TAB. XXV 



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GYMNOGRAMMA LEPTOPHYLLA 



FILICES.— Gyrat^. JBr. 



PoLYPODiACEiE. Kaulf. Filices verae. Willd 



Gen. Char. GYMNOGRAMMA, Desv. Sori oblongi, venis frondis simplicibus furcatisve 



mserti. Indusium nullum. Frondes pinnatae bipinnatae decompositaeque ; radices caespitosae. 



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Desv. 



Gymnogramma leptophylla ; frondibus bipinnatis, pinnulis cuneatis decurrentibus subtrilobis, lobis 



obtusis bifidis bidentatisve. 

 Gymnogramma leptophylla. Desv. Journ. de Bot. 1813. p. 26. Kaulf. Enum. Fil.p. 81. 

 Grammitis leptophylla. Swartz. Syn. Fil. p. 23 et 218. t.l.f.6. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. b.p. 143. 



Web. et Mohr Fl. Crypt. Germ. p. 26. 

 Hemionitis leptophylla. " Lagasca Gen. et Sp. p. 33." 

 Polypodium? leptophyllum. Linn. Sp. Pl.p. 1553. Schkuhr Fil.p. 26. 





Acrostichum leptophyll 



DeCand. Fl. Fr. v. 2. p. 565 



Asplenium leptophyllum. " Cav. in Annal. Sc. Nat. v. 5. p. 13. t. 41. f. 3. mala.'* 

 Osmunda leptophylla. Lam. Dict. v. A.p. 657. 

 Hab. In Europa australi, locis humidis. 



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Hadix parva, caespitosa, e fibris nigrescentibus arachnoideo-tomentosis. 



Stipites erecti, glabri, nitidi, graciles, hinc sulcati, basi castanei, superne virides. 



Frondes circumscriptione ovato-lanceolatae, bipinnatae, tenerae, membranaceae, pallide virides, pinnis ovatis, alternis, 



distantibus, patentibus, pinnulis cuneatis alternis decurrentibus trilobis, lobis nunc bifidis, plerumque emargi- 



natis obtusis, pinnulis frondium sterilium majoribus. 

 Sori in singulo segmento pinnularum venulis inserti, oblongi, non raro basi uniti, e capsulis numerosis fuscis, bre- 



vissime pedicellatis, annulo fere completo cinctis. 

 Semina numerosa, triangularia. v . 



Fig 



f. 



Pinmila ab inferiore parte visa, cum lineolis fructificantibus 

 L Capsula dehiscens, cum ejus seminibus. f. 4. 



f. 



Sor 



psulis plurimis abd 



Semin 



magn 





A species confined, we believe, wholly to the South of Europe. 



The specimens from which our figures and description were made, were gathered by M. Thomas 

 of Bex, in the Pyrenees. 



