TAB. XLV 



GYMNOGRAMMA 



CHiEROPHYLLA. 



FILICES. 



Gyrat^. Br. 



PoLYPODiACEiE. Kaulf. Filices verse. Willd., Spreng 



Gen. Char 



GYMNOGRAMMA, Desv 



inserti. Indusium nullum 



Des?;. 



Sori oblongi, venis frondis simplicibus furcatisve 



Frondes pinnatae bipinnatae, decompositaeve 



radices caespitosae 



Gymnogramma chcerophylL 



fronde tenera decomposita nuda, pinnulis fertilibus oblong 



bus flabelliformibus pinnatifidis inciso-lobatis, segmentis linearibus acutiusculis, rachi alata 



Gymnogramma chaerophylla 



Hemionitis chaerophyll 



Desv. Journ. de Bot. 1 813. p. 26 



Spreng. Syst. Veg. v.A.p 



Poir. in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. v. 3. #.39 



He 



Herb. Banks 



99 



(Menzies MSS.) 



Cult. In Hort. B 



Hab. In Paraguay. Desvaux. Brasilia. Commerson. Jamaica. Menzies, 

 apud Liverpool. Shepherd. 



TLadix caespitosa, fibrosa, fibris nigris ramosis. 



Stipites plurimi, ex eadem radice, digitales ad palmares, graciles, nitidi, subtetragoni, flavo-virescentes, basi nigro- 



fusci. 



Frons, circumscriptione, ovata, vel deltoidea, tenera, acuminata, tri-quadripinnata, ubique glabra, nuda. Pinnce 



primariae remotae, ovato-lanceolatae, vel in partem superiorem anguste lanceolatae, bipinnatse, inferioribus tri- 

 pinnatis, pinnulis pinnatifidis, inciso-lobatis, segmentis linearibus, acutis, rachibus ubique alatis. Pinnulce 



stcriles multoties latiores, fere flabelliformes. 

 Sori oblongi, furcati, in omnibus pinnulis dispositi. 

 Capsulcc laxe dispositae, sphaericae, sessiles, pulcherrime r 

 Semina triangularia, pallide viridi-flava. 

 Fig. 1. Pinna cum soris. f. 2. Capsulae. f. 3. Semina: 



Color pallide viridis 



incompleto 



magn. auct 



Tl 



del 



t 



and very beautiful Fern has, in a great degree, the liab 



d general appear 



of Cryptogranu 

 different figure. 



leptophylla ; but 



much lar 



6 



more divided, and the pinnules are of 



Th 



5 specimens here figured were communicated in 1826 by the Mes 

 Liverpool Botanic Garden, whence it was received from M. Otto of Berl 



Shepherds, from the 

 Our friend Mr. Men- 



zies has given us a specimen which he gathered in Jamaica, and which he has marked as the Hemi- 

 onitis cicutaria of the Banksian Herbarium ; a name certainly equally applicable with that already 

 published by Poiret and Desvaux. 



t 



Professor Raddi has not included this in his Fitices Brasilienses. 



