Puate 382. 
WOODSIA (Hymenocystis) ponysticnorss, Bud. 
Polystichum-like Woodsia. 
Var. 8. Vurroutt. 
Woopsia (Hymenocystis) polystichoides ; densely czespitose, a span rarcly to 
a foot high; caudex scarcely any; stipites short, pale-castaneous, glossy, 
scaly ; fronds subcoriaceo-membranaceous, opaque, lanceolate, pinnate ; 
pinne patent, numerous, approximate, sessile, six to seven lines long, lan- 
2 ee obtuse, cuneato-truncate at the base, auriculate above, more or less 
villose, or sparsely subulato-paleaceous, the margins entire or sinuato-pinna- 
tifid ; costa indistinct; veins immersed, simple or forked, free, soriferous 
at the apex within the margin; involucre of four to five long-ciliated, im- 
bricated, membranaceous scales, inserted beneath the sorus, at first orbicular, 
enclosing several capsules, rachis testaceous, glossy, partially and decidu- 
ously scaly. 
a. nudiuscula ; fronds subglabrous; pinne nearly entire at the margin. 
Woopvsia (Hymenocystis) polystichoides. Eaton, Ferns of Wright’s Herb. of 
Ringgold and Rodgers, U. 8. Expl. Exped. in Proc. of Acad. of Arts and Se. 
1859, p. 110. Hook. in Second Cent. of Ferns, t. 2. 
B. Veitchii; fronds very villous on both sides; pinne nearly entire at the 
margin. (PuLaTE 32. Fig. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7.) 
Woopsia Veitchii. Hance, MS. in Herb. nostr. 
y. sinuata ; pinnz broader, more obtuse, lobato-pinnatifid. (PLate 32. Fig. 3.) 
Hab. Japan. Var. a. Hakodadi, Ringgold and Rogers, Wilford, n. 1021. Var. 
B. Hakodadi, Veitch. Var. y. Hakodadi and Manchouria, Wilford, n. 
1098. Ta-lien-kwan, Yellow Sea, Burnie. 
We had scarcely figured the normal state of this plant, de- 
rived from specimens sent to me by Mr. Eaton, in our ‘Second 
Century of Ferns,’ above quoted, than we received further spe- 
cimens from our collector, Mr. Wilford; and, more recently, a 
very villous variety which Mr. Veitch had presented to our bota- 
nical friend Mr. Hance, at Whimpoa, taken from a case of living 
plants that were dispatched to Messrs. Veitch’s nursery at 
Chelsea ; so that we may now consider the plant as introduced 
to our collections, and thus entitled to a place in-a work of 
“Garden Ferns.” A portion of these here figured were sent to 
us by Mr. Hance as a new species of Woods¢a, which in his MSS. 
auGusT Ist, 1861]. 
