Ser. MELANosPERMEyE. Fain, hldijotaced. 



Plate CXCV. 



ZONARIA MICROPHYLLA, iiaw. 



Gen. Chaii. Root woolly. Frond flat, ribless, coriaceo-membranaceous, 

 flabelliformj entire or vertically multifid ; the surface-cellules set in 

 longitudiual Hues, radiating from the base of the segments. Fructiji' 

 cation : spores superficial, collected in spot-like sori, and mixed with 

 jointed paranemata. — Zonakia {Af/.), from ^covrj, a zofie or girdle; 

 because the frond, in many species, is marked with distant concen- 

 tric lines. 



Radix stuposa. Frons plana, ecostata, coriaceo-memhrauacea , flabellata, Integra 

 V. multisecta ; cellnlis superJiciaUbus in lineas longitiid'males e hau laclnia- 

 rum radianten ordinatis. Fruct., spora hi soros macidiformes collector, para- 

 nematihns articulatis stipatne. 



ZoNARiA microjihylla ; frond erect, dendroid ; stipes elongate, much 

 branched, stupose ; branches breaking up into very numerous, flabcl- 

 lulate, bipinnato-multifid and lacerate, glabrous segments; the apical 

 laciniee truncate, the lateral subulate, acute ; zones inconspicuous. 



Z. microphylla ; fronde erectmscida dendroidea ; stipite elongato ramosismno 

 sft/poso ; ramis in laminas numcrosissimas angustisslmnsjlabellatlm bipinnati- 

 Jido-muUiJidas glabras abenutibns ; lacinnlis terminalibua truncatis, laterqllhm 

 subidatis acidls ; zonis obsoletis. 



ZoNARlA microphylla, Harv. Ahj. Austr. Exsic. n. 81. 



IIab. South Australia, I)r. Curdle. Port Fairy, IF. H. H. Port Phillip 

 Heads, I)r. Mueller. 



Geogr. Distr. South coast of Australia. 



Descr. Root a broad callus, coated with curled hairs. Frond subsolitary, tree- 

 hko, branched toward all sides, 3-6 inches high and as much in the expan- 

 sion of the branches. Stipes terete, 2-3 lines in diameter, elongate, much 

 branched, coated to the ends of all the branches with foxy, curled hairs ; 

 deusely beset along the sides with small flabelliform laminae, and termiu;iting 

 in a dense fascicle of similar laminae. These lamince are scarcely half an inch 

 long, very much cut, in a subpiiniate manner, into shred-like lacinia^, less 

 than half a line wide, the lateral ones subulate and very acute, the terminal 

 truncate. Zones are obsolete ; but the truncate apices are darkened and 

 zoned as in others of the gemis. Fruit has not been observed. The colour 

 when growing is a dark olive-brown. The substance is rigid, and the plant 

 does not adhere to paper in drying. 



To the eye this plant bears considerable resemblance to coarse 



