New Ferns from Brazil 



by 



Carl Christensen. 



In working out a critical list of the ferns in the Botanical 

 Museum at Copenhagen, I have found the following species or 

 varieties to be undescribed or not hitherto recorded from Brazil; 

 in a few species of Fée I have altered the name, when the name 

 of Fée has been previously occupied in the genus. The specimens 

 are gathered chiefly in South Brazil by the celebrated collector, 

 Dr. Glaziou, and by Hj. Mosén of Stockholm, resident for 

 many years at Galdas, state of Minas Geraes. 



filaphoglossum decoratum (Kze.) Moore. This beautiful species, pre- 

 viously only known from the West Indian islands, Guyana and Peru, has 

 now been gathered in South Brazil by Glaziou n. 15712 and by Mosén 

 n. 3727, San Paulo: Santos, 30 /3 1875 (Acrostichum Mosenii Glaziou in 

 sched.). It is also recorded from Ouro Preto: Serra das Gamarinhas, leg. 

 Schwacke (vide: Christ in Bull, l'herb. Boiss. II, 2, 328 (1902)). All the 

 specimens are sterile. 



Polypodium Warmingii n. sp. (Eupolypodium). Gaudex short, erect, 

 crowned at the top with a tuft of light-brown, thin, linear-subulate, about 

 1 cm. long scales. Stems tufted, Va — 2 cm. long, rigid, clothed with long, 

 soft, patent, reddish hairs; frond 1—5 cm. long, ' à U — IV2 cm. broad, 

 oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowed towards the base, pinnatifid into a 

 narrow wing ; segments oblong, obtuse,, dilated and decurrent at the base, 

 the lower ones reduced to mere auricles; larger segments crenate or in- 

 cised Vs — Vs of the way down to the midrib; texture very thick, coria- 

 ceous, midrib and veins quite hidden; veins free, 2 — 3 jugate, erecto- 

 patent, once forked, not reaching the margin. Sori large, superficial and 

 sub marginal, one at each lobe. Frond with a few long, spreading, reddish 



