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creeping filiform clothed with acuminated ferruginous scales, 

 stipites remote sparsely paleaceous; sterile fronds 1-3 

 inches long \ of an inch wide oblongo-lanceolate oljtuse 

 bluntly subcrenato-lobate sparsely scaly on the surface at- 

 tenuated below into a stipes equal in length or shorter, cosia 

 slender, veins few remote erecto-patent forked below the 

 middle, their clubbed apices not extending to the margin ; 

 fertile fronds less than half the size of the fertile ones 

 elliptico-oblong entire 3-4 times shorter than the stipes. — 

 Bory, in Fee, Acrost. p. 48. ^ 18. /. 2. Hook. Ic. PL t. 992 

 {or Cent, of Ferns, t. 92). Elaphoglossum, Moore. Acrost. 

 trajisefolium, UHermin. ms. in Herb. Hook. Elaphoglossum, 

 Moore. 



Hah. Tropical America : Guadeloupe, L" Ilerminier, n. 7G, in Herb, nostr, ; 

 on Mount Couliabon, Dominica, lir. Imruij, n. 2.3G ; Ecuador, Quito, Jameson; 

 Chimborazo, alt. 300 feet. Spruce, n. 5G82. — A small but very distinct species ; 

 and, as Fee observes, with the habit of Polypodium serpens of Swartz. 



II. PoLYLEPiPE^, Fe'e. — Fronds more or less scaly or setoso-squamose. 

 Sp. 59-94. 



A. Fronds ovate or oval- lanceolate. 59, GO. 

 59. A. (Elaphoglossum) Lindenii, Bory ; caudex stout 

 thicker than a man's finger horizontal or ascending clothed at 

 the apex with small black shining subulate scales and a dense 

 cluster of slender brown flexuose and often spreading sti- 

 pites 4-6 inches or a span long (nearly uniform in the fertile 

 and sterile fronds) setoso-paleaceous with dark-brown subu- 

 late deciduous spreading scales; sterile fronds firm subco- 

 riaceo-membranaceous subtranslucent 1-4 inches long \-\h 

 inch wide elliptical or oval or subovate obtuse or bluntly 

 acuminulate shortly and obtusely cuneate at the base 

 sparsely on the surface and fringed at the margin with rather 

 long subulate hair-like deciduous scales, costa very slender, 

 veins evident erecto-patent distant simple or forked, the 

 apices clubbed and terminating within the margin ; fertile 

 fronds similar to the sterile ones but much smaller rarely 1 

 inch long. — Bory, in Fee, Acrost. p. 48. Elaphoglossum, 

 Moore. Acrost. blepharodes, Fee, Acrost. p. 48. t. 24. /. 3 ? 

 A. crinitum. Mart, and Gal. Fit. Mex. p. 25? {not Sw.). 

 Elaphoglossum, iV/oore .? Liebni. Fil. Mex. p. 16, in Herb, 

 nostr. 



Ilab. Coylon (according to Moore). Mexico, Linden, alt. 970;) feet, ii. j'2, 

 lAebmanii, in. Herb, noslr., alt. 9000-10,000 feet. Caiaccas, Fiinc/c, n. h'u]. 

 Venezuela, Olfo, alt. 7500 feet. Ecuador, Cotopaxi, alt. 13,000 feet, and cave* 



