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LASTREA DILATATA. 



scaly. Copiously soriferous, covering the whole under surface 

 of the frond, and even young plants a few months old are 

 abundantly fertile. Sori large and distinct. Indusia con- 

 spicuously fringed, with stalked glands. 



Fig. 232.-Piiina. 



Vallida, Muore. (Fig. 232.) — Found at Nettle combe, 

 Somersetshire, by Mr. C. Elworthy, near Tunbridge Wells, by 

 Mr. W. W. Reeves, in Devonshire by the Rev. J. M. Chanter, 

 Dunphail, in Invernesshire, by Miss F. Brown, and in 

 Guernsey by Mr. C. Jackson. A handsome stout erect-growing 

 Fern, thick and fleshy. Fronds bipinnate, or often tripinnate, 

 large and broad. Stipes stout and moderately scaly. Pinnae 

 broad and crowded. Pinnules more or less divided, almost 

 to the midrib; oblong ovate, and curving somewhat forwards. 

 The lobes oblong obtuse, lobate-serrate, with bristle-tipped 

 teeth. The venules end on the margin on the upper 

 surface in a hair-like white line, giving a falsely strigose 

 appearance. A similar form has been found in Monkland 



