filices. (ferns.) 587 



Trip? VII. ASPIDIE/E. — Fruit-dots at or below the ends of the veins, round, or 

 somewhat oblong and then placed aeross the vein. Indusium round or nearly so, fixed 

 in the middle and opening at the margin, or reniforui und fixed at the siuus. 

 » Fertile and sterile fronds alike. 



12. CYSTOPTERIS. Indusium on the back of the veinlet, hood-shaped, fixed at the base 



partly under the fruit-dot, opening toward the apex of the segment. 



13. ASPIDIUM. Indusium mostly on the back of the veins, orbicular or round-rcniform, 



fixed in the middle or at the sinus, opening all round the margin. 



14. NEPHKOr.Kl'IS Indusium at the end of a free vein, reniform, fixed at the sinus or by 



the arcuate base, opening toward the margin of the frond. 



* * Fertile and sterile fronds different. 



15. ONOCLEA. Fertile fronds contracted, the divisions rolled up and berry-like. 



Tribe VTIT. WOODSIE-flE. — Fruit-dots round, borne on the back of a free vein. In- 

 dusium fixed beneath the fruit-dot, saucer-shaped, or globose and bursting at the top. 



16. WOODSIA. Indusium divided into irregular lobes, or a capillary fringe. 



Tribe IX. DICKSONIE JE. — Fruit-dots marginal, roundish, borne at the ends of the 

 free veins. Indusium cup-shaped or two-valved, its outer part composed of a relluxed 

 lobe of the frond, or more or less united with it. 



17. DICKSONIA. Indusium (in our species) small, nearly globular, membranaceous. 



Suborder II. HTMENOPHTLLEiE. Sporangia borne on a seti- 

 form or slender receptacle, cellular-reticulated, surrounded by a complete 

 transverse ring. Involucres marginal, at the ends of the veins, cup-shaped 

 or two-valved. Fronds delicately membranaceous and pellucid. 



18. TRICHOMANES. Involucre cup-shaped or funnel-shaped, sometimes 2-lipped. 



Suborder III. SCHIZiEINEiE. Sporangia large, borne on narrow 

 segments of the frond, oval, cellular-reticulated, crowned by the converg- 

 ing striae of a complete apical ring, opening longitudinally. 



19. LYGODIDM. Sporangia attached laterally in two rows to the narrow divisions of the 



pinnae, each one covered by a scale-like indusium. 



20. ANEMIA. Sporangia attached by their bases to the narrow divisions of the panicled 



fertile branches of the frond. Indusium none. 



Suborder IV. OSMUNDESTEiE. Sporangia large, nearly sessile 

 on the back or margins of the mostly contracted fertile fronds, two- 

 valved, opening vertically at the apex. Ring rudimentary or none. 



21. OSMUNDA. Sporangia globular, covering the contracted fronds or portions of fronds. 



Suborder V. OPHIOGLOSSE^E. Sporangia very large, sessile, 

 spiked or panicled, coriaceous, not reticulated, on narrow divisions of the 

 frond, destitute of a ring, transversely two-valved. Fronds not circulate 

 in vernation. 



22. BOTRYCHIUM. Sporangia in panicled spikes. Sterile part of the frond pinnately di- 



vided. 



23. OPHIOGLOSSUM. Sporangia ia a simple spike. Sterile part of the frond simple in our 



species. 



