are XXVIII. 
THE MOUNTAIN BUCKLER FERN (Lisrua Orropreris), 
LASTREA, Presl. 
Clusters of Spore-cases circular, medial or subterminal on the venules, covered by an 
indusium, or membranous seale. /ndusium. т, de, more or less regularly 
rotundate with a posterior notch ; attached by the sinus or notch, the margi 
becoming free. Veins simple, forked, or pinnate ; venules direct, disunited at 
their extremities. 
o-glandular beneath, lanccolate, very much narrowed 
L. Onsoptenis; fronds resin 
below, pinnate; pinna: linc 
1; caudex tufted. 
lanceolate, deeply pinnatifid, the lobes oblong, flat ; 
Mona of РАНА Botany, 410. De 
“Moor, Шы of Brith ит, 
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med of the bases of the fronds surrounding 
Candez stout, tufted, decumbent and slowly ereepin 
a woody axis, scaly. Scales pale ferruginous, ovate acuminate, Fibres stout, brown, branching, 
Stipes short, stout, terminal and adherent to the caudex ; glandular, and covered with ovate and 
lanceolate pale brown membranaceous scales, Rachis scaly below, the scales becoming finer and more 
hair-like upwards ; clothed also abundantly with sessile glands. 
folded eonvolutely 
Vernation civcinate, the pinna: not 
е to three feet or more in height, the smaller three inches, the l ght to ten or 
Frond from 
en or often yellowish, clothed beneath 
ies in breadth, erectish, numerous, terminal, bright 
1 of small sessile resinous glands, which give out an 
with a profs 
