510 POLYPODIUSI. 



rather reduced; texture thin, moderately firm ; sw/accj dull-green, everywhere 

 finely gi-ey-pubescent ; veins 20-30-juj?ate, fine, immersed, subpinnate ; sori 

 l-serial, terminal on lowest anterior branch of groups. — Fmrn. FU. Mem. p. 77- 



Hab. Mexico, Bowgeau, 3149. 



198*. P. segregatum, Baker ; rhizome wide-creeping, as thick as a quill ; scales 

 dense, linear, brown, adpressed ; st. 6-8 in., slender, brown-black, nearly naked ; 

 fr. lanceolate, 6-9 in. i., 3-3J in. br., simply pinnate ; pinnae 16-20-jugate, 

 patent, very distant, linear, bluntish, obscurely repand, l|-2 lin. br., narrowed at 

 base, lowest not reduced ; texture subcoriaceous ; surfaces dull-green, the lower 

 with minute scattered lepidote scales ; veins obscure, immersed, 8-12-jugate, 

 forked j sori medial, distant, terminal on anterior branchlets. 



Hab. Andes of Quito, Jameson, — Intermediate between iporadolepU and temdfolmm. 



199*- Mettenius and Kuhn, Linnsea, 36. p. 137, separate from plebeium as a 

 species under the name of P. Fraseri, a plant from Ecuador with larger sori and 

 larger fimbriated lepidote scales, which is also distinguished in J. Smith's 

 Herbarium as P. Matthewsii, MSS. 



199*. P, BernouilUi, Baker ; rhizome 1 lin. thick, firm, wide-creeping, clothed 

 with large lanceolate pale-brown scales ; St. 1-2 in., grey, slender, clothed with 

 adpressed broad scales ; fr. lanceolate, 6-9 in. 1., 16-18 lin.. br., simply pinnate ; 

 ■pinnx 40-60-jugate, linear, repand, 1 lin. br., narrowed at base on lower side and 

 gradually to a point, not contiguous, those of the lower half of the frond slightly 

 deflexed ; texture subcoriaceous, not rigid ; lower surface densely clothed with 

 minute fimbriated pale-brown lepidote scales, upper nearly naked ; veins obscure, 

 immersed, simple ; sori 6-8-jugate, filling up the whole space between the edge 

 and midrib. 



Hab. Guatemala, BernouilU, HI. 



203*. P. longepinnulatum, Fourn. ; fr. lanceolate, 3 ft. 1., 1 ft. br., simply 

 pinnate ; rachis brown, minutely pubescent ; pinnm 30-35-jugate, ligulate, 

 \ in. br., subcrenate, acute, lower distant, narrowed at base ; surfaces bright- 

 green ; eostas villose, the rest glabrous ; veins in groups of 3 ; sori round, yellowish. 

 —Fil. Mex. p. 77. 



Hab. Mexico, Qaleoiti, 6510. 



204*. P. Quilleminianum, Fourn. ; rhizome as thick as a quill ; scales lan- 

 " ceolate, pale-brown ; st. | ft., slender, with scattered minute hairs ; fr. 1| ft. 1., 



8-10 in. br., oblong-lanceolate, simply pinnate ; pinnoe 15-20-jugate, ligulate, 



acute, serrate, upper close, equal at base, lower distant, 1 in. br., cuneate to a 

 " narrow adnate base, lowest much reduced ; surfaces pale-green ; eostas only 



slightly pilose ; veins in gToups of 4 ; sori close, uniserial near midrib. — Fil. 



Mix. p. 17. fig. 2. 



Hab. San Rafael, Mexico, Ouillemin. 



204*. P. amUguwm, Mett. ; rhizome wide-creeping, J in. thick ; scales dense, 

 firm, lanceolate, bright reddish-brown with a long cusp ; st. \ ft., grey, naked ; 

 fr. lanceolate, simply pinnate, 12-16 in. 1., 4-5 in. br. ; pinnce 30-jugate, patent, 

 linear, narrowed to a point, g in. br., equal at base, entire, lower nearly free, 

 shortened, deflexed ; rachis grey, downy ; texture membranous ; surfaces bright- 

 green, finely downy ; veins pellucid, 3-furcate ; sori 20-30-jugate, close, sub- 

 costular. — Kuhn, Linn. 36. p. 134. 



Hab. Venezuela, Fendler, 254. —Between soroiium andi suhpetiolaiii,m. 



