

Portion of mature Frond — under side. 



POLYPODIUM PHEGOPTERIS. 



LlNN/EUS. LiGHTFOOT. HUDSON. WITHERING. SmITH. 



Macray. Francis. Newman. Pratt. 



Hooker and Arnott. Moore and Houlston. Kunze. 



Link. Presl. Schkuhr. Babington. Bolton. 



SOWERBY. WiLLDENOW. 

 PLATE XXIX. 



Folypodium latehrosum, Salisbtjht. 



Polypodium phego^Aeris, Bolton. 



Phegopteria polypodioides, Fee. 



Polystichmn phegopterh, * E,oth. 



iMstrea phegopteris, Bort. ^EWiiAisr. 



Gymnocarpium phegopieris, Newman. 



Aapidium Thelypteru, E. Smith. 



Polypodium connectile, Michatjx. 



Polypodium — Polypody. Phegopteris — The Beech Fern. 



The Beech Fern of some, and the Sun Fern of others, is. a 

 well-marked British species, and easily recognised by the lowest 

 pair of pinnae bejing separated from the remainder — hanging 

 downwards at about an angle of forty-five degrees, whilst the 

 remainder are inclined upwards. 



Its usual habitation is a damp wood, or in the neighbourhood 

 of a waterfall. 



A native of France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Altai 

 Mountains, Lake Baikal, Kamtschatka, Unalaska, Algeria, Lap- 

 land, United States, England, Scotland, the Islands of Shetland 



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