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SCHIZJJA PUSILLA. 



PIUCES.-OSMBHDACES. Br., Kaul/. SCHISMATOPTKBIDE8. Wi/U, 



Gleichenie;e. Spreng. 



SCRIZJEA. 



Sm. eV™/,*. ovales, sessiles, apice radiatim striato, basi insertEe in 

 appendtce d^visa terminali frondis dorsales. Indusium e marginibus inflexis appendicis con- 

 tinuum, mtus liberum. Br. 



Schiz^a pusilla , frondibus indivisis lineari-filiformibus sterilibus multo brevioribus siccitate tor- 

 tuosis integerrimis, appendice pinnata subquinquejuga, laciniis oblongo-linearibus ciliatis. 

 Schizaea pusilla. Pursh, Fl. N Am. v. 2. p. 657. Nutt. Gen. of N Am. Pl. v. 2. p. 24 9 . 

 Eaton, Manual of Botanrj, p. 446. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 4. p. 30. 

 Hab. Paludosis, inter sphagna, Americ* Septentrionalis, rarissime : in uno loco hucusque, ut 

 videtur, lecta, Quaker-Bridge dicto, provincia Nov* Csesareae. Eddy (fide Nuttallii). 



Radix fibrosa, fibris simplicibus fuscis sublonge inter muscos descendentibus. 

 Caudcx omnino nullus. 



cces 



w - —7 -„™ u ..^«,o ±uug«c, uasi uue- 



nuat*, sursum latiores, falcato-curvatae, rigidiusculae, siccitate tortuoss., glauco-virides, vix costate ; fertiles 



duplo triplove longiores, digitales, erectae, basi apiceque attenuatae. 

 Appendix fructificam vix semiunciam longa, pinnata, pinnis per paria dispositis subquinquejugis, secundis, oblongo- 



linearibus, dorso convexis, medio costatis, costa hinc prominente, marginibus seu involucris ciliatis. 

 Capsula? in duas lineas dispositae, majusculse, ovatee, hinc gibbosae, reticulatae, apice radiatim striato. 

 Semina reniformi-cylindracea, opaca, obscure pallide viridia. 



Fig. 1. Planta:— magn. nat. in sphagna proveniens. f. 2. Eadem:— magn. auct. f. 3. Pinna appendicis fructifi- 

 cantis. f. 4. Capsula. f. 5. Semina:— masn. auct. 



Mr. Pursh seems to consider that the minuteness of this plant may have caused it in many cases 

 to be passed by unobserved : but hitherto we believe no one has detected it except in the spot 

 where it was originally discovered, as we learn from Mr. NuttalL, by Dr. Eddy of New York. 



Our specimens were gathered by Dr. Torrey, who informs us that the spot (Quaker-Bridge, in 

 Burlington County, New Jersey) is thirty-one miles N.W. from Philadelphia :— so that it grows 

 further from the tropics than any species of the genus we are yet acquainted with. 



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