I/O ANTROPHYUM. 



n. 974, 977. Brazil, Gardner, n. 145. New Granada, Moritz, n. 140, Linden, n. 194, 

 Fendler, n. 304. Guatemala, Vera Paz, Salvin. Andes of Quito, Jameson, n. 426. 

 — Fee justly observes that " one might consider this a Vittaria, with numerous 

 sori." 



24. A. lanceolatvm, Klfs. ; fronds sessile or nearly so firm- 

 membranaceous subpellucid a span to 14-16 inches long \-\ 

 an inch wide linear-lanceolate acuminate tapering downward 

 gradually from about the middle nearly to the very base of 

 the compressed and winged stipes distinctly costate through- 

 out, costa slender slightly prominent beneath, areoles about 

 four series between the costa and the margin parallel with 

 them, those nearest the costa and towards tlie base are the 

 most elongated, sori narrow of few readily deciduous capsules 

 but superficial or nearly so more or less reticulated and follow- 

 ing the course of the veins. — Klfs. En. Fil.p. 198 {noi BL). 

 Fee, Antroph. p. 50. Moore, Ind. Fit. Hemionitis, Linn. Sp. 

 PL p. 1535 {excl. syn. of Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 20) . Schk. Fil. p. 6. 

 t. 6 and 18. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 127. Antrophyum Feci, 

 Schaffn. in Fee, Jme Mem. FiL Nouv. p. 42. /. 22./. 1. 



Hab. West Indies, Swartz, Menzies, L. Guilding, C. Wright, n. 776 (accord- 

 ing to Eaton, but my specimens seem to he a young state of A. lineatum), Purdie, 

 Linden, n. 1397. New Granada, Moritz, n. 140. Mexico, Schaffner (smaller 

 and more lanceolate, A. Fcei, Schaffn.). Guatemala, Vera Paz, Salvin (same 

 form as the preceding). — This has very much the aspect of ^. lineatum, but the 

 fructification is quite different ; here scarcely sunk at all, and in no long-continued 

 straight lines. 



8. Vittaria, Sm. 



(Hook. Gen. Fil. tab. LXVIII. B. Tseniopsis, /. Sm. 

 Moore. Teeniopteris, Hook. Gen. Fil. tab. LXVI. B. 

 Haplopteris, Pr., Hook. Gen. Fil. tab. CXX. D. [copied 

 from Presl). 



Sori very long, linear, continuous, simple, lying in a groove 

 at the very margin of the frond or near the margin and pa- 

 rallel with it on the under side, and then generally more su- 

 l^erficial. Involucre none, unless the lips of the soriferous 

 furrow can be considered such. — Fronds simple, linear, often 

 very much elongated and drooping, subcoriaceous, distinctly 

 or scarcely costate. Veins simple, pinnated, often obscure, 

 sometimes combined at the apex. 



It is often very difficult, especially in the dried state, to see if the sori are 

 strictly marginal or intramarginal on the under side, and I cannot but think that 

 Fee has wisely united Tceniopsis, J. Sm., with Vittaria ; and my TcBniopteris is 

 undoubtedly identical with Teeniopsis. Here again, as m Antrophyum, I have 



