Puatr 61. 
WOODWARDIA. arzotata, Moore. 
Netted-veined Woodwardia. 
Woopwarpia (§ Lorinseria) areolata, Moore: caudex creeping, and, as well as 
the base of the elongated stipes, paleaceous; fronds dimorphous, a span to 
a foot long ; sterile ones subtriangular-ovate, membranaceous, deeply pinna- 
tifid (pinnate below); segments sixteen to twenty-five, lanceolate, horizon- 
tally patent, acute or obtuse, finely serrated, subsinuato-lobate, lowest ones 
or pinne petiolate; veins everywhere anastomosing ; fertile fronds ovato- 
lanceolate in circumscription, coriaceous, pinnate; pinne remote, linear; 
sori approximate, occupying nearly the whole under side of the pinne be- 
tween the costa and margin. 
Woopwarpta areolata. Moore, Index Fil. p. xiv. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 3. p. 10. 
AcrosticHum areolatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1526. Gron. Virg. p. 124. Amen. 
Acad, v. 1. p, 274. 
Woopwarpta angustifolia. Sm. in Act. Taur.v.5.p.411. Sw. Syn. Fil, p. 116, 
Gray, Man. of Bot. N.U. States, p.593. t. 10. f. 1, 2, 8 (excellent). Metten. 
Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips. p. 66. t. 6. f. 67. 
Woopwarpta onocleoides. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 416. 
Onociea nodulosa. Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 272. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 111. 
Woopwarpia Floridana. Schk. Fil. p. 103. ¢. 111. 
LoRInseRIA areolata. Pr, Epim. Bot. p. 72. Fée, Gen. Fil. p. 207. t.17 B. 
Has. Boggy places, and apparently throughout the United States ; most common 
in the south, but extending as far north as Massachusetts, chiefly near the 
coast. Unknown, or at any rate unnoticed, as yet, on the west side of the 
Rocky Mountains, or in any part of California or British Columbia.—Cul- 
tivated at Kew, in the open border. 
Woodwardia is one of the finest of the genera of Ferns, and 
of which six species are known to us, all, I believe, restricted to 
the northern hemisphere, but there found in Europe, Asia, Africa, 
and America. ‘These I have ventured, in my ‘Species Filicum,’ 
to divide into three groups, which Presl was disposed to consider 
so many distinct genera. 
Pate 61 represents a caudex and stipes together with a barren and fertile 
frond,—natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of a barren frond, showing the anastomos- 
ing venation. 2. Portion of a fertile pinna, seen from above. 3. Portion of a 
fertile pinna, seen from beneath :—magnijied. 
APRIL lst, 1862. 
