13 g F I L I C E S. 



Var. /?. pinnis reraotis; soris fere biserialibtis. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands ; frequent. Vicinity of the Bay of Islands, 

 New Zealand. /?. Feejee Islands. 



In the Feejee plant, the pinnce are remote, and sometimes an inch 

 or II inches apart, with a nearly double series of sori, which, in a few 

 instances, also occurs in some of the New Zealand specimens ; but 

 those from the latter country and the Sandwich Islands, in all other 

 essential particulars, correspond with the figure and description of 

 Gaudichaud. 



49. WOOD WARD I A, Sm. 



1. WOODWAKDIA RADICANS, Sw. 

 Woodwardia radicans, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 117 ; Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 418. 



Hab. Island of Madeira. 



2. Woodwardia Chamissoi. 



W. stipite hinc canaliculate basi paleaceo ; frondibus erectis rigidis coriar 

 ceis pinnatis; pinnis sessilibus subalternis patentibus pinnatipartitw, 

 laciniis lanceolatis acuminatis subrepandis spinulososerratis, sinubus 

 rotundatis. 



Woodwardia radicans, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 163, ex parte; Hook. & Arn. Bot. 

 Beech. Voy. p. 162, non Sw. 



Hab. Monterey and San Francisco; also in mountains, on the 

 upper waters of the Sacramento River, California. 



Stipe about a foot long, round, with a single groove in front, and 

 scattered raised points on its surface, clothed with long brown palece 

 ■at the base. Fronds erect, 2 to 3 feet long, in circumscription oblong- 

 lanceolate, rigid, coriaceous, pinnate, the point deeply pinnatifid, the 



