266 POLYPODIUM, § PHEGOPTERIS. 



120, Brackenridge, n. 31. Peru, Mafheivs, n. 1830. Venezuela, Fendler, n. 

 205. — Var. /8. Jamaica, frequent, Cuba, C. Wright, n. 831. Ecuador, Spruce 

 (no number). — The two forms, which by some are considered distinct species, 

 present many intermediate states. Both are fairly represented by Schkuhr. 



211. P. (Phegopteris) jmJlidum, Brack.; " Ccespitose, sti- 

 pites scabrous paleaceous, frond ample tripinnate, pinnules 

 linear-oblong obtuse adnate decurrent, lower ones pinnatifid, 

 superior ones crenate, segments ovato-oblong obtuse recurved 

 at the margin toothed at the apex, rachis costa and veins 

 paleaceo-hirsute, veins dichotomous, sori small numerous 

 near the margin/' Brack. Fil. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 18. Ne- 

 phrodiura (Lastrea) tQwe.r\c?L\x\e, Hook, supra, p. 142 [at least 

 as concerns the locality of the Society Islands) . 



Hab. Tahiti, Society Islands, Brackenridge, Bidwill, Nightingale. — I fear this 

 will not prove distinct from the very variable Polyp, tenericaide. Wall, (now gene- 

 nerally referred to Lastrea). It is certainly the same as Nightingale's and Bid- 

 will's plants, which I had no hesitation in placing under that species at p. 142 of 

 this volume. 



212. P. (Phegopteris) wemora/e. Brack. ; " csespitose, sti- 

 pites glabrous terete paleaceous at the base, fronds lax bi- 

 pinnate, pinnae ascending, lovi'er ones distant, pinnules ob- 

 long-lanceolate attenuate sessile decurrent, upwards deeply 

 pinnatifid, segments linear obtuse serrated, rachis pubescent 

 on the upper side, costa and forked veins villous on both 

 sides, sori small solitary at the base of the teeth." Brack. 

 Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 16. 



Ilab. Tahiti, Society Islands, and Tutuila, Samoan \i\SinA?,, Brackenridge ; Island 

 of Otaroha, Cuming, n. 140 a7id 1417. — My specimens from Cuming (noticed at 

 p. 143 of this volume, referred to N. (Lastrea) tenuicaule) are identical with a fine 

 specimen I have received from Brackenridge : but I must confess that, except in 

 the more lax and membranaceous fronds, I do not see how it differs from the 

 preceding, P. pallidum. 



21.3. p. (Phegopteris) crinale, Hook, et Arn. ; "plant from 

 4-6 feet high, caudex tufted, stipites tufted thick sulcated 

 densely paleaceous," fronds quite coriaceous rigid bi-tripin- 

 nate, pinnae all horizontally patent, primary ones probably a 

 span and more long, lowest ones semiovate (broadest on the 

 inferior half), their lowest pinnae again pinnate, the secon- 

 dary pinnae oblong deeply almost to the costa pinnatifid ob- 

 tuse, segments and ultimate pinnules ^ of an inch long oval 

 or oblong entire or crenato-lobate very obtuse, veinlets once 

 or twice forked in the upper portion of the plant one or two 

 veinlets only bearing sori at the superior base of the seg- 



