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HYMENOPHYLLUM HIRSUTUM 



FILICES.— Gyrat*. Br. 



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Polypodiace;e. Kaulf. Filices verae. Willd 



Gen. Char. HYMENOPHYLLUM. Smith 



Sori marginales. Capsulce sessiles, receptaculo 



communi cylindraceo inserta^ intra Involucrum bivalve, textura frondis, valvis planis, exterius 



liberis. Br. 



Hymenophyllum hirsutum ; (stellatim hirsutum) ; fronde pinnata, pinnis linearibus obtusis nunc 



bifidis digitatisve, stipite hirsuto. 

 , Hymenophyllum hirsutum. Swartz. Fl. Ind. Occ. v.3.p. 1746. Syn. Fl.p. 146. Willd. Sp. 



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Pl. v. 5. p. 5 17. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 134. Reliq. Hcenk. p. 69. Raddi, Fil. Brasil 



P 



66 



79- / 3 



Trichomanes hirsutum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 156l 

 Trichomanes rigidum. u Hediv. Fil. (in icone 

 Filicula digitata. Plum. Fil. p. 73. t. 50. B ? 





T.fragile est nuncupatum.) 





Hab. In Hispaniola? Plumier. Ad truncos arborum in umbrosis montium altissimorum 

 Jamaicae. Swartz., D. Lunan. In Insula Trinitatis. I). Lockhart. Brasil. Raddi. In 

 montanis Peruviae ad Huanocco. Hcenke. 



Caadex gracillimus, filiformis, repens, radiculis fibrosis pilosis hic illic descendentibus. 



Stipes quoque gracillimus, duas lineas etiam ad duas vel tres uncias longus, fuscus, superne subalatus, paululum 



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hirsutus. * 



Frons forma variat, nunc, 



circumscript 



unciam vel sesquiunciam long; 



bi-tripollicaris, circum- 



scriptione lanceolata, pinnata, pinnis infimis solummodo liberis, reliquis decurrentibus, coadunatis, (et ita 

 pinnatifida est frons,) linearibus, obtusis, inferioribus bifidis, palmatisve (Swartz.), vel etiam pinnatifidis 



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{Hcenke\ omnibus costatis, costa tenui aterrima, et undique pulcherrime stellatim villosis. 

 Sori prsecipue in pinnis laciniisve superioribus frondis, solitarii, terminales. 







pilosum; parte inferiore cuneata, immersa, superiore libera, bivalvi 



Ifivolucrum, ad margines prsecipue, stellatc 



valvis semiorbicularibus. 

 Receptaculum parvum, inclusum. 

 Capsulce parvae, fuscse, peltatae, annulo int 

 Semina ovalia, subpellucida, pallide fusco-flavescentia. 

 Fiff. 1. Pinnae vel lacinise frondis. f. 2. Portio apicis pinnae fertilis cum soro. f. 



magn. auct. 





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Capsulae 



f. 



Semina 



Much as this plant is 



liabl 



vary 



the length of the stipes and shape of the frond, we 



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ly 



ourselves that the reference of authors to Plumier is correct. 



H 



Pl 



thrice the size of ours, every where deeply bipinnatifid, and having a distinctly winged stip 



Yet 



that is probably the original authority of Linnaaus. Raddi is disposed to refer it to his Hymeno 



phyllum Boryanum. 



In our specimens the fronds might rather be called pinnatifid than pinnate ; and the segments ar< 



never more than bifid, more frequentlyquite entire. 





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