



THE BRITISH FERNS. 
THE SOFT PRICKLY SHIELD FERN. 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE. 
P. fronds lanceolate, lax, herbaceo-chartaceous, bipinnate; pinnules 
distinct, oblong or ovate-subfalcate, auricled, bluntish or acute, with 
an obtuse-angled base, attached by a distinct stalk, lobed or serrated, 
the serratures tipped by soft bristles; sori terminal or subterminal. 
[Plate XVIIL] 
POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE, Presl, Tent. Plerid. 88. Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 
3 ed. 117. Deakin, Florigr. Brit. iv. 95, fig. 1604. Babington, Man. Brit. 
Bot. 4 ed. 423. Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 8 ed. 85; Id., Ferns of Gt. 
Brit. Nature Printed, t. 12 A. Sowerby, Ferns of Gt. Brit. 34, t. 18. Fee, 
Gen. Fil. 278. 
POLYSTICHUM ACULEATUM, A. Gray, Man. Bot. North. U. States, 632. Fee, Gen. 
Fil. 278. 
POLYSTICHUM SETIFERUM, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, t. 12, in obs. 
POLYSTICHUM AFFINE, Wollaston, Phytol. n. s., i. 439. 
POLYSTICHUM ORBICULATUM, Gay, Hist. Chil. vi. 515. 
POLYSTICHUM BRAUNII, Fee, Gen. Fil. 278. (A variety.) 
ASPIDIUM ANGULARE, Kitaibel MS. : Willdenow, Sp. Plant. v. 257. Smith, Eng. 
Fl. 2 ed. iv. 278. Sowerby, Supp. Eng. Bot. t. 2776. Hooker & Arnott, Brit. 
Fl. 7 ed. 584. Mackay, Fl. Hib. 339. Fries, Sum. Veg. 82, 252. Lowe, 
Nat. Hist. Ferns, vi. tt. 23, 24. Nyman, Syll. Fl. Europ. 431. 
ASPIDIUM ACULEATUM, Kunze, Flora, 1848, 359 (excl. var. syn.) ; Id., Lin. 
xxiii. 224. E 
AsPIDIUM ACULEATUM, B., Smith, Fl. Brit. 1122. Bentham, Handb. Brit. Fl. 
629.  Ledebowr, Fl. Ross. iv. 513. 
ASPIDIUM ACULEATUM, y. BRAUNTI, Döll, Rhein. Fl. 21. A. Gray, Bot. North. 
U. States, 2 ed. 599. (A variety.) 
ASPIDIUM HASTULATUM, Tenore, Sem. H. R. Neap. 1830; Id., Fl. Napol. iv. 
139; v. 304, t. 250, fig. 1; Id., Att. Accad. R. Inst. Sc. Nat. Nap. v. 
(reprint 26, t. 4, fig. 7). ; 
ASPIDIUM LOBATUM, Loudon, Encyc. of Plants, 884. 
ASPIDIUM LOBATUM, v. ANGULARE, Mettenius, Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips. 88. 
ASPIDIUM ORBICULATUM, Desvaux, Berl. Mag. v. 321. 
ASPIDIUM FUSCATUM, Willdenow, Sp. Plant. 256 (excl. syn.) 
ASPIDIUM PAUCICUSPIS, Sturm, Enum. Fil. Chil. 33. 
ASPIDIUM BRAUNIL, Spenner, Fl. Friburg. i. 9, t. 2. Kunze, Flora, 1848, 362. 
(A variety.) 
PoLYPODIUM SETIFERUM, Forskal, Fl. Egypt. Arab. 185. 
POLYPODIUM APPENDICULATUM, Hoffmann, Deutschl. Fl. ii. 8, (not Swartz). . 
POLYPODIUM ANGULARE, Fries, Novit. Fl. Suec. Mant. i. 20; according to 
Kunze. 
POLYPODIUM ACULEATUM, Hudson, Fl. Ang. 459. Bory, Ess. Isles Fort. 311. 
HYPOPELTIS LOBULATA, Bory, Exp. de Morée, 286 ; according to Kunze. 
TECTARIA ELONGATA, Cavanilles, Ann. Cienc. Nat. iv. 101 ; according to Webb. 

