34 POLYPODIUM, § CRASPEDARIA. 



and 24 [venation very good). Goniophlebiuin, /. Sm. Cras- 

 pedaria, Fee. — Plum. Fit. t. 118. — Var. /3, moniliformis ; fronds 

 narrow linear moniliform from the copious sori projecting 

 beyond the margins. Polyp. Cayennense, Desv. Journ. Bot. 

 \\.p.257, Met ten. Poly pod. p. 93 . P. ciiiatum ?, JVilld.—\a.x. y, 

 uuriseta; fronds especially the fertile ones villous with long 

 aureo-ferruginous dense hair-like scales. P. aurisetum, Raddi, 

 Fit. Bras. p. 12. t. 23. f. 1, Metten. Polyp, p. 94. P. Margi- 

 naria, Pr. Craspedaria, Fee. Crasp. Gestasiana, Fee, 6me 

 Mem. Foug. Nouv. p. 15. t. 4./. 2. Polypod. piloselloides, 

 Raddi, Sijn. Fit. p. 46. P. tectum, Kaulf. 



' Hah. Tropical America, frequent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and in the 

 West Indian islands. — I think I am correct in referring the three forms to one 

 species. 



284. P. (Craspedaria) lycopodioides, Linn. ; caudex long 

 creeping or scandent clothed with ferruginous (at length 

 bleached) subulato-lanceolate densely imbricated scales, sti- 

 pites \-\ inch long, fronds scattered firm coriaceo-submem- 

 branaceous (sometimes sparsely scaly beneath near the costa) 

 petioled of two kinds ; sterile ones 2-4 inches long h- nearly 

 1 inch broad elliptical-oblong cuneate at the base obtuse ; 

 fertile ones 4-6 inches long ^-4 an inch wide linear-lanceo- 

 late obtusely acuminated subsinuate at the margin, sori copious 

 in two series on each side the costa but rather nearer to the 

 margin than to the costa, venation anastomosing so as to 

 form oblong areoles at and parallel with the costa sometimes 

 including short free veinlets and a second series of large ob- 

 lique areoles near the middle including anastomosing veinlets 

 (most copious on the sterile fronds) togetiier with the sorus 

 which is dorsal or rarely terminal or compital, the rest of the 

 areoles variable in size and shape and generally including 

 free veinlets. — Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1542. Stv. Syn. Fil. p. 25. 

 Metten. Polyp, p. 97. Pleopeltis, Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 19.3. 

 t. 7-f' 3 and 4 {good as to venation). Phlebodium, J. Sm. 

 Drynaria, Fee. Pol. vacciniifolium, Raddi, Fil. Bras. p. 13. 

 t. 23./. 2. Pleopeltis Corcovadense, Pr. Fil. t. 1 19.— Var. /3, 

 latifolia; sterile fronds shorter broader suborbicular often quite 

 sessile. Polyp, lagopodioides ?, Desv. Journ. Bot. vi. p. 259. 

 /. 40. P. Owariense ?, Desv. Journ. Bot. p. 258. — Var. 7, sa- 

 licifolia ; fronds linear-lanceolate sterile and fertile nearly 

 uniform. Polypod. salicifolium, JVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 149, and 

 Herb. Willd. n. 19603. Kl. in Linncea, xx. p. 493, sub Pol. 



