POLYPODIES 

 POLYPODIUM. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 55.) 



Jl OLYPODIUM DflYOPTERIS. (L.) Caudex long creeping branched more or less scaly, stipes a span to a foot or more 

 long very slender stramineous scaly below, fronds thin-membranaceous 5-6 inches and more long pentangular-deltoid tripartito-bipinnate 

 primary divisions long-petioled (especially the terminal one) deltoid, secondary pinnae mostly sessile l§-2 inches long oblong or ovato* 

 oblong rather obtuse deeply pinnatifid, sometimes again pinnate at their base, segments oval entire or the inferior ones pinnatifido- 

 serrate, veins forked, sori dorsal on the upper veinlet nearer the margin than the costule.— Hook Sp. FiL iv. 250.— Linn. Sp. PL 

 p. 1,555.— Engl. Bot. t. 61Q.—Sw. Syn % FiL p. 42.— Schk FiL t. 25.— Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 209.— Hook et Am. Br. FL ed. 8. p. 580. 

 — Ledeb. FL Alt. a, genninum j his /2 is P. Robertianum).— Hook Brit Ferns 4 ; — Phegopteris, Fee. — Metten. Phegopt. p< 9 ;— Polypod, 

 calcareum, Ph. ilT. Am. FiL ii. p. 639. 



Hab. Throughout Europe, N. India, Western Himalaya, Siberia, Japan, Greenland Northern United States, 



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