AN ENUMERATION OF CULTIVATED FERNS. 



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pinnae entire, dentate or pinnatifid. 

 Veins forked or pinnate ; venules 

 ?free, their apices clavate, the lower 



exterior one sporangiferous. Recep- 

 '.tacles punctiform. Sori terminal, 



round. Indusium reniform or 

 : absent. 



a. Indusium absent. 



1. A. tenella, /. 8m. in Hook. Fil 

 Fl Nov. Zeal t. 82. Poly- 

 podium tenellum, Forst. 

 ScJik. Fil. t. 16. Poly- 

 podium filipes, Moore, in 

 Gard. Chron. (1855), 

 p. 368; Lowe's Ferns, 2, 

 t. 38. Arthropteris filipes, 

 J. 8m. Oat. Cult. Ferns 

 (1857). New Zealand. 



Genus 78. Pinna of No. 

 ditto No. 3, natural 



I. Indusium small, soon obliterated. 



2. A. obliterata, J. 8m. Nephrodium obliteratum, E. Br. 



Nephrolepis obliterata, Hook. Sp. Fil. 4, p. 154. 

 Lindssea Lowei,.Hbr. Australia, Malayan and Poly- 

 nesian Islands. 



c. Indusium evident, pinnce pinnatifid. 



3. A. albo-punctata, /. 8m. Aspidium albo-punctatum, 



Willd. Nephrodium albo-punctatum, Desv. ; Hook. 

 Fil. Exot. t. 89. Aspidium leucosticton, Kunze. 

 Aspidium (Lastrea) Boutonianum, Hook. Ic . PI. 

 t. 93. Mauritius, W. Tropical Africa. 



