iJI ENUMERATION OF CULTIVATED PEEKS. 



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1-2^ feet tigh, submembraneous. Prma/ry veins cost»form, 

 transversely combined and compound anastomoBingi with free 

 veinlets tei-minating in areoles. Receptacles punctiform, com- 

 pital. Bori round or by confluence unequal oblong, oblique 

 biserial or in-egular, naked. 



1. D. 



plantaginea, /. Sm. in Beemcmn's Bot. Voy. Herald. 

 Polypodium plantagineum, Jjmm. ; Jacq. Coll. t. 3,/. 1 ; 

 '{Plmn. FiL 1. 128). Aspidium plantageneum, Qrish. ; 

 Hooh. 8p. Fil. {in pa/ii). Pleopeltis plantaginea, 

 Moore, Ind. — ^West Indies. 



62. DICTYOPTERIS, Fresl (im pari). 



Vernation fasciculate, decumbent or snb-ereot. Fronds 

 coriaceous, deltoid, bipinnatifid or bipinnate, 3—4 feet high ; 

 ultimate segments or pinnules sub-entire or sinuous-pinnatifid. 

 Vei/K^ costaeform ; venules and veinlets anastomosing (rarely 



Genus 62. — Portion of TertUe pinnaj ditto barren and fertile. No. 1 . 



few free, excurrent), forming oblique, somewhat elongated 

 areoles, the costal ones transversely elongated. Beoeptaales 

 medial or compital. 8ori round, large, iiTeguiar, sometimes 

 crowded near the margin, naked. 



1. D. irregnlarls, Presl. Polypodium irregulare, Presl. Bel. 

 Hcsnk. t. 4,/. 3. — Bast Indies, Malayan and Philippine 

 Islands. 



