8TENOCHL.ENA. 



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room for it. It has a creeping rhizome, and so may easily be 

 divided. 



STENOCHL^ENA. 



A genus of Ferns divided from Ac-rostfehum by Mr. John 



Smith, of Kew. 

 Name derived from 

 stenos, narrow, and 

 chlaina, a hood or 

 cloak, because of the 

 narrow covered mar- 

 gin of the spore-bear- 

 ing fronds. This is 

 a very -well -defined 

 genus, and very re- 

 rnarkable. The spore- 

 bearing fronds are 

 pinnated; and the 

 pinnules are long and 

 narrow, with the un- 

 der sides densely co- 

 vered with spore- 

 masses. The habit 

 of the genus is climb- 

 ing. "We have grown 

 the S. scandens 5 feet 

 high. 



STENOCHLJENA 

 SOEBIFOLIA (Sorb- 

 leaved). A climbing 

 Fern, but not very 

 lofty, from Jamaica. 

 Barren fronds pin- 

 nate, with bright 



Fig. 56. Stenochluena scandens. (Pinna of barren frond S reen leatner y pinnae, 

 and part of a pinna of fertile frond medium size.) Fertile fronds erect, 



