180 VITTARIA. 



et transparente ; en outre, lessporangiastres sont claviformes, tandis qu'ilsont I'as- 

 pect de rubaiis tortilles dans le V. Uneata." 



** Sj)orangiasfcrs cucuUiform. 



10. V. sarmentosa, Fee; "fronds graminiform narrow- 

 linear plane striated opaque rather strict fasciculate narrower 

 at the base, sori continuous very narrow striaeform remote 

 from the margin, caudex surculiform clothed with narrow 

 acuminate dentate scales/' Fee, Vittar.p. 19. "V. gramini- 

 folia, Klfs. En. Fil. p. 192.'' 



Hab. " Trees, Cape of Good Hope, Mundl and Maire. Natal, Gueinzius — 

 " Cette espece differe du V. tenera, par des sporangiastres rubanes et non cyathi- 

 formes. Cest par I'aspect que prennent ces memes corps qu'oii peut etablir quel- 

 ques-uns des caracteres qui le suparent du V. lineata." 



*** Sporangiasters intestinccform. 11, 12. 



11. V. lineata, Sw. ; "fronds fasciculate rugoso-striate nar- 

 row-linear, the margins reflexed and thus canaliculate at 

 length nearly flat and striated, sori continuous near the 

 margins frequently concealed by the convolute margins of 

 the frond, caudex bearing fasciculated fronds, scaler lan- 

 ceolate long acuminate toothed at the margin." Fee, — Sw. 

 Syn. Fil. p. 109. fVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 404. Schk. Fil. p. 93. 

 /. 101.1^. Fee, Vittar. p. 17- Tseniopsis, J. Sm. Pteris, 

 Linn. V. Schkurii, Raddi. V. angustifrons, Mich, [not Bory). 

 V. filiformis, Cav. Sw. Willd. — Var, /3, graminifolia, Fee, I. c. 

 p. 18. Teeniopsis graminifolia, J. Sm. in Hook. Bot. Journ. iv. 

 jj. 67. Vittaria sarmentosa, Ruiz, Hcenk. 



Hab. "Trunks of trees, Brazil, South Carolina, Florida {Captain Le Conte), 

 French Guiana, Jamaica, Antilles, and various tropical regions of America. 

 ;8. Peru, Brazil, and probably in various countries of tropical America." — " Le 

 V. Uneata est I'espcce la plus anciennement connue, et celle sur laquelle il existe 

 le plus de vague et d'incertitude dans les descriptions.* Nous la croyons exclu- 

 sivement americaine." Such are the unsatisfactory conclusions at which the 

 most laborious of modern pteridologists has arrived respecting a Vittoria which 

 was supposed to have had its specific prototype in almost all the warm parts of 

 the globe, and I fear many other Vittarice are not more satisfactorily defined. 

 1 must here enumerate numbered specimens, most of whicli myself and others 

 have been in the habit of considering V. lineata : — Brazil, Gardner, n. 72, 146, 

 1327, Sellow (" V. squamosa, Kl., which M. Fee is disposed to refer to V. sca- 

 Irida), Spruce, n. 4 ; Guiana, R. Schomburgk, w. 354, Appun, n. 1G2 ; Columbia, 

 Cuming, n. 1202, Schlim, n. 396, 852, Fendler,n. 258, Moritz, n. 14)^; Nicara- 

 gua, C. Wright; Ecuador, /a/wesow, h. 357 ; Cuba, Otto, n. 302, C. Wright, n. 



* " Nous regardons coinme ctant le V. Uneata toute espece qui nait en touffe 

 sur une souche pen disjjosee a progresser, ayant des lames convolutees en leurs bords 

 par la desiccation, et prenant alors une apparence canaliculee, des sporotheces 

 marginaux replies en dedans et des sporangiastres rubanes. Aucune (autre) espece 

 ne reiuiit ces caracteres." Fee. 



