Prate 
THE HAY-SCENTED, ов CONCAVE PRICKLY- 
TOOTHED BUCKLER FERN (I 1. 
LASTREA, Presl. 
Clusters of Spore-cases circular, medial or subterminal on the venules, covered by an 
indusium, or membranous scale. Zwdusium reniform, ie, more or le 
rogularly 
te with a posterior notch; attached by the sinus or notch, the margin 
becoming free, Veins simple, forked, or pinnate; venules direct, disunited at 
their extremities. 
L. raiser: fronds tr 
pinnulets pinnatifid, the mueronately ser 
the stipes concolorous, narrow-lanceolate, fimbriate or laciniate ; 
‚ed with minute sessil 
gular or triangular-ovate, tr 
innate, spreading ; pinnules 
indusium nds, 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
ть XXVIL Lun rariss fom Balcombe, бше, 8. 0. Om 
И Nera In Scotland cars өзі 
Caudez stout, densely scaly, tufted, erect or sometimes decumbent, formed of the bases of the 
fronds surrounding a woody axis, Scales narrow-lnnecolate, pale ferrugin 
and sparingly fimbriate or I 
tomentose 
us, concolorous, variously 
ate on the margin. Fibres long, stout, wiry, branched, dark brown, 
‘Stipes usually about half the entire length of the frond, rigid, moderately stout, brownish-purple 
from the base upwards, furnished plentifully with subulately-lanceolate entire fimbriate or lacerate 
scales of a pale rusty-brown colour. Rachie greenish, furnished with fewer and smaller 
well as the stipes and secondary rachides bearing numerous small sessile spherical glands. 
Vernation eireinate 
Fronds numerous, from one to two feet high including the stipes, and from about five to eight 
inches across, sometimes smaller, 
surface crispy; triangular, or elongute-triangular, or 
sprinkled with minute sessile glands; terminal, and adherent to the с 
x. Pinna opposite 
а rich bright green, somewhat paler beneath, drooping, the upper 
