Flora of the British West Indian Islands / by A.H.R. Grisebach.

  • August Grisebach
Date:
1864
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Credit: Flora of the British West Indian Islands / by A.H.R. Grisebach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    name (1788), but regarding only a special form with truncate segments. Variable chiefly in the broad, or narrow, acuminate, or blunt, or truncate segments, the primary ones 1 -3 Ion, secondary spreading, terminal often narrowly acuminate.—Hab. Jamaica!, Mac/., Pd., in high mountains, on rocks, at 5000' alt. ; S. Vincent!, [all tropical countries to Madeha and the Cape!]. ** Leaf 3-pinnalipartile; indusium ciliate. 203. A. pumilum, Sw. Leaf ^-partite (-pinnatipartite), deltoid, herbaceous, often hairy beneath or ciliate: segments ovate or deltoid, unequally serrate or pinnatifid : veins dichotomous or forked, terminated near the margin : petiole pale, brown below ; sori linear, distant from the midrib, and more so from the margin: indusium ciliate.—Plum. Fil. t. 66. A : a form with blunt segments.—A. anthriscifolium, Jacq. : the form with piu- natipartite leaves.—3-6(-10) high; inferior segments S'—16' long, 6'—10' broad, usually pointed.—Hab. Jamaica !, Macf, Pd. ; S. Vincent!, Guild. ; [Cuba! to French is- lands !, Sieb. Mart. 361; Mexico ! to Venezuela !; Abyssinia !]. § 3. Veins simple, pinnate, lowest forlced.—Leaf herbaceous, pinnatisect-pinnate-3-pinna- tisect (Canopteris). 204. A. dentatum, L. Leaf pinnatisect: segments subdistant, cuneaie-elliptical (or roundish), blunt, dentate above, lowest smaller: rhachis green-margined : veiu3 few, simple, slender, terminated at the base of the teeth, lowest forked: petiole pale or brown at the base; sori oblong, intermediate between the margin and the flexuose midrib.—Plum. Fil. t. 101, dextr. inf. Hook. Grev. Ic. t. 12.—A. pygmreum, L. sec. Sw.—3-8 high; segments 3'-6' jong) 2'-4',/ broad.—Hab. Jamaica!, all coll., on walls; [Cuba! to French islands !; Mexico !]. 205. A. Trichomanes, Huds. Leaf pinnate: leaflets oval, crenate, cuneate or trun- cate at the oblique or upward produced base, lowest subdistant, smaller: rhachis scarious- margiued: veins few, simple, lower (or most) forked : petiole black; sori oblong (or half- oval), intermediate between the margin and the flexuose midrib.— Schk. Crypt, t. 74.—By the veins sometimes most forked {A. anceps, Sol.) it passes into the preceding series, but in habit stands next to A. dentatum.—Hab. Jamaica !, Macf., Pd.; [northern temperate and tropical zones of the globe]. 206. A. formosum, IP. Leaf pinnate: leaflets oblong-lanceolate, bluntish, dimi- diate-truncate at the base, pinnatifid and obtusely serrate at the upper margin and round the apex, lowest distant, small.- rhachis scarious-margined: veins simple, lower forked, terminated within the serratures : petiole black; sori oblong-half-oval-oblong, extending from near the midrib to the base of the serratures.—Plum. Fil. t. 66. B.—A. nanum, IP. —6—12 long, shortly petiolcd ; segments usually 6'—8' long, 2'—3' broad.—Hab. Ja- maica !, Wits.; [Cuba! to French islands!, Sieb. Mart. 246; Mexico! to Brazil!; Gala- pagos !; trop. Africa and Asia]. 207. A. pteropus, KaiUf. Leaf pinnatisect: segments spreading, oblong, pointed, serrate, dimidiate-truncate and upwards auricled at the base, lowest gradually smaller : rhachis margined: veins simple, lowest forked : petiole margined, pale or pale-brown be- neath ; sori oblong, distant from the midrib, and more so from the margin.-—Hook. Spec, t. 177.—I'-lVhigh; most segments 1 long, 3' broad.—Hab. Jamaica!, Al.; S. Vin- cent!, Guild.; [Fortorico ! to Guadeloupe!; Venezuela! to Ecuador 1 and Brazil!]. 208. A. fragrans, Sw. Leaf 2-3-pinnatisect: primary segments subdistant, lowest con- form, ultimate lanceolate, inciso-serrale above : rhachis flattish : veins simple, lowest forked : petiole pale or brown; sori oblong, extending from the midrib to near the base of the lobes, subparallel to the former.— Hook. Grev. Ic. t. 92.—A. foeniculaceum, Kth. A. delicatulum, Pr.—3-8 high; primary segments 6'—15' long.—Hab. Jamaica!, Macf., Pd., AL, common ; Dominica !, Imr.; [Cuba ! to French islands !; Mexico ! to Ecuador !]. 209. A. rhizophorum, L. Leaf 2-pinnatisect or pinnatisect, proliferous at the summit: primary segments oblong-lanceolate, undivided and aavro.tG-2-pinna/ipartite, lowest conform, secondary and tertiary ones euncatc-elliptical or obovntc: rhachis devoid of a membranaceous margin: veins simple, lowest forked : petiole shining-brown or purple ; sori oblong, intermediate between the midrib and margin: indusium narrow. 2 Y