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sub. sp. A. Moritzianum, Klotzsch. — Rootstock stout upright densly 

 paleaceous ; ^tipites l|-2 ft. 1. clothed like the rootstock at the base and 

 fibrillose upwai ds, and is also the rachis and costse ; fronds ft. 1. 1| 



1 j ft. br , oblong, suddenly and shortly acuminate at the top ; pinnse 

 spreading horizontally, contiguous above, distant or subdistant below, 

 sessile, linear— oblong. — A. Moritizianum, Kunze. A. ordinatum, Kl. in 

 Linnae 20 p. 361. Polysticlmm giganteum, Fee. 



Common on the banks of streams in forests at 4,000-6,000 ft. altitude ; 

 also ascribed to Trinidad. A much larger plant than the type, of a 

 uniform width from the base upwards, shoitly or abruptly but finely 

 acuminated at the the top, and densely paleaceous. The auricle forms 

 a free segment in the basal pinnu'es and the vestiture of the rachis and cos- 

 tse sticks to the surface of drying paper like cobweb. Polypodium rigi- 

 dum, Hook & Grev. Icon. t. 163 is this without involucres. From 

 Mexico to Venezuela, Brazil and Peru, it is a very common but as vari- 

 able Cordillerian type. 



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 Bulletin Dept. of Agri., Brisbane. June, 1895. [Dept. of Agri.] 

 Bulletin Torry Bot. Club. No. 8. August, 1895. [Editor.] 

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 Agri. Ledger. Nos. 3, 19, 20 of 1894, & 1, 2, .3, 4 of 1895. [Supt. of 



Govt. Printing India.] 

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 Agi i. Gazette & Planters' Journal, Barbados. Nos. 8 & 9. August & Sep- 

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 The Hawaiian Planters' Monthly. No. 8. August, 1895. [Editor.] 

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 Science Gossip. Nos. 17 & 18. July & Aug., 1895. [Editor.] 

 Insect Life. U. S. Dept. Agri., Div. of Entomology. Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5. 



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 Revue Agricole. No. 7. July, 1895. [Editor.] 

 The Forester. No. 5. Sept., 1895. [Editor.] 



Experiment Station Record. Vol. VI No. II & Vol. VII No. I. [U. S. 

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Provincial Govt. Crop Report, Nova Scotia. July, 1895. [Dept of Agri.] 

 Report Experimental Fields, Dodd's Reformatory, Barbados. 1894. 

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Report Agri. Exp. Station Univ. of California. 1892-93 & part of 1894. 

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Report Missouri Botanic Garden. 1895. [Director.] 



Report on the cultivation of Ramie in the United States by C. R. Dodge. 

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Catalogue of Plants in the Govt. Botanic Gardens, Sydney. [Director.] 

 Scientific American. Sept., 1895. [Gillespie Bros.] 

 American Journal of Pharmacy. No. 9. Sept., 1895. [Editor.] 



