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POLYPODIACEAE 
ACROSTICHUM Linnaeus 
ACROSTICHUM AUREUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 106; Safford 174. 
G. E. S. 158, locally known as lagngayao. 
Along the seashore, tropics of both hemispheres. 
ANTROPHYUM Kaulfuss 
ANTROPHYUM PLANTAGINEUM (Cav.) Kaulf. Enum. (1824) 197. 
Hemionitis plantaginea Cav. Descr. (1802) 260. 
G. E. S. 325, on trees, Yigo. 
India to Polynesia. 
ASPLENIUM Linnaeus 
ASPLENIUM CAUDATUM Forst. f. Prodr. (1786) 80. 
McGregor 573. 
Tropics of both hemispheres. 
ASPLENIUM MACROPHYLLUM Sw. in Schrad. Journ. 1800' (1801) 52. 
McGregor 535, Mrs. Clemens s. n. 
India to the Mascarene Islands and Polynesia. 
ASPLENIUM NIDUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1079. 
Neottopteris nidus J. Sm. Hook. Gen. (1842) t. 113B. 
Mrs. Clemens s. n. 
Tropical Africa and Asia, to Polynesia. 
ASPLENIUM LASERPITIIFOLIUM Lam. Encycl. 2 (1786) 310. 
McGregor 548. 
Malaya to Australia and Polynesia. 
ASPLENIUM ADI ANTOIDES (Linn.) C. Chr. Index Fil. (1905) 99. 
Trichomanes adiantoides Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 99. 
Asplenium falcatum Lam. Encycl. 2 (1786) 306. 
Admitted on the authority of Safford, who records it as Asplenium fal- 
catum Lam. 
Tropical Asia to Australia, New Zealand, and Polynesia. 
ASPLENIUM MONANTHES Linn. Mant. (1767) 130. 
Asplenium monanthemum Murr. Syst. ed. 14 (1784) 933. 
Admitted on the authority of Safford who records it as A. monanthemum 
Linn., but there is probably some error in identification or in localization 
of the specimens on which the Guam record was based. 
Tropical Africa and America, Hawaii. 
ASPLENIUM NITIDUM Sw. Syn. (1806) 84, 280. 
Admitted on the authority of Safford; India to Malaya. 
" BLECHNUM Linnaeus 
BLECHNUM ORIENTALE Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1077. 
McGregor 386. 
Tropical Asia to Polynesia. 
