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DASYIiIKIOX. About eight species, natives of 

 Mexico-Texan North America, have been referred to this 

 genus. To those described on pp, 442-3, Vol. I., the 



following should now be added: 



D. quaclrang:ulatiiill (four-anj^Ied). /. small, disposed in a 

 dense, spike-lik« panicle ; flower-stem about 6ft. high. I. slender, 

 quadrangular, about 2ft. long. Stem stout, about 3ft. high, 

 crowned with a dense tuft of leaves. Texas, 1887. Stove or 

 greenhouse. (R. G. 1887, p. 280.) 



Davallia — continued. 



D. elegans polydactyla (many-fingered). This differs from the 

 type in the many-fingered, dilated apex of the frond, and of the 

 pinnse. which are all multifidly divided or crested in such a manner 

 as to give the plant an extremely ornamental character, 1882. 



D, ferruginea (rusty), atl wide- creeping, climbing, not prickly. 



/ro/it/i' quadripiiinatifid ; pinnules of the lower pinnae 2in. to 5in. 

 long, IJiu. broad, ovate ; segments lin. long, |in. broad, cut down 

 to the rachis below, the lobes Jin. to gin. broad, cuneate at base 



Fig. 14. Davallia 



^VUIFOLTA VeITCUIANA. 



DAVALLIA. To the species described on pp, 445-7, 

 Vol. L, the following should now be added: 



^'n •«nleata (prickly), rhiz, creepinjr, stout, fibrillose. *fi 



Bmuom. frrmdM tnpinnatifld ; lowor pinna 1ft to Uft. lone 4in 

 lo bin. broftd, ovate-lanceolate ; pinnules lanceolate. 2in to Sin* 

 K**i l":; broad; ^^^ments Jin. broad, cnoeate, deeply two to 

 HvM Sl^S?". *"'' *?^i'' *^"P'^aped, terminal. WeV Indies. 



tyraohycarpa 



A form of D. gibberoia. 



both deeply toothed and shallowly crenate. sori small, marginal, 

 shallow. Madagascar, 1887. Sv.n. Stenoloma femiginea. 



D, fijensis plumosa (feathery). In this variety the segments 

 are extremely narrow, and all parts of the frond have a speciaJiy 

 graceful, plumose appearance. 1882. 



D. foeniculacea (Fennel-like). sH. erect, firm, 6in. to 8in. long. 

 //[P'^f < &in. to lain, long, 6in. to 12in. broad, lanceolate-deitoiu, 



long, liu. broad ; segments cut down to the rachis into simpie^ 

 forked, linear, filiform, ultimate divisions, c 



one to two lines long, 



