LOPHODIUM ULIGINOSUM. 163 



f LLOYD'S FERN. 



Genus. — Lophodium. (See page 186). 



Species. — Uliginosum. Caudex tufted : vernation simply 

 circinate : fronds erect, rigid, linear-lanceolate, of two kinds : 

 fertile fronds pinnate : the pinnte also pinnate : pinnules acute, 

 with a deep sinus at their base : barren shorter and broader, 

 pinnate : pinnse scarcely pinnate : the pinnules very broad, ob- 

 tuse, adnate or de current. 



Polypodium cristatum, Linn. jSp. PL 1551, ad partem. 

 Polystichum spinulosum, var. uliginosum (A. Braun), Doll, 



Rhein. Flor. 17, 18. (Vide Phytol. iii. 101). 

 Lastrea uliginosa, Newm. Phytol. iii. 679. 

 Lastrea cristata, ^. uliginosa, Moore, Phytol. iv. 149, Handb. 



115. 

 Lastrea cristata, P. Bab. 410. 



Aspidium spinulosum, a. Hook, and Am. 571. " The plant 

 under the name of L. uliginosa in the Eoyal Gardens, 

 corresponds with our A. spinulosum, a." — Hook, and 

 Am. I. c. 

 Lophodium uliginosum, Netvm. Phytol. iv. 371, Aj)p. xix. 

 The first notice of this fern which I have seen is in Doll's 

 ' Rhenish Flora,' pp. 17 and 18, but I believe it to be copied 

 from a prior work or a MS. of Professor A. Braun. Both these 

 authors are citfed by Philip Wirtgen, in his ' Cryptogamic Vas- 

 culares of Rhenish Prussia,' published at Bonn in 1847, a de- 

 tailed notice of which work is given in the ' Phytologist ' (iii. 

 98), whence I extract the following : — " Polystichum spinulo- 

 sum, b, uliginosum, A. Br. Stipes rather short, with few, scat- 

 tered, broadly ovate, short-pomted, brown-3reUow scales ; frond 



