14'6 POLYPODIUM SQUAMULOSUM. 



I know nothing of the fertile fronds; the sterile ones are 

 simple, erect in growth, and oblong-elliptical in form, coriaceous, 

 attenuated at the base, and being articulated on a densely 

 scaly rhizoma, the scales wrapping over each other. In the 

 young state they are nearly white, becoming pale brown when 

 more mature. The rhizoma is branched and creeping. 



Length of frond from two to three inches; colour a dull 

 heavy green. 



The frond is prettily veined, like Polypodmm venosurn, but 

 being less transparent the veins are not so plainly visible. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth, for a 

 nice plant of P. squamulosum. 



It is in the Fern Catalogues of R. Parker, of Holloway; 

 Booth and Son, of Hamburg; and Kennedy, of Covent Garden. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



END OF vol,. J. 



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