THE OBLONG WOODSIA. 
THE OBLONG WOODSIA. 
WOODSIA ILVENSIS. 
W. fronds oblong, lanceolate, pinnate, thinly clothed with broadly- 
subulate chaffy scales beneath; pinnæ oblong, obtuse, deeply 
pinnatifid, the lobes bluntly ovate or oblong, obtuse; stipes and 
rachis chaffy-erinite. [Plate CV.] 
Woopsta ILVENSIS, R. Brown, Trans. Lin. Soc. Lond. xi. 179 (excl. syn. 
Michaux). Smith, Eng. Fl. 2 ed. iv. 909. Hooker, Supp. Eng. Bot. t. 
2616; Id., Sp. Fil. i. 63. Deakin, Florigr. Brit. iv. 45, fig. 1583. .Hooker 
& Arnott, Brit. Fl. 7 ed. 583. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 420, in 
part. Sowerby, Ferns of Gt. Brit. 14, t. 5. Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 
ed. 71. Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 248; Id. Ferns of Gt. Brit. 
Nature Printed, t. 47 A. Bentham, Handb. Brit. Fl. 637. Sprengel, Syst. 
Veg. iv. 125. Fé, Gen. Fil. 338. Kaulfuss, Enum. Fil. 251. Link, 
Fil. Sp. 135. Fries, Sum. Veg. 82. Ledebour, Fl. Ross. iv. 510. Ruprecht, 
Dist. Crypt. Ross. 52. A. Gray, Bot. N. United St. 596. Mettenius, 
Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips. 98. Nyman, Syll. Fl. Europ. 480. Lowe, Nat. 
Hist. Ferns, vii. t. 28. 
Woopsta VESTITA, Sprengel, Nov. Prov. Hal. 44 (excl. syn.) according to 
Kaulfuss. 
WoonsrA RarAwA, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 140. 
WoonsiA RUFIDULA, Beck, Bot. North. & Midd. States, 452. 
Wo0DSIA PALEACEA, Opiz; according to Steudel. 
WOODSIA HYPERBOREA, B. RUFIDULA, Koch, Syn. 2 ed. 975. 
ACROSTICHUM ILVENSE, Linnaeus, Sp. Plant. 1528. Hudson, Fl. Ang. 451. 
Bolton, Fil. Brit. 14, t. 9. Fl. Dan. iii. t. 391. 
Acrosticuum MARANTA, Pallas, Itin. iii. 293. Henke, Jacq. Collect. ii. 5. 
POLYPODIUM ILVENSE, Villars, Hist. Pl. Daup. iii. 848. Roth, Cat. Bot. 133. 
Swartz, Schrad. Journ. Bot. 1800, ii. 27; Id., Syn. Fil. 39. Schkuhr, Krypt. 
Gew. 16, t. 19. Willdenow, Sp. Plant. v. 198. Presl, Tent. Plerid. 180. 
Sturm, Fl. (Farrn.) t. 1.. Fl. Dan. xiii. t. 2186. 
POLYPODIUM MARANTE, Hoffmann, Deutschl. Fl. ii. 5. 
PoLYPODIUM ARvONICUM, Withering, Arr. Brit. Pl. iii. 774 (not of Smith). 
POLYSTICHUM ? MARANTE, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 92. 
AsPIDIUM RUFIDULUM, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 58. Willdenow, Sp. Plant. v. 282. 
Poiret, Enc. Supp. iv. 519. 
ASPIDIUM DISTANS, Viviani, App. Fl. Cors. 8. 
NEPHRODIUM RUFIDULUM, Michaux, Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 269. 
LASTREA RUFIDULA, Presl, Tent. Pterid. 76. 
NOTHOCHLENA RUFIDULA, Desvaux, Prod. 221. 
Caudex short, sub-globose, erect or decumbent, tufted, furnished 
with a few scales on the crown. Scales lanceolate, much acuminated 

