TAB. LXXXV 



TRICHOMANES 



HUMILE 



FILICES.— GYEATiE. Br. 



PoLYPODiACEiE. Kaulf Filices verae. mild., Spreng. 



Gen. C 



TRICHOMANES, Smith 



Sori marginales. Capsulce sessiles, receptaculo 



ylindraceo insertae, intra Involucrum monophyllum, suburceolatum, ore hiante, textura 



frondis. B 





Trichomanes kumile 





; fronde lanceolata bipinnatifida glabra i 

 gerrimis, involucris oblongo-cylindraceis, ore bilabiato 



b 



lac 



linearibus obtusis 



Trichomanes humile 



Fo? 



Prodr 



464 



Hedw. Fil. Ic. ft 



3 



*» 



Swartz. Sy 



Fil 



p. 143. et p. 371. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 50f. Spreng. Sy 

 Hab. In Societatis Insulis. Forster. Insula Otaheite. Menzies 



Veg 



P 



29 



u 



Caudex repens, gracilis, filiformis, tomentosus, hic illic radiculosus, radicibus capillaribus ramosis 

 Stipes duas ad tres uncias longus, glaber, filiformis. 



Frondes tri-, rarius quadri-polli 



circumscriptione, lato-lanceolatae, bipinnatifidas, glabrse, atro-virides, pul 



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cherrime reticulatae (areolis suborbicularibus majusculis), costatae, marginatae, laciniis linearibus obtusis 

 apice bifidis. 



Sori marginales, subaxillares, solitarii. 



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Jnvolucra oblongo-cylindracea, marginata, ore bilabiato. 



Receptaculum filiforme, sublonge exsertum, basi incrassatum. 



Capsulce intra involucrum inclusae, peltatae, annulo magno, articulato, subplicato cinctae. 



Semina sub summo lente reticulata, subsphaerica, pallide flava, hyalina. 



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Fig. 1. Portio frondis cum soris. f. 2. Portio frondis ut reticulationes et margo videantur. f. 3. Involucrum 



verticaliter sectum. f. 4. 4. Capsulae. f. 5. Semina : 



magn. auct. 





Hedwig and Willdenow describe the margin of this rare species of Trichomanes as serrated or 

 serrulated. We find no such appearance in our specimens, gathered by Mr. Menzies in Otaheite ; 

 nor does its original discoverer Forster, nor Swartz (who seems to have described it from authentic 

 specimens), notice such a peculiarity. The margined appearance of the frond 



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thickening of the very edge, but from a nerve runnii 



arises not from a 

 g along, parallel with, but at a little distance 



from, the margin, and which is connected with the margin by means of transverse veins or bar 





