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TAB. XX. 





OPHIOGLOSSUM RETICULATUM 



FILICES. — Ophioglosse^. Br., Kaulf. 



Stachyopterides. Willd 



Gen, Char. OPHIOGLOSSUM, Linn. Capsulas nudae, in spicam articulatam disticham con- 



natae, uniloculares,, transverse dehiscentes, bivalves. Willd. 





Ophioglossum reticulatum ; spica caulina longissime pedunculata, fronde cordata apiculata reticu- 



lata " radice elongata. 



95 



Ophioglossum reticulatum. Linu. Sp. Pl.p. 15 



Swartz. Syn. Fil. p. 170. Willd. Sp. Pl 



5.p.6o 



Smith in Rees Cycl. — Lam. Illustr. t.864.f 



Sieber Herb. Fil. n. 1Q 



Ophioglossum cordifolium. 



Rob. MSS. cum Ic. 



Ophioglossum cordatum et reticulatum. Plum. Fil.p. 141. t. \6A. 



Hab. In Insulis Mauritii et Borboniae, Indiae Orientalis. In Hispaniola, Jamaica, et Guiana 



Indiae Occidentalis. 



Radix (fide Plumieri) descendens, elongata, carnosa, 2 



pollicaris, fibris plurimis albidis simplicibus 



Stip 

 FrOi 



pollicaris, erectus, teres, viridis 



ons solitaria, ad apicem stipitis, lato-cordata, vel cordato-rotundata, carnoso-membranacea, reticulata, areolis 

 angulato-rotundatis, margine integerrimo, apice apiculata, basi profunde emarginata, marginibus in stipitem 



decurrentibus. 

 Pedunculus e sinu frondis, erectus, teres, gracilis, 6—7 uncias longus. 

 Spica terminalis, solitaria, biuncialis, lineari-compressa, mucrone terminata. 

 Capsulce parvse, arctissime connatse, seminibus angulato-sphaericis repleta?. 

 Fig. 1. Semina: — magn. auct. 



It is the case with this, as with many other tropical Ferns, that it is found equally in th 



New 



the Old World 



O 



specimens are all from the Mauritius ; but judging from the fig 



of Plumier above quoted, and the testimony of other writers, there appears to be no 



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between them and those that are natives of the West Indies. 



The drawing was made from specimens gathered by Captain Carmichael in the Mauritius 



difFerence 



