98 POLYrODlUM PILOSELLOIDES. 



In the Section Gontophlebium of Authors. 



This NijjhoholusAookm^ plant is amongst the more diminu- 

 tive of our exotic Ferns, and is an interesting little species when 

 well grown, and diversified with both barren and fertile fronds. 



A native of the West Indies, Cayenne, Brazil, and Madagascar. 



It was introduced into the Hoyal Gardens, Kew, in the 

 year 1793. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Like the Niphoholus tribe, the fertile and sterile fronds differ 

 from each other both in size and form. The fertile fronds are 

 linear-oblong, being decurrent at the base; they are simple, 

 hairy, and vary from two to three inches in their length. The 

 sterile fronds are also simple, hairy, somewhat ovate in form, 

 decurrent at the base, and vary from one to two inches in 

 length. 



Colour of the fronds pale green, articulated upon a thin 

 wiry-looking creeping rhizoma. 



Sori uniserial, being placed in a tuft of narrow scales. 



Polypodium piloseUoides is easily cultivated. Best known as 

 GoniopMeMwn piloseUoides, amongst Fern growers. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth; and to 

 Mr. Lamb, gardener to Francis Wright, Esq., of Osmaston Manor, 

 near Ashbourne, for plants of this species; and to the former 

 gentleman, and to Mr. Sim, of the Foot's Cray Nursery, Kent, 

 for abundance of fronds. 



It is in the catalogues of Messrs. Veitch, Jun., of Exeter; 

 Sim, of Foot's Cray; Masters, of Canterbury; Booth and Son, 

 of Hamburgh; and, A. Henderson, of Pine-apple Place. 



The illustration is from a plant grown by Mr. Sim. 



