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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



DIVISION II. Desmobrya. 



Fronds in vernation terminal, uniserial or fasciculate, their 

 bases adherent and continuous with the stem, which is either 

 a caudex or sarmentum. 



TRIBE IV. -ACROSTICHE.S!. 



Sori undefined (amorphous), naked. Fertile fronds or seg- 

 ments always more or less contracted ; the under side (or rarely 

 both sides) densely sporangiferous. Acrostichum, Linn. 



1. Elaphoglossece. Fronds always simple. Veins free or 

 rarely combined at the margin or reticulated. 



* Veins free. 

 29. ELAPHOGLOSSUM, Sclwtt.; J. Sm. 



Vernation uniserial and sarmentose, or subfasciculate and 

 decumbent, squamose. Stipes often pseudo-articulate, node 



Genus 29. Portion of barren frond, 

 under fide. No. 3. 



Genus 2Q. Portion of fertile 

 frond, under side. No. 8. 



