Ord. I. Tribe I. 
FILICES POLYPODIACEiE. 
881 
14475 Fronds deeply pinnatifid glaucous : segments lanceolate acuminate repand serrate, Sori in rows 
14476 Fronds pinnate, Leaflets lanceolate acuminate repand wavy distant 
14477 Fronds lanceolate entire smooth or somewhat scaly rigid erect, Sori solitary 
14478 Fronds simple 3-lobed and pinnatifid : segments lanceolate acuminate opposite, Sori scattered immersed 
14479 Sterile fronds sessile ovate sinuated : fertile pinnatifid; segments lanceolate 
14480 Fronds on a creeping stem lanceolate acuminate entire sublucid with flexuous veins, Sori scattered 
14481 Sterile fronds oblong entire : fertile linear lanceolate repand, Sori solitary, Stem paleaceous rooting 
14482 Fronds linear lanceolate much tapered at the base somewhat repand quite smooth, Sori scattered 
14483 Ster. fronds obi. lane, taper, at base : fert. lin.-lanc. bear, sori on upp. half, Sori oval immers. in dense wool 
14484 Fronds pinnate, Finn, somewhat stalked oblong acuminate coarsely and bluntly serrated, Sori in rows 
14485 Fronds simple lanceolate acute at each end nearly entire fructifying at end 
14486 Fronds bipinnate woolly : pinnules elliptical obtuse covered all over with long wool 
14487 Pinnse lanceolate acute cut toothed : pinnules and rachis smooth 
14488 Pinnje pinnatifid with rounded lobes : pinnules villous, Rachis scaly 
14489 Sterile fronds bipinnatifid : segments entire acute equal 
14490 Sterile fronds bipinnatifid : segments entire obtuse ; lower long acute 
14491 Fronds supradecompound. Pinnae alternate roundish cut 
14492 Alternate pinnae pmnulate on the upper-side linear : lower 2-parted 
14493 Sterile pinnae long-lanceolate acuminate cuneate at base repand-toothed : fertile linear 
14494 Fronds pinnated smooth, Pinnse linear bluntish entire nearly equal at base 
14495 Fronds pinnated, Pinnee linear-lanceolate mucronate auricled at base scabrous at edge 
14496 Fronds pinnated, Lower pinnae opposite lanceolate entire subcordate at base : upper alternate united 
14497 Fronds pinnate-pinnatifid : segments lanceolate acuminate somewhat repand finely serrulate 
14498 Fronds very smooth pinnate. Pinnae sessile lanceolate pinnatifid. Segments oblong blunt crenulate 
14499 Fronds lanceolate pinnatifid : segm. linear ensiform acuminate spinulose, Sori lanceolate in two rows 
14500 Fronds pinn. : pinnae cordate pinnatifid ; segm. ovate rather acute, lower and terminal usually 3-lobed 
14501 Fronds bipinn. : pinnules obi. lane, cut serrated : serratures 2 or 3-toothed nearly acute, Sori obi. straight 
14502 Fronds bipinn. : pinnae obi. lane, acute ; pinnules oblong pinnatifid cut, Sori becoming confluent 
14503 Fronds bipinn. : pinnules pinnatifid ; segments 3 or 2-toothed 
14504 Fronds bipinn. : pinnules obovate blunt cuneate at base acutely toothed at end, Sori becoming confluent 
14505 Fronds bipinn. : pinnules oblong acute at each end serrated at end : upper confluent 
14506 Fronds alternately decompound : pinnse rhomboid cuneiform spreading bitten at end 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
2182. Lomana. From XupiM, an edge, on account of the marginal position of the indusia. These are fine 
plants, resembling Acrostichum in habit. 
2183. Blechnum. One of the Greek names of the fern was /SAs^yov. Athenaeus writes it /3A«;^^i'flv, and derives 
it from i?Xa|, powerless, insipid. 
2184. Woodwardia. Named by Sir James Smith, after his friend Thomas Jenkinson Woodward, Esq., a good 
practical English botanist. One of the species produces little hairy bulbs at the axilla? of the leaves, which 
either fall off and strike root in the ground, or vegetate while attached to the parent plant. This property is 
common to many other ferns, and in one instance, the young plants so produced have been mistaken in Pteris 
cornuta for parasites by an acute cryptogamic botanist. 
2185. hoodia. So called in honor of Samuel Doody, a London apothecary, who was almost the fiirst investi- 
gator of British cryptogamic plants. Small rough-leaved ferns of rigid texture. 
2186. Asplenium. From «, privative, and ffTXriv, the spleen. This plant was formerly held to be a 
sovereign remedy for all diseases of this organ, and to be so powerful as even to destroy it if employed in 
excess. 
