-5 on the larger ones. — 

 P. punctatum, Spruce, mst. 



Hab. Tarapota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 4719, and foot of Chimborazo, 

 Ecuadoi, in woods, alt. 3000 feet. — A very fine and distinct species, of which 

 Mr. Spruce says, " Filix pulcherrima csespitosa, 9-pedalis." 



206. P. (Phegopteris) canescens, Kze. Herb. ; " caudex ?, 



