44 A NEW POLYPODIUM FROM JAMAICA, 
Ononis spinosa Li. Tickenhall. 
Medicago lupulina L. 
Melilotus altissima Thuill. (M. ohne Willd.). By the tram- 
way at Tickenhall, me aged introduc 
Trifolium pratense L., T. repens L., T. proctmbons L., and T. 
dubium Sibth. (minus Suith). — p. aadion L. Scarce. A solitary 
plant found by m a hedge-bank on Pistern Hill; found also 
near the Tickenhall a. works by me, and He Mr. Bloxam at 
Calke . arvense L. Near Foremark, Blowa: 
Anthyllis Vulneraria L. ‘Ver scarce. For everal Seasons I 
otic 
second plant afterwards appeared, and the ese ret wonki anes 
we i 
Lotus cor ——— Dry pastures and rocky places, —L. major. 
Sides of ditches 
Vicia Mesut Koch, and V. tetrasperma Monch. « « Near Calke 
Abbey,” Blovam!—V. eracea L. Meadows.—V. sepium L. Bushy 
places.—V. angustifolia, var. Bobartii Forster. Dimminsdale, Calke. 
Lathyrus prate 3 Meadows. — L. macrorrhizus Wimm. 
Heathy banks ; BOT E 
(To be continued.) 
A NEW POLYPODIUM FROM JAMAICA. 
By J. G. Baxer, F.R.S. 
We have just received through Mr. Morris a new Polypodium 
from Jamaic ca, which, as Mr. Jenm man intends to publish shortly a 
now. tt was gathered by Mrs. Baker, wife of Capt. Baker, 
Ordnance Department, Nyssdsido, J amaica, now of cou es 
dium 
hasmum 
me short-creeping, only seen in a young acentitida, “Stipe 
rey in. long, winged down to the "hac furnished with a few small 
Sodienoar linear or lanceolate brown palew, tinged bright brown, 
as is also the rachis. Lamina a glabrous, simply 
pinnate, 6-8 in. long, 2 in, Poona at the base, moderately firm 
texture, green on both sur faces. Pinne 15-16- oa below ee 
chonely serrated, } in. br oad at the middle, the iosrest the laeieik. 
all but the lowest contiguous. Veins free, obscure, erecto- cing 
forked, ending in a knob distinctly within the m argin. Sori 
serial, a globose, distinctly immersed, 8-10-jugate in “the 
lower pin 
Alli my . P. vulyare and the Mexican P. fraternum and P. 
Martensti. - 
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