Polypodiacem.'l 
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Nodi inferiores glabri, superiores (ad ramorum ortum) pilos paucos breves gerentes. Folia longe vag'inantia, 
plana, anguste lineaiia, culmiun longitudine sequantia, margine serrulata scabra. PaniculcB compactee. Spicce 
duae pedunculum bractea spathacea vaginatum terminantes. Rachis ai-ticidata, glabra: nodi breviter ac 
parce pilosi. /SJpicMte geminte, glabrse ; altera pediceUata neutra, lanceolata, striata, mnticaj altera sessilis, 
hermaphrodita, iiniflora, gliunis striatis, glumella exteriore aristata ; arista flosculum subsequans, medio geni- 
culata, inferne tortilis. 
We have not been able to refer this species to any described one. It approaches much to A. hirtus of 
the South of Em-ope, but differs from that and from almost every hitherto known species of the genus, by 
the nearly total absence of hairs on the rachis ; these, indeed, are so short and so few as to leave some doubts 
if it ought to be retained in Andropogon, although agreeing w'eU in other points with the reformed character 
as given by Trinius. 
1, Heteropogon glaber. Pers . — Andropogon Allionii. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 4. p. 904. 
Ord. XLVII. LYCOPODINE^. Sw. 
1. Lycopodium Phlegmaria. Linn. 
2. Lycopodium cernuum. Linn. 
1. Psilotum triquetrum. Sw. — Bernhardia dichotoma. Willd. — Lycopodium nudum. 
Linn. 
2. Psilotum complanatum. Sw. — Bernhardia complanata. Willd} 
Ord. XLVIII. OPHIOGLOSSE^. Br. 
1. Ophioglossum pendulum. Willd. 
One of the two specimens in the Collection has a very broad frond, in some parts nearly three inches in 
diameter, three or four times divided in a dichotomous manner. 
Ord. XLIX. MARATTIACE^. Bory. 
1. Angiopteris evecta. Hoffm. — Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 36. — Polypodium evectum. 
“ Forst. Prodr. n. 438.” 
This plant is used by the natives for food in years of scarcity. 
Ord. L. OSMUNDACE^. Br. 
1. Schizsea dichotoma. Willd. — Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 17. 
1. Lygodium scandens. Gaud. — Hydroglossum scandens. Willd. — Ugena microphylla. 
Cav. Ic. V. 6. p. 76. t. 595. f. 2. 
Ord. LI. GLEICHENIACE^. Br. 
1. Gleichenia Hermanni. Br. — Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 14. — Mertensia dichotoma. 
Willd. — Pol 3 rpodium dichotomum. Thunb. 
LIE POLYPODIACE^. Kaulf. 
1. Acrostichum aureum. Sw. 
1. Gymnogramma Calomelanos. Kaulf. — Acrostichum Calomelanos. Linn. Willd. 
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