192 THE Lire HISTORY OF 
Synopsis of the North American Species of Vittaria* 
Stipes green; 1-2 cm. long, margins recurved when d 
vus arg paraphyses enteriform ; scales papillose, serrate. 
en cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, pendent. V. lineata. 
0-15 cm., narrowly Mosi; erect. V. graminifolia, 
"etn bein ; scales ei . V. intramarginalis, 
Stipes green or yellow, 10-15 cm. long ; margins revolut 
Spores lea ed mastoid- claviform, dits smooth, entire. 
V. filifolia, 
Spores tetrahedral? ; paraphyses enterifori?: ; scales papillose, aristate, serrate. 
Deppeana, 
Stipes green, short; leaves 4-16 c 
Spores tetrahedral ; en سوت‎ ; ; scales dentate. V. scabrida. 
Spores ; paraphyses ?; scales aristate, oes entire. 
^ dimorpha. 
Stipes brown or black, 2-9 cm. long; margins flat; spores eee 
ves 20-30 cm. long; paraphyses cyathiform. 
Leaves 7-9 mm. wide; rhizome creeping. V. Gardneriana. 
V. remota. 
Leaves I meter long, 3-5 mm. wide ; ; paraphyses pyriform. V. stipitata. 
VITTARIA LINEATA (L.) J. E. Smith. 
Lingua cervina longissimus & angustissimis foliis. Plumier 
Fil. Am. 123. y. 143. 1705. 
Phyllitis lineata, graminis folio longissimo. Pet. Fil. 126. ۰ 
14. 1913, 
Pteris lineata L. Sp. Pl. 1073. 1 E, 
Vittaria lineata J. E. Smith, Mem. Acad. Roy. Sci. Turin. 5: 
413. 1793. 
V. lineata Swartz, Schrad. Journ. 2: 72. 1800; Syn. Fil. 
109. 1806. 
V. filiformis Cav. Praelect. Bot. 270, 671. 1801; Willd. Sp. 
Pl. 5: 405. 1801. 
V. angustifrons Michx. Flor. Bor. Am. 2: 26 
Bory. Itin. 2: 325. 1804. 
V. Schkuhrü Raddi, Fil. Bras. 5I. 
Taeniopsis lineata J. Smith, H 
I. 1803; non 
1819. 
ook. Journ. Bot. 4: 67. 1842. 
V. lineata Sw. Fée, Mem. Fam. Foug. 3: 17. 1851; Hook. Sp. 
Fil. 5: 180. 1864; Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil. 396. 1874; in part; 
— rA of N. Am. 1: 289, 1879; Sodiro, Crypt Vasc. 
* This synopsis is necessarily į 
y incomplete, o us 
and lack of knowledge of the types. en dienen emere 
