clothed with short, whorled ramelli, so as to appear shaggy; on the young 
branchlets the lowermost ramelli are short, the upper gradually longer, and 
as they lie closely (imbricating) they give to the branchlet the aspect of a 
club. The ramelli, when well developed, are alternately multifid pinnate 
in their upper, bi-tripinnate in their lower half; the tips are acute, but not 
acuminate ; the joints short. Cystocarps are found on very short, club- 
shaped pinnules or branchlets, issuing irregularly from the larger pinnules, 
which they resemble in structure and aspect ; the spores are mixed with 
innumerable paranemata. Tetraspores have not been observed. The colour 
is a brownish-red, becoming darker in the herbarium. The sudstance is 
rather rigid in the main stem, but very soft in the ramelli; and in drying, 
the frond closely adheres to paper. 
Nearly related to the Tasmanian I”. nobilis, to which in its 
denuded state it bears a very close resemblance, but from which, 
when in vigour, this is known by the strictly club-shaped 
branchlets, and their closely imbricating ramelli. 
Our plate has unfortunately been struck in too pale and too 
red an ink. 
Fig. 1. WRANGELIA CLAVIGERA,—the natural size. 2. A ramellus. 3. One 
of the short, club-like fruit branches, bearing a terminal cystocarp. 4 
Spores and paranemata from the cystocarp :—magnijied. 
