Plate XLIX. 



A. 



THE TUNBRIDGE FILM PERN 



(HVMEXOPHVIJ.UM TUiXBRIDGKNSK). 



HYMENOPHYLLUM, Smith. 



Clutter* of Sjwcwcs enclosed within extra-marginal two-vnlved sulMirceolnte 

 involucres, of the same texture as the frond. Spore-cases obliquely compressed 

 with a transverse ring, sessile around the columnar receptacles, bursting verti- 

 cally'. Receptacles (extra-marginal extensions of the veins) free, ami included 



within the involucres snbelavate. Vdm disunite.! at their extremities, simple 

 or forked, ' 



H. TtrHBRiDOBBSE: fronds ]. el I ncido -membranaceous, ovate or oblong more or less elon- 

 gated, pinnate ; pinna? subvcrtical, ptnnatilid, decurrcut, fonniug a wing to the 

 rachis ; segments linear, undivided or bifid, and, as well as the upper margin 

 of the roundish valves of the axillary solitary sessile compressed involucres, 

 spuiuloscly serrate. 



IlT»».voi--,w eM »™.. MU „, Smia, *,■«*•*. *rw«Aw jw< &* &.W,, ,, f nnHi ,. 4IS> ,.,,,* 



flWa.y. ,„. 1. 102; Ogtkt *7 OT( ir. 313. tfwttr, tyeefc, KUtmm, i. OS. , tMlfr „j ArMCll , 

 n,,,„i nor*, y.7. BM^lm, MntteiofllntUk B*t*,y, IW. j/*. n y, fl«ro //.V™,,. SIS. Ant», 



''-'.'■■y- /; "'" ■■.» l~'- -v..-,,.,. //,.,.,.//;„,,* ;;..,.;,;. jfc^ OtnOotk tfJMH* 



*Wi«,a>7. Stttrty.lirntfGm.1 JMr*'., Tft. I. 12. Crty, BrilM BkmU, ii. 10. //«!«■. Fler* Xo-- 

 oW.,, ,v. t. 7! , Q rimi m^m, t. 3£ mOtmm, S^e, tb+nm, r. 520. Hfrrm&t, %,»,« l'^- 

 *./<-., iv. 18*. Pfttl, Jfymmopljliacer, 32. Ilnkyrj!!, Hen e/AV* Zftrfmrf, ii. 11. 



ii murorarum uwiown, a*.«.v, z.„««, b. no. /w. i^.qj.fw,, 32. 



n»im»nxi» Th.num.1, AW./™, &WWU PW, Ra*™*. a-™., 02: -ceorJiK lo Kwub. 1W. 



TaiouoMun ranuraon, Z.W«. gwaVi /V.«f*.., 1M1. JW™, ffifeni (j« r «, -iifc figure <i, m, 



TBicilOHiXM rVWRPUlK, a/ii^y, /V*/r™„, 101. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 

 Pmte XI,lX.»._TRfcno««o.- TCS.aiiKirj.4rj from Killarney, Kerry; II. Barri-j/w. 



IIABITAT.-Tho Tunbndce Film Fen » fcund i. moonUinou. and rock, «i«uli 0n ,, usually carpeling Iho damp .urfacc of 

 Ibe rork, lb™*.K«, but .wtinm growing « ,bc ground i„ *& pi^ w mow .ii,„ „„ , w lrunlt ^ UrM _ „ b 



ntnwntj- dupnwd, being found i.i England from tho ponin.uU formed by Iho countie, of Corn-all, Devon, and 

 Somcrad. in nil -hlcl. .1 occur.; .oiithwa*!. in ^ml loeolitic* in Stun* and the adjacent county of Kent • and 

 northward, in «cw«l place, in tec counlic. of Glamorgan, Brecknock, , u d Merioneth, in Wain. Il i. found again 

 n tb° court*, cf CI— «, LocnUr, »d York, ond ... ih L&* Ui.lrirt: ii, lb* SooU-h 1,-wUnd wwilie. of 

 Daiufnc. ImoA. ami I'cebln j and In Hie Higblnn.1 oon of lhualuKon and A^.le, u wsH ai Ibc Ida of Hull nml 

 Bute; N«d« nbieh, il i. In, nl.&cWritv itport^ from Ihc eouMki of Sliriing, PMb, and Ro«. I., In-lnnd it m 

 found m ll« |^rt»n«» of Connughl, l*,m.| P r, and M.m.ler; and b abandam .ad remarkably fioo in Uw vieinilr of 

 KOauiwr. Mr. Newman nenllon. thai H. tnhriJja,* obilit. a preference for .liado, «nn>(b, and •belter; *UM 

 it. nllj, H. tmlatrnlt. MtablUhea it^f on Ueak and e l po^d roeka. 

 ranges from the- eoait leiol loan tkintiou of about ISQOfcd. 



Aotoeding to Jlr. Walaon, IL /nM^w 



(HXKIKAI'MICAI. ])1STI(1»UT10X. . Tbi. .pecic o«ur. over tic smter par. of Entopo, beir* reeordod from S.ede., 

 Md ^0^way,l■ra n ec.(^e7 ^ l^nJ,nndll n lJ : it r«,»* i,, alrano or ™b-a!pine dulrkto. Ixdebour, bo-erer, .Ion not 

 nenban iU occurrence in the eitcn.ire nnpj of eoonlrj.boUi Kuropmi nnd Aiutie.repmcntcd by Ibe Pten Itemta 

 II : m found in India (Hi. Untor); again in the Am and Uadotn, and in SontU Afrin; in Ibe iOand of Jlauritia. 

 (//o.«wl«r)i in. Chili nnd Ilra.il, In N«ir Holland and id New inland. There al» oeeur. in Xc» AoUnd, a. 

 well w in Tamaua, and New Holland, and again nl UlS Oqio of Qood Hope and in Ibe Organ mountain* of Ilra.il, a 

 variety vbieh diflo. in it. narrooer rccun.d •e?nlenl^ in Ibia nvpect menibliiig II. umiUtrmle, but laiinj lU 

 denlicnhle-iniolucre nlra of //. l,*I#i4 s < l , H : Ihi. plant i. ibe II. enpnuifrrma of LabdUnber.", the IL (.•AViVoe. 

 of llro»ji, the II.MotHifwmot Piwl in part, and Ihc W. nrefWin- ef Col.. 4 



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Rhizome rigid, filiform, dark-brown, creeping, branched, nnd forming dense entangled carpet-like 

 masses ; furnished about the base of the fronds with a few hair-like scales. Fibres slender and downy. 



Stipes slender, wiry, terete, varying from one-third to one-half tho length of the frond, often 

 slightly margined or winged in the upper part ; lateral at intervals along the rhizome, to which it is 

 adliorenki Racftis winyed 





