I'OLYSTICHUM ANGULAEE. 117 



t WILLDENOWS FEEN. 



Genus. — Polystichum, (see page 103). 



Species. — Angulaee. Cauclex tufted : stipes one-third as 

 long as the frond, densely clothed with large, red, chaffy scales : 

 frond drooping, graceful, broad-lanceolate, lax, feathery, piii- 

 nate : pinnse very numerous, linear, distant, pinnate : pinnules 

 distinct, stalked, often distant, auricled at the base, rounded at 

 the apex, serrated, spined. 



Ssnwnpj^s, Jfipm, h. 



Polypodium aculeatum, Light/. Fl. Scot. 675 ; Huds. Fl. Ang. 



459. 

 Aspidium angulare, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 257; Sm. E. F. iv. 291, 



E. B. S. 2776 ; Mack. Fl. Hib. 339. 

 Polystichum angulare, Newm. N. A. 25, F. 173 ; Bab. 409. 



For the geographical distribution see page 113. 



The radicles and caudex present no characters by which I 

 can distinguish them from those of the preceding. The stipes 

 is distinct, about one-fourth as long as the frond, and densely 

 clothed with large reddish scales. The plant appears to jprefer 



