Portion of Piuna of mature Frond — under side. 



POLYPODIUM DREPANUM. 



Lowe. 



PLATE XXXIV. VOL. IT. 



Polystichum drepanum, 



Aspidium " 



Phegopteris " 



Peesl. Mooee and Houlston. 



Smith. 



swaetz. schkuhe. 



J. Smith. 



Polypodium — Polypody. 



Drepanum — Sickle. 



The Polypodium drepanum is so exactly like a Polystichtwi 

 in its habit and general appearance, that botanists have been 

 induced to place it among those species, on the authority of 

 Swartz, that it has an indusium, which is cordate-subrotund in 

 form, and very minute. However the Rev. W. W. Spicer has 

 studied it in its own country, growing wild; and Mr. Joseph 

 Henderson, of Wentworth, has also carefully examined cultivated 

 plants, and both these gentlemen have failed to discover an 

 indusium. Mr. Smith, of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in his 



