Рите LI. с. 
THE DWARF ADDERS TONGUE, 
(Оршостоввом LUSITANICUN). 
OPHIOGLC 
У Spore-eases naked, arranged in а 
UM, Linnaeus. 
Clusters 
lo distic 
tracted branch of the frond. Spore-cuses uniserial along each margin of the 
s spike, forming а eon- 
о, leathery, without reticulations, horizontal, globose, but sunk 
in or connate with the spike, opening in two valves transversely to the axis, 
Veins (ecostato in British species) uniform, reticulated in elo 
sated hexagonoid 
areoles, with or without free included veinte 
0. тлытаттоти; fronds solitary, or two-three from ench crown 
ear-lanceolate, small, thick, fleshy 
barren branch linear 
fertile branch linear-oblong apiculate 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
с 
nike Croen forming а thickened, oblong-fusiform blunt descending axis (rhizome, Pres) the 
terminal bud or growing point conical, and enclosed by a few brown membranaceous sheaths 
coarse, brittle, fleshy, spreading or de 
ing, unbranched, growing irregularly from the axis, one (or 
more?) becoming elongated in a st 
like manner, and producing a new erown toward: 
из extremity 
Stipes erect, smooth, cylindric 
tip 
succulent, one-third to one-half the height of the frond, furnished 
with two or three 
der vascular bundles, the base enclosed by membranaccous sheathing scales 
Which are taper-pointed above, dilated 
elow; divided into ме fertile and barren branch or 
terminating in a barren frond. 
Vernation plicate 
Fronds from one to three inches high, thick and fleshy or 
colour. Sterile radical fronds (commonly but not always accompanying the ferüle fronds) linear 
lanceolate, smooth, tapering below into tho stalk or stipes, Sterile branch of the fertile fronds linear 
or more frequently linear-lan 
with the fertile branch, spreading, 
bluntish, from three-fourths of an inch to one and a half inch long, somewhat elevated at the margins, 
