Portion of young Frond— upper side, 



POLYPOmUM VACCmirOLIUM. 



Langsdorff and Fischer. Kunze. Willdenow. 

 Eaddi. Kaulfuss. Sprengel. Chamisso. 



PLATE XLT. A. 



Pohjpodmm lagopodioides, 



" huxifolium, 



Goniophlehium vaccinifoUum 

 Marginaria vaccinifolia, 



" serpens, 



Craspedaria vaccinifolia, 

 " lagopodioides, 



Desvaijx. Jacquin'. 



Op Gakbens. 



J. Smith. Mooee & Houlston. 



Peesl. 



Peesl. 



Link. 



Pee. 



Polypodium — Polypody. 



Vaccinifolium — Whortle-berry leaved. 



In the Section Goniophlebium of Authors. 



This interesting diminutive species is deserving of extended 

 cultivation. When properly managed, it becomes a conspicuous 

 object in the Fern house. Those dwarf species, of which the 

 present Fern, and Polypodium piloselloides, figured in Plate 

 XXXII, are examples, appear to flourish best when allowed to 

 creep up the trunk of a decaying tree; if therefore a portion of 



