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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants. 
FILICES. 
SCHIZiEA DICHOTOMA. 
Willd. Act. Academ. Erford. 1802, p. 30, t. 3, f. 2. 
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
S. Forsteri, Spreng-. Anleitung; iii. 175, is known from Waighion- 
Island, accord, to Miq. Annal. iv. 299. 
Adiantum hispidulum. 
Swartz Syiiops. Filic. 124 et 321. 
Baxter’s River; Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
A. caudatum, Linn. Mantiss. 308, is recorded by Mettenius as a Papuan 
species in Miquel’s Annales Musei Bot. Lugd. Batav. iv. 280. 
Grammitis pinnata. 
F. M, Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. vi. 124. 
Baxter’s River ; Rev. S. Macfarlane. 
In justice to Swartz I prefer to maintain his Grammitis as a genus 
instead of Gymnogramma of Desvaux (in Berlin Magaz. 1811, p. 304), 
especially as Bernhardi, R. Brown and Willdenow acknowledged 
Swartz’s genus before the fii-st definition of Gymnogramma by Desvaux 
did appear, although a portion of Swartz’s original species of Gram- 
mitis required to be transferred to As[)lenium and mainly Polypodium. 
Four species however of those, admitted by Swartz, remain thus 
unaltered in name typical for Grammitis, including the widely diffused 
G. leptophylla, described already as a doubtful Polypodium by Linne 
(Sp. PI. edit. sec. 1553). Otherwise almost for the same cause 
numerous other genera might be abolished, among ferns even Polypo- 
dium itself, simply because by subsequent closer limitation of the 
genera it became necessary to transfer of the original species of Poly- 
podium, described in Linne’s Sp. Plant,, more than half to other chiefly 
later established genera, not less than 14 belonging to Aspidium and 
many to Cystopteris, Asplenium, Adiantum, Grammitis, Meniscium, 
Cheilanthes, Pteris, Davallia, Dicksonia and Cyathea. 
