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AN ENUMERATION 



OF 



CULTIVATED FERNS. 



ORDER L PILICES. 



Fronds circinately unfolding, uniform and leafy, bearing 

 sporangia on their under side or margin (rarely on both sides) ; 

 or of two forms, one leafy and sterile, the other wholly, or some 

 portion of its segments more or less contracted and fertile. 

 Sporangia membraneous, one-celled, free, furnished with a 

 vertical, horizontal, or oblique articulated elastic ring. 



SUB-ORDER I. POLYPODIACEJE. 



Sporangia globose or oval, unilocular, pedicellate or sessile, 

 membraneous, furnished with a vertical ring, and opening at a 

 right angle to the direction of the ring. 



DIVISION I. Eremobrya. 



Fronds in vernation lateral, solitary, attached to the axis 

 (rhizome) by a special articulation. 



* Sori indusiate. 



TRIBE L OLEANDRE^. 



Sori round, medial. Indusivm lateral, interiorly attached or 

 sometimes central, plane. 



