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VIII. POLYPODIACEiE. Presl. 
xxx. polypodium, lin. (3 Species.) 
113. Polypodium vulgare. Lin. Frond deeply pinnatifid, 
its segments linear lanceolate, blunt, crenulate at the margins, 
approximate ; upper ones gradually smaller. Sort circular, 
placed in a single line on each side of the midrib at the upper 
portion of the frond. Rhizome creeping, chaffy. Schkuhr’s 
Filic., tab. 11. 
In the fissures of rocks on Table Mountain ; also at George, 
Albany, Kat River, and in Kafirland. v. s. 
114. Polypodium Ecklonis. Kze. Frond lanceolate-ovate, 
deeply pinnatifid ; seqments broad at base, remote, alternate, 
patent, oblong, rather blunt, perfectly entire, glossy on the 
upper side, and covered below (as well as the costa and the 
stipes) with loose scales. Sori cushioned, submarginal. Kze. 
Linnaea, vol. 10, p. 498. 
Parasitical on old trees in the forests of Uitenhage, Beaufort, 
and Kaffraria (Eckl. & Zeyh.) ; also at Natal (Drege.) v. s . 
115. Poly podium Bergianum. Schlecht. Fronds hairy on 
both sides : pinnce alternate or opposite, pinnatifid, acute ; 
segments alternate, oblong, obtuse, ciliated, slightly gnawed 
at the borders. Stipes and rachises clothed with shaggy down ; 
sori small in one row between the midrib and the margin. 
Schlecht. Adumb., p. 20, tab. 9. 
In shady places at the foot of Table Mountain, Witteboom, and 
Kirstenbosch (Bergius, Mundt, Drege), near the cataract on the 
Devil’s Peak (Ecklon), at Natal (Dr. Krauss.) 
XXXI. GONIOPTERIS. PRESL. (1 Species.) 
*116. Goniopteris silvatica. Nob. Frond pinnate 3-4 feet 
high, smooth, dark green at the upper, pale at the underside, 
sub-coriaceous ; pinnce obliquely truncate at base, sessile, 
oblong-lanceolate, long and narrowly tapering towards the 
apex, acuminate, remote, inciso-pinnatifid ; lower ones nearly 
opposite, upper ones alternating ; segments oblong, falcate, 
obtuse ; veins, rachises, and the 3-cornered furrowed stipes 
slightly downy ; sori minute. Gymnogramma unita. Kze. 
Linnaea, vol. 18, p. 115. 
In the primaeval forests of Natal. (Gueinzius.) v. s. 
XXXII. MARGINARIA. BORY. (1 Species.) 
117. Marginaria ensiformis. Presl. Frond coriaceous. 
