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Plate XLII1. d. 



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THE SMALL-LEAVED GYMNOGRAM 



(Gymnogramma lkptophylla). 



GYMNOGRAMMA, Den 



WitJ\ 



Clusters of Spor*-cam without covers, forming elongated forked lines on the back of 

 the veins, medial, superficial, often becoming at length effu» and confluent 

 Veins disunited at their extremities, forkc<l or pinnate. 



G. LEFTOPHTLLA; fronds oblong ovate, bUri-pinuatc, glabrous, fragile; pinnules or 

 pinnuleU ovato-euncatc, usually thrcc-lobcd, the lobes blunt and bidentatc. 



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 tock *f Jtriluh »™ f 02. ftm-M, //.afory & BritM iV«w, 12. e>nvp*, fy&m* FrottoUium^ ir. 40. 

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l*ol TrOMtM Mi'ii-i-ituiiM. £jjv*intr, fyreiW Plant*rmm r KVVt, 

 ACE04TICUVM LirTOPIirLLHH, /fr t!*Bifetfc* f £?«f* /VAflfittW, & 5G5. 



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 Ammiuhwa urmmitHA, £**£» FitKii** o>tei>v, 137* *», Go**?* PiHeum, ISI. 



AarLr.MUK LUTOI'MVLWM, C*ntAitt** f " A**kt do Olrmcw XtfHraJtM, T. 13, 1. ||." 



Mruioxnia LBmUYIXA,* 1L row I, Loook*, Gtnm <t*J £)*ectV#, JJ3. 



OsvuM)t itriOftol lu, /jTMarrJ*, EAfycfatwMic Uot*9rvnt t Jr. C57. 

 DlCUANOirlCJI, Awmah, ItUfofj of BritUb Frr** r 13. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



PitAT* XLlll. n.— GrMtwuxawiia LlTfWMYLLi; 1, from Jemy; *V. if. H-dfi. 2, froto Jener; militated; C Jmoito*. 

 3, from Madeira * K i*. Paw. 



It A BIT AT — TV habitat wli*cnbring» the* SttalMeaved (■ywinografii into our lial of A'cro*,— nunclj-, llio Inland of Jer»ej— i* 

 rather ["olitiailly than gcogrApIikallf British. Iu tbat inland it occurv in sctcril Ascertained localities princiitatlv in 

 lh* 1 nvi^libonrhoodi of Si. Laurence, St. AulriuV, and St. Haul?* Mr. Ward ( who iititoJ in localities in lsV*, and to 

 whom Wfl aro indebted for ppccinCTi*, inform* u* tint .1 grow* on the- esuoaed bank* of bnc* with a ■oulh-ur*U<ni n^uvt, 

 piMtocUnl from tho |Ufl lij- t*u< *h rrou tiding vogotUtou whi^ti ^loll»it \he lanV^and fol by tio <oa»Unt ooiing of 

 wntcr which rctuWrs the noil miEltoicnlly c»i»l f»* tho growth of Livorworti nail Mo»m** II w i* in l$32 rt-portAl in 

 (Vci i^Aj/oAsyiW Co Imvo Iwn fountl ** in ti Mom* ihh' until* high iwid ktntm^ from Bnr^mnrto K*lbtcr t " in Abct>Jora* 

 •lire, tut a» no further pritkooo of iu c.\istrixo there Kut lnvn furtheomiug, uid the habitat >ecnu loo far north for a 

 tender Fern, tho report Iwm pntbabflj ongiiuUed in twine nceiiletilal error. 



OKOOBAP1UCAI- DISTRIBUTION.— Tliii delKsrio «peei« i* re-nnrltnWo on nowint of \U dupcr*ioti over the world. In 

 Europe, it nnges from Jerw/. Frnsce r i.n-1 Snit/crlnn.!, its nortl^-m limit », in(o Gerauny, eUenJing to SpiJn, 

 Portugal, and Gibraltar, on tho one Kind, and Itnlv, Sdrdinb. SJcilr, pad Orocee. oo the other. In Attft, it in fooitd 

 in Indb, nl Mu»ourie and the Xrilgfarrj Motifrtwn* <//o* /fooier} t and in the irdatid «f Knrok in tho Pewlan Giil1\ 

 In Afriej, it ooenr> in Algirrv, Afaroeeo, AhjdfinU, and in tho Atlantic Itlev, in the northern hcnnipljoro j and at tho 

 Capo of flood Hope* in tbo touthom (/'A. Hooter). In Amerkn, it ia found in Jlcaico at Vera Crur. In Auitra- 

 laasa. il ia fonnd at Wi^ria atid the Swan Bivor, anil in Taamania and Xew Kraland (//o. J/oplw)* 



Gaudex small, fiubglobosc, with a few scattered line liair-seales in the younger stages. Fibre* 

 few, brown, pilose. 



Stijws as long tx», or sometimes longer than, the fronds, smooth ami shining, dark chcsnut-hrowi], 

 paler upward**, rather stout in the most perfect fronds ; terminal, and adherent to the caudex. 



Vernation circulate, 



Fronds about six or eight in number, variable in size and form, delicately membranaceous, fragile; 

 pale yellowish green, very slightly hairy when young, quite smooth afterwards. The first frond 

 developed from the prothallna or marchantiform scale, is small, alwnit half an inch long, Aabclliform, 

 three-lobed, each of the segments again dichotomously lobed, the lobules blunt and bifid. The next frond 

 acquires an oblong ovate outline, and the three lobes arc so far separated as to form three pimue, which 





