Filices. 
342 
Fil. tab. 3. fig. 6.) The Ch. ides is also in the Kew 
ton ts gured by Hluttayn, (p. 120, ta. 96 
fs. &) lentigera, with tri somewhat villous 
fronds, with minute folioli, is a ry CF 
cies, (Comment. Petrop. x. p. 302, tab, 22, fig. 3.) 
Ch. arborescens is the species an erect stem 
This is the Lonchitis tenuifolia of Forster. 
(5.) Lonchitis, (Willd. 1977 ; Schreber, Gen. Plant.1629.) 
in separate crescent-shaped ps, inserted 
into the sinuses of the frond. The involucrum formedby 
the margin of the frond bent back, and ing inwards, 
This genus of Schreber seems to be more conve- 
niently united with the last by a slight alteration of the 
bo rr Iie four species of Lonchitis, ad- 
ded to Chei , will include, in all, twenty-four 
kindred species, to which Brown has added, from New 
Holland. 
. figu 
hirsula (Willd. Sp. 5.), gi BS) 1 ( Anleit. tab. 
4. fig. 27.), affords «pool iden of chi conn 
Davailia (insulated), (1978, Willd. Sp. Pl. 5 ; Smith, 
Act. Taur. 5, p. 414, tab. 9, fig. 6.) 
Capsules in punctiform marginal distinct groups; ins 
volucrum superficial, somewhat hooded, Geese out- 
Linneusformerly united the various es of this ge- 
nus with others, $9 Which @ietr ethentil appietaribe tnd 
habit seemed eee It is a distinct genus, how- 
ever, as Dr Smith has shewn. The groups are situa- 
ted on the veins or ramifications of the vascular fasei- 
culi, at the margin of the frond. Sprengel has 
an excellent figure of the generi 
fig. 38. ) in D. adiantoides, ( Willd.) an arborescent he 
i (Fils. 
it is observed, that Sprengel, whose accuracy is not 
i ight grounds, gives, as an il- 
Tustration of the us Adiantum, a fi taken from 
axterted by Swarts and Willdenow to be a 
5 - The Davallia hirsuta (Willd.) 
is Trichomanes hirsutum of Mogan # and Davallia 
It is figured 
+f renee (Alm. 156, peed fig. 2) an is the on- 
uropean species as yet known, ahd found in Pors 
and the Toland, 
Da. arborescens of Willdenow, the Filir arboe 
rescens adiantoides of Plumier, (Fil. t. 6.) is found in His: 
paniola. It is certainly difficult to devise appropriate 
ae names for so many plants, which, like the 
is, resemble each other so strongly ; but one would 
have thought the designation arborescens rather un- 
sppropriate, unless, which is impossible, we were cer- 
no other arborescent species of the genus exist- 
FILICES. 
ed. rash and plain phase qobes eat thas Ba 
acuminate, rape eee pinnule ; 
epg ber 
jualher te name Bid is bemereret” weet aid ha 
them bipinnate,) lanceolate, and ser. 
rated pinnule, w at the base. This sp 
might, from the present connection of Java this 
X. CYATHEACER. (Piatt CCLIV. Fig. soy 
Womans stan, bier chempanines cere 
so fréquently to’ refer, ‘frorh the 
ip the us Which we hive selected aé the ty 
tis snguler ee of fers. In all the tribes. 
the series hitherto noticed, the involucrum ‘is 
cial in this it is formed under the groups of 
capsules, tote ok Kew’ i che dupe ofa op) de 
, ed in xa 
cluding it genera, although in the 
Cyathea of Smith ws perenprly rghit inn 
gridit dp rs armnben ho the natur- 
al arrangement is essen t from’ that of ari 
artificial system, in which all the are riecessarily 
prewee oslrog a antes 
na series, the Ups ¢ other shades, 
Bhvedled, uttl ard alstapt only wived links 
of the series are either broken or or 
i 
i 
in’ distinet’ pointlike, of round niarginal 
grotips: Involuerum eup-shaped, double, of as it were 
ivalvé, had eel png ot ma py to 
vein, outwards ; the other spuriotis, 
be, ar Pos rte 07 fein om 
dk 2-3 ien, the cup ‘the 
is formed by the more or less perfect union of the in- 
yolucra, and thar Woah ae me cab there is, in 
sorié species, a sma serving rpose of the 
colurtinart y cle of the other 
Sprengel il, t. iv. 
this pe me a figtire of 
character of Polypodium, b 
ing this and several others. In 
fal situation of the groups of capsules, this genus exe 
ternally resembles Davallia; but # careful examination 
soon out the difference between their. A figar 
of Dicksonia flaccida (Willdenow and Swartz) is given 
also by Sechkuhr, (T. 129). This ferris the 7¥ichos 
manes flaccidum of Forster, (Prodr. 472). AN the » 
genera are foreign, and for the greatet , Ses 
veral of them have arborescentt, or erect stems ; although, 
in otder to shew the absurdity of such aspecifie rg, on 
tion, one- species only is terinel Di arboresiens. : 
species is native of St Helena. It has bipi fronds} 
with ovate, somewhat sharp, cnt wth tly 
united lobes, (Sin. Act. Tawr.iii/p.496)) The. , 
(Swartz, Syn. 136.) eit age kubr, is anothet 
rescent ue omiunes sq? 
erect, or a’ ‘osu 
Forst. Prodr. 476), The D. adianwoides (Huriiboldt 
Oe ee 
