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FERNS I BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



their apices transversely combined by the receptacle. Sorus 

 linear, in the axis of a linear slightly intramarginal indusium, 



Genus 95 Portion of frond, natural size ; two ditto, enlarged. No. 1. 



the inner free margin of which connives with the inner margin 

 of the opposite indusium, ultimately becoming replicate, with 

 the sporangia of both sori confluent. 



1. O. Japonicum, Kunze. Trichomanes Japonicum, Tliunb. 



0. Capense, Kaulf. En. Fil. t. 1, /. 8. 0. lucidura, 

 Cat. Hort. Kew. (1856) (non Spreng.) (non Hook.). 

 Japan. 



2. O. auratum, Kaulf. Lomaria decomposita, D. Don. Pteris 



chrysocarpa, Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 107. East 

 Indies and Malayan Archipelago. 



96. PTERIS, Linn, (in part). 



Vernation fasciculate and erect or decumbent, or uniserial and 

 sarmentose. Fronds pinnate, bi-tri-quadripinnate, rarely simple, 

 from a few inches to six or more feet high ; the ultimate pinnse 

 entire, sinuose-lobed or pinnatifid. Veins forked ; sterile venules 

 free, the apices of the fertile transversely combined by the 



