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SCOLOPENDRIUM, § EUSCOLOPENDRIUM.

Pr. t. 42. /. 1. S. officinarum, Sw. Syn. Ml. p. 80. Sc/tk.Fil. p. 78. t. 83. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 348. S. minus, Fee,Gen. Fil. p. 209. t. 17 D. f. 3. S. Lingua, Palmstr. SvenskBot. ii. t. 143. Asplenium Scolopendrium, Linn. Sp. PI.1537.—Var. angustum; fronds small sublinear. Scolopen-drium Lindeni, Hook. Ic. PI. v. t. 488.

Hah. Shady banks, woods, etc., throughout Europe , from Scandinavia (“ ubirarissima filix”) in the north, to Italy , Greece , Spain , Madeira, and the Azores in the south ; the Caucasus and Asia Minor (Nicomedia, Aucher-Eloi ). N. Ame­ rica , State of New York , Dr. Torrey , and Lake Onondaga, Pursh. A small formis in my herbarium from Chiapas , Mexico , Linden ; and I possess fine specimensfrom Hakodadi , Japan , Wilford. —A species easily recognized, yet liable to sportand to take peculiar and monstrous forms, especially in a state of cultivation.Rarely sori are found on both sides of a frond (see Hook. Brit. Ferns, undert. 37).—M. Fee’s S. minus, from the Pyrenees , is merely a young and dwarf state ofS. vulgare.

2. S. (Euscolopendrium) Hemionitis, Sw.; caudex small no-dose very scaly, stipites tufted elongated, fronds 4-6 incheslong hastato-sagittate, the lobes obtusely angled at the base,sori distant short, veins all free.— Sw. Syn. Fil.p. 90. Cav.Ann.de Cienc. v. p. 150. t. 41. _/*. 2. Schk. Fil. p. 79. t. 84. Willd.Sp. PI. v. p. 350 (excl. Aspl. Hemionitis, L.). De Cand. FI.Fr. ii. p. 522. S. cordatum, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 209. S. sagit-tatum, De Cand. FI. Fr. v. p. 238.

Hab. South of France , Italy , Sicily , Spain , Greece , Heldreich. —This is a verydifferent species from the S. vulgare , and appears to be peculiar to the south ofEurope , not extending to any of the opposite coasts of Africa or to the Africanislands.

3. S. (Euscolopendrium) pinnatum. J. Sm.; frond amplecoriaceo-membranaceous 2-3-4 feet long simple or in age pin-nated, pinnae remote a span long acuminate eroso-crenate thebase cuneate and (the uppermost ones) decurrent, terminalpinna the largest its apex proliferous, sori linear-oblique, ra-chis compresso-alate.— J. Sm. En. Fil. Philipp, in Hook. Journ.Bot. iii. p. 406 ( name only). Kvnze in Schk. Fil. p. 124. t. 5 S.S. longifolium, Pr. Reliq. Htsnk. p. 48. t. 9 .f. 1 {young plantwith undivided frond).

Hab. Luzon , HcenJce; S. Camarines, Cuming, %. 187, and Leyte , 311.— I possessfine specimens of the fronds of this noble species; but neither the caudex nor theperfect stipes. Haenke represents the stipes of the young simple-fronded speci-mens as scandent and creeping.

There has been referred to true Scolopendrium the S. Durvillcei of Bory inDuperrev, Yoy. of the Coquille, Bot. p. 273. t. 37. f. I, which represents a longlinear-lanceolate frond, with sori (if sori they are) more like those of a Gymno-gramme than of Scolopendrium ; and most imperfectly described. It is from thePacific island of Ualan, and the caudex is said to be scandent. The same plant