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POLYPODIUM,
§ GONIOPTERIS.
naceous 5 inches to a foot long 1-3 inches wide subhirsute linear-lanceolate or broad-lanceolate erect or flexuose
and decumbent creeping and rootitig at various points and
proliferous pinnate, pinnae distant from h an inch to 2 inches
long from, a broad subpetiolated base o b l o n g obtuse lobatopinnatifid, the superior base auriculiform rarely the lower
one, lobes rounded entire, veins opaque flexuose lowest pair
of veinlets uniting at a great distance from the costule and
forming a large acute areole the rest generally free, sori small
scattered, a minute fimbriated scale is considered b y M e t t e nius to b e an indusium.—a, radicans; frond slender creep­
ing and rooting, pinnae entire free to the apex yet often ternate or deeply pinnatifid.
P. reptans, Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 3 6 .
Willd. Sp. PL v . p . 186. Goniopteris, Pr.
P . Sloanei, Desv.
(not Kze.).
A s p i d . reptans, var. 3, radicans, Metten.
Aspid.
p. 9 9 . Sloane, Jam. t. 29 and 30.—/3, asplenioides;
frond
larger erect, p i n n a large, the apex pinnatifid.
P. asplenio­
ides, Siy. Syn. Fil. p. 3 6 . Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 188. G o n i o pteris, Pr.
W o o d s i a pubescens, Spreng. in Nov. Act. Acad.
Leap. x.p. 233. t. 16. f. 5 - 7 (very good).
Hab. W e s t Indies, both forms especially abundant in Jamaica and Cuba.
Guatemala, Sahyn.
Venezuela, Fendler, n. 2 0 1 , pinnae very broad. Brazil (Mettenius).—Swartz
and others quote the figure o f Sloane's Jam. t. 4 3 , f. 2 , as the
authority for the Polyp, asplenioides.
This is a stout coarse-looking Fern, a foot
and more long and 6 inches broad, which appears to me to have more affinity
with some forms of P. tetragonum.
Such imperfect figures scarcely deserve a
reference.
233. P. (Goniopteris) asterothrix, H o o k . ; " c a u d e x an o b ­
lique r h i z o m e , " stipes a span long and as well as the rachis
patently villous, frond a foot long firm membranaceous more
or less villous especially o n the costa and veins beneath (hairs
sometimes forked) oblongo-lanceolate pinnatifid at the apex,
pinnae distant especially the lower ones
inches long \ — |
of an inch broad oblong obtuse sessile lobato-pinnatifid, lobes
oval rounded entire, the bases united b y a callous line, si­
nuses acute, veinlets 4 - 5 pairs pellucid straight the lowest pair
connivent the next pair meeting at the callous line, sori in 2
lines between the costule or primary vein and the margin.—
Goniopteris, Fee, Gen. p. 2 5 3 . Phegopteris, Metten.
Phegopt.
p. 2 1 .
H a b . Cuba, Linden, n. 1878 (re. 1 9 1 7 , according to Fc'e.).—Resembling
a large
form o f P. reptans, but the w h o l e plant is larger, the stipes and rachis stouter,
very hairy, and the venation, is very different.
I fail to see the stellated hairs