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middle ones sessile, falcate, adnate, oblong-hastate ; upper ones small, semi-orbicular, distinct or confluent at the 
base, entire on the margin. Sori uniserial or biserial, with a tuft of forked or stellate hairs in each sorus. Fronds 
terminal, adherent to a rather erect-growing rhizome. The plant is covered 
throughout, especially beneath, with small forked or stellate pubescence. 
The sterile fronds have a great similarity to Q. asplenioides. It was intro- 
duced to Kew in 1852. 
3. Gr. ASPLENIOIDES, Presl (PoLYPODiUM, Swartz ; P. compositum. Link). 
[Plate II.] — -An ornamental, evergreen stove Fern, from Jamaica. Fronds 
lanceolate, pinnate, rugose, pubescent, about one foot long, dullish green, 
with oblong obtuse pinnatifid pinn®, somewhat cordate at the base ; ter- 
minal, adherent to a short creeping rhizome. Sori medial, or subterminal, 
subsequently confluent. 
4. G. PEAXINIFOLIA, Pvesl (PoLYPODIUM, Jacquiu ; P. PROLIFERUM, Kciul- 
fms; P. Fueyreissii, Sprengel). — An elegant evergreen stove species, from 
Brazil. Fronds lanceolate, pinnate, two feet long, with entire lanceolate- 
acuminate smooth shining pinn®, which are dark green, truncate, or occa- 
sionally auriculate at the upper hase, and proliferous throughout. Sori 
medial, triserial, and subsequently confluent. Fronds terminal, adherent 
to an erect fasciculate rhizome. 
5. G. CRENATA, Presl (Polypodium, Swartz). — A very handsome ever- 
green stove Fern, native of the West Indies. Fronds ovate-lanceolate, one 
and a half to two feet long, pinnate, with entire oblong ovate-acuminate 
membranous crenate pubescent pinn®, pale green, roundish or obliquely 
truncate at the base, with very short petioles. Sori medial, in four to eight 
series. Kachis and stipes green ; lateral, adherent to a short creeping rhizome. 
6. G. AFPiNis, Jf. and PL. — An ornamental evergreen stove Fern, from 
Jamaica. Fronds somewhat lanceolate, pinnate, one to two feet long, palish 
green ; pinn® glabrous, lanceolate, four to seven inches long, and about one 
inch wide, lower ones petiolulate, upper sessile, pinnatifld, obtusely lobed, 
acute at the apex, unequal or slightly cordate at the base. Stipes with a few 
scales at the base ; terminal, adherent to a decumbent somewhat creeping 
rhizome. 
7. G. MEQALODES, Presl (Polypodium, Schkuhr). — An ornamental ever- 
green stove Fern, from the West Indies. Fronds oblong-acuminate, broad 
at the base, pinnate, pubescent, pale green, from two to three feet long, with 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, pinnatifid, rather membranous pinn®. Sori 
medial. Stipes and raehis green ; lateral, adherent to a short creeping 
rhizome. 
8. G. Foesterii, M. and H. — A rather rugose-looking evergreen warm 
greenhouse Fern, from New Zealand. Fronds lanceolate, pinnate, one to 
two feet long, dull green ; pinn® sessile, lanceolate, cordate at the base, 
lower ones short, pinnatifid, with roundish obtuse segments, ciliated and 
crenulate at the margin. Eachis and stipes tetragonal, with a few scales 
at the base. Sori medial, or produced near the junction of the venules 
and confluent. Fronds terminal, adherent to a rather erect-growing rhizome. This plant, which is scarce in cul- 
tivation, although grown in Britain nearly thirty years ago, has recently been re-introduced to Kew. It is 
doubtless the Polypodiimi pennigerum of Forster ; but as that specific name is preoccupied in this genus, owing to 
a confusion which has arisen between the present and following species, and a supposed “ Aspidium ” which 
resembles them, it seems to us better to eancel the name pennigerum, and distinguish Forster’s plant by a new name. 
9. G. TETRAGONA, Presl (PoLYPODiuM, Swartz ; P. Smithianum, Heward). — An ornamental evergreen stove 
Fern, from the West Indies. Fronds somewhat lanceolate, pinnate, minutely pubescent, from one to two feet 
high ; pinn® sessile, lanceolate-acuminate, bright green ; lower ones petiolulate, standing forward and tapering 
to the base, upper ones truncate or slightly cordate at the base, pinnatifid, with repand or slightly falcate, acute 
(in the fertile often rounded or obtuse) segments. Fertile fronds erect, usually more or less contracted; pinn® 
indistinctly articulated with the raehis, which is flattened above, and of a pale green. Sterile fronds shorter than 
the fertile, and more dilated. Sori medial, uniserial, the lower ones subsequently confluent. Fronds terminal, 
adherent to a short creeping rhizome. 
10. G. PROLiFERA, Presl (Meniscium, Swartz). — A straggling-growing evergreen stove Fern, from the East 
Indies. Fronds pale green, slender, usually linear-lanceolate pinnate, two to three feet long, with oblong- 
acuminate, membranous, pubescent pinn®, slightly cordate at the hase, and crenato -dentate at the margin. This 
Fern grows freely, and is very proliferous, but without fructification, sometimes growing to a great length, but 
very narrow. Fronds lateral, adherent to a creeping rhizome. 
