ACRGSTICHtTM. 
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plant of Elliot. My specimen is 10 inches, the 
leaf large and broad, sheathing the stem, which 
has two other sheaths at the base, bracts small 
squamiform round. Autikon 42. 1c. 61. 
3. Acr. acuminata Raf. Microstylis bra - 
chypoda Gjray. Stem triangular, two angles 
winged, leaf ovate (acute?), raceme elongate 
slender, pedicels short adpresssed ; sepals oblong 
inner linear, lip hastate, trilobe, 2 lobes rounded 
middle one acuminate. — Shady swamps of On- 
eida and Herkimer in New York. Estival, 
stem 2 to 6 inches. Deemed akin to the next 
European sp. by Gray ; which I add to show the 
distinction. 
Acr. cilifolia Raf. Ophrys cilifolia & O. 
monophylos L. Malaxis Persoon, Microstylis 
Lindley. Stem triangular, leaf ovate acute 
ciliolate, raceme slender as long as stem, pedi- 
cels short patent , sepals ovate, inner lanceolate 
lip entire concave acuminate. — Swamps of Prus- 
sia and the Alps. Perhaps two sp. are even 
blended here ; but I have no materials to dis- 
tinguish them properly : let the European bota- 
nists do so; but restore my genus Acroanthes 
1808 adopted by Desvaux. 
ACROSTICHUM, this linnean genus is now 
distributed into 14 Genera, since Smith and 
Wildenow reform of the ferns ! Woodsia , Schi - 
zca and Woodwardiu belonged once to it ! the 
A. lanceolatum is become the Nephrodium ac - 
rostichoides of India, not ours, both of my ge- 
nus Synotelis. His A . platineuron is our As - 
plenium ebeneum . His A. polypodioides is our 
Polypodium incanum — A. ilvense is Woodsia 
— A. oreolatum is Woodwardia — A. lineatum 
Mg. is Schizea Pusilla ? 
