TADbD: COVIE 
LOMARIA GILLIESII. 
FILICES.—GvRnATx. Br. PorvropiACEE. Kaulf. VrirrcEs vere. Willd., Spreng. 
Grs. Cuag. LOMARLIA, Willd. | Scri lineares continui pinnas lineares frondis diverse occu- 
pantes. Zndusia marginalia vel submarginalia, conniventia, involventia. Aau/ /f. 
LoMARIA Giliesi; pinnata, frondis sterilis pinnis oblongis acutis brevissime petiolatis oblique 
lineatis margine cartilagineo-serratis basi cordatis, fertilis linearibus apice ultra soros serru- 
latis. 
-Has. Prope Mendoza. J. Gillies, M. D. 
Caudea» repens, squamosus, squamis paleaceis, magnis, nitidis, ferrugineis. 
Stipites digitales, erecti, subangulati, pallide flavo-fusci, glabri, nudi, aut ad basin solummodo squamosi. 
Frondes circumscriptione late ovatze, pinnatz; pinnis approximatis, alternis, 15—16, brevissime petiolatis, hori- 
zontaliter patentibus, oblongis, acutis vel acutiusculis, subcoriaceis, pallide viridibus, dense nervoso-lineatis, 
basi cordatis nunc subobliquis, margine argute cartilagineo-serratis; feriilibus magis remotis, dimidio lon- 
. gioribus, lineatis, marginibus revolutis, apicem versus solummodo serratis planis. 
Sori lineares, continui, versus marginem siti. 
Jnvolucrum lineare, arcuatum, continuum, marginibus laceratum. 
Capsule in nervos laterales insertze, globosce, annulatee, sublonge stipitatee. 
Semina ovalia, reniformia, limbata, limbo crenato. 
Fig.1. Portio pinnse fertilis. £2. Pars ejusdem. f.3. Capsule. f.4. Semina:—magn. auct. 
This is certainly allied to the Zomaria (Stegania Br.) procera, from New Holland; but that has 
very narrow fertile pinnz and a chaffy stipes: and, according to the description, also to Z. ornifolia 
Presl, which, however, has the pinnz only serrated at the extremity. 
