DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 271 
Polypody ; growing on rocks or dry turf banks ; it occurs in 
Europe, Asia, Africa and America. 
Polypodium vulgare Linn. Kze, Linn. 10, 499; Pappe and Rawson, 
39; Wood’s Natal Ferns , 31; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 334; Sim, 
Ferns of South Africa , 1st ed., 193; C. Chr. Ind. 574. 
Polypodium australe. Fee, Gen. 236. 
(. Polypodium ( Grammitis ) australe Mett. is an Australian 
and South American species with free veins and undivided 
fronds; credited by Kuhn to “Prom. Bon. Spei” (Poeppig), 
but evidently a mistake caused by above cross-names.) 
West. — Table Mountain (Drege); George (Rawson); Langebergen, 
near Zuurbraak, 3000 ft (R. Schl. 2149). 
East. — Bellerne, Bedford (Holland); Boschberg (MacOwan); Howi- 
son’s Poort, Grahamstown (Dr Atherstone); Oudeberg (Bolus, 701); 
Winterberg (Eck.). 
Kaff. — Kat River (Eck.); Manubi (Bowker); Perie, 4000 feet. 
Natal. — Sources of Mooi River, Lyndoch, The Dargle (McKen); 
Boston, Norton’s, Riet Vlei, 4000 feet only (Buchanan); up country, 
rare (Wood, Plant 311). 
Transvaal. — Rustenburg (Collins in Transvaal Museum Herbarium, 
778). 
156. Polypodium polypodioides (Linn.) Hitchcock. 
Plate 136. Nat. size, b Peltate scale of frond, magnified, 
c Scale of rhizome, magnified, d Unusual form. 
Rhizome very long, slender, woody, closely attached to 
tree trunks or on moss, and clothed with lanceolate, adpressed, 
dark scales. Fronds scattered, glabrous on the upper surface, 
simply pinnate or pinnatifid, rather widest at the base, sub- 
coriaceous, involved when dry, oblong deltoid, three to six 
inches long, one to two inches broad, with a hard stipe two 
to three inches long, which, like the underside of the frond, 
is clothed with small, ovate, pointed, peltate scales. Pinnae 
oblong or linear, one-half to one inch long, two lines broad, 
with a widened adnate base, or sometimes not cut quite to 
the mid-rib ; entire or irregularly crenate, with a rounded 
apex. Sori in a line on each side of the pinna, almost 
marginal. Veins anastomosing or free, but not easily seen. 
This is one of those curious plants known as Resurrection 
