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muscosum, Kze. in Linncea, ix. p. 29 [tiot Siv.). "Plum. Fil. 

 p. \20.t. 139?" {Fee). 



Hab. Martinique and St. Domingo, Plumier. Brazil, Vau/hier. Pern, Pain- 

 payaco, Poeppig. Conliabon Mountains, Dominica, Imray, n. 101. — I have no 

 authoritative s[)ecimen of this species ; but I possess two sterile fronds from 

 Dominica which seem to accord sufficiently witli Fee's description. It appears 

 to me a doubtful species, yet .Mr. Moore has brought forward a number of syno- 

 nyms vvhich he refers to it. My sterile fronds are 8-11 inches long, IJ-lj- inch 

 iu diameter, quite, but not thin,- membranaceous. 



77' A. (Elaphoglossatn) Gardneri, Fee; caudex short sul)- 

 repent or quite erect towards the thickened apex and tiiere 

 ferrugineo-paleaceous with broad ovato-hmceolate softciHated 

 scales, stipites 1 4-2 inches long 4-6 inches of the aterile 

 fronds, squarrose with lax patent ovate piloso-cihated and 

 suhlaciniated scales mixed with smaller and more appressed 

 ones; A'/e/v7(' fronds 4 to nearly 6 inches long |-1 inch broad 

 very firm coriaceo-submembranaceous eliiptico-oblong very 

 obtuse at both extremities or rarely subacute at the base, 

 above subglabrous nearly destitute of scales beneath sparsely 

 yet conspicuously stellato-squamulose with very minute ru- 

 fous scales a little larger and more copious on the costa, veins 

 manifest elevated ; fertile fronds 4-5 inches long overtopping 

 the sterile ones 4-5 lines wide linear-oblong obtuse. — Fee, 

 Acrost. p. 55. /. 15. /. 3 [small specimen). Elaphoglossum, 

 Moore. E. intermedium, Brack. Fd. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 69. 



Hab. Stems and branches of trees, Organ Mountains, Brazil, Gardner, n. 93 ; 

 same locality, Brackenridge. — Brackenridge's plant is from the same locality as 

 Gardner's, and, I can hardly doubt, is the same ])lant. It is true he does not 

 speak of the upper side of the frond as denuded of scales, but I suspect that iu 

 a younger state our plant would be scaly al)ove. The under side is rather dotted 

 with minute scales than paleaceous or cliafl'y. 



78. A. (Elaphoglossum) Orbignyanuin, Fee ; "fronds ol)- 

 longo-liuear ; sterile ones acute at each extremity clothed 

 above with appressed papyraceous silvery scales beneath 

 densely squamose with fulvous lacerated laxly iml^ricated 

 uniformly coloured scales, stipes long canaliculate scaly ; 

 fertile ones narrower the margin undulated densely clothed 

 with lacerated scales having a central rufous dot." — Fee, 

 Acrost. p. 56. /. 13. /. 2. Elaphoglossum, Moore. 



Hab. Mexico, D' Orbigng. — The figure represents a large Fern, densely squa- 

 mose; sterile with a stipes 16 inches long, frond nearly H foot long. If inci\ 

 wide ; fertile stipes 8 inches long, frond 15 inches long, 1^ inch wide. " Easily 

 recognized by its scales, tliose on the ujjper side of the sterile fronds close-pressed, 

 e.vcessively thin, as it were papyraceous, and silvery, those on the under side are 

 imbricated, oval-lanceolati^, de'chiqupteex. a little deeper in colour towaids the 

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