332 FILS 
(2.) Danewa. (Sm. Act. Taur.) 
Seed-vessels narrow, linear, transverse, parallel to 
each other, imbedded in the substance of the frond. 
the oblong sing 
the of capsules in that 
sae sheaves There is a re of the 
ae. pre apes in the Annals of Botany, ii, Pi. 
Three species are described by iidenov all natives of 
Ra ot ie the D. See ga ioe (Rudge, BS mir 
tab. 36.) D. nosa, (Plum, Pl. American, 6.) ‘and 
D. alata, (Plum. Fil. tab. 109.) 
II, GLEICHENIACE2, re 
The era of this tribe proach much nearer to the 
aia the lant, _ The seeds are con- 
or obli , and the es burst lo tudinally in 
ign of the ae grou’ se aaa, ua a es 
pe de Mertensia, have a very number of’ cap- 
GenERA. 
(1.) Angiopteris, (Willd, 1944.) 
Capsules elli ical, disposed in groups of five or seyen, 
in double rms lng ti secondary veins of the frond, 
per cern, ste 
Fi of nag igured. b pci, the G a 
own, 2 * Ms» els 
29. tab. 5.) Tits stagics eee taquattion the islanls 
of the South Sea by Forster ; and Swartz has represent- ~ 
ed the generic character in the Annals of Botany, PI. 
10. fig. 4. This species is five feet in height, ond gs 
the aspect of a small palm, 
(2.) Gleichenia, (Sm. Act. Taur. 5. p. 419. T.9. 10. 
) Willd, Sp. Pl. 5. 1945.) . rate 
les disposed in point-like Broups of three Orforr Goan 
ne us, the lobes of the frond are rolled ‘back- 
tp Gi. apornaes was ranked by Linneus 
gard to the want ve a ring. 
Guys Mpodilder ir’ wait of ths of Good He 
and two others, viz. Gl. circinata, and Gi. glauea, 
described by Willdenow and Swartz. To these Brox 
has added ag ll p= hone of which are ; t 
is the Mertensia dichotoma ot Swarts, and Dicran we 
- In Gleichenia the fronds ‘are dichoto 
(8.) Platizoma. (Brown, Prodr. Nov: Holl. 
point-like 
Capsules sessile, mixed with powder, and in’ “Gistnet la 
groups. 
CES. 
_Mr tat ng Glee yt etry 
ih the Pree ston, bat 
(4.) Mertensia. (am, 1906 p65) 
ot anaes semi- 
This genus was ft Feit 
founded with Polypodium, The 
reper peel 
fn sue te pms 
in Osmundz, eh ay 
mint gt 
i pr gt A 
Genera. comin: 
(ay Todea. (Willd. 1947.) L Seat 
Capsules wire a semi-bivalve, on st 
veins of the rans oe 
There is Asin speci only, the 
scribed and figured (ae CA 
‘tab. 3.) and i Pubcnee sate 
is the Osmu barbara, 
ing to Brown, Todea iste res ‘ ae Sta? 
genus distinct from Osmunda, as it possesses pedicill 
cant) Mohiria. owina. 1918.) ape 
somewhat: 
aoe 
poe a ed ren 
pein ops 
tee | is but 0 one pec 4) fs a : 
pe au Eee Sea 1 
? lasesay 
(3. iaiotel (Opltoglaiuny . 
aaa 
Spee 
. 
or frond, covered vith sc scalp, "end g long’ 
“i 
a fine figure of this 
pricrrd We me ied Wh Opa, i 
gaara eae 
has no affi w 
To the 
accuracy of Brown we are indebted for 
first notice of the car erg eo of ‘the ¢ 
-to the receptacl most correct character | 
Brown and Swartz, Seueh i ere 
bee to ri of vapors (Sp. Pl. 577; ) wherein 
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