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FEENS : BRITISH AND FOEEIGN. 



smooth. Fronds of two forms, 2-3 feet long, the sterile pinnate, 

 the fertile contracted, pinnate or bipinnate ; pinnae articulated 

 with the rachis. Veins rising from an obscure, transverse vein 

 continuous with, and close to, the costa; venules direct, their 

 apices clavate, united, forming a pellucid, cartilaginous, spinulose 

 margin ; fertile segments linear, rachiform, margin membrana- 

 ceous, revolute, indusiform. Sporangiferous receptacle linear, 

 continuous; sporangia confluent. 



* Fertile fronds pinnate. 



1. S. heteromorplia, J. 8m. Stenochlasna heteromorpha, 



J. 8m. Gen. Fil. (1841). Lomaria filiformis, A. Cunn. ; 

 Hook. 8p. Fil. 3, 1. 149. Lomaria propinqua, A. Cunn. 

 New Zealand. 



2. S. scandens, J". 8m. ; Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 105 B. Aero- 



stichum scandens, Linn. Onoclea scandens, Linn. 

 Herb.; Schk. Fil. 1. 106. Lomaria scandens, Willd. 

 East Indies and Malayan Islands. 

 ** Fertile fronds bipinnate. 



3. S. Meyeriana, J. 8m.; Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 47, 48. Lo- 



maria Meyeriana, Kunze. Lomariobotrys Meyeriana, 

 Fee. Stenochlaena tenuifolia, T.Moore. ? Lomaria 

 tenuifolia, Desv. StenochlaBna scandens, Hort. Acro- 

 stichum Meyerianum, Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 16. 

 South Africa. 



109. SALPICHL^INA, /. 8m. 



Vernation subfasciculate, decumbent. Fronds bipinnate, 



Genus 10Q. Portion of barren and fertile pinna, natural size. No. l. 



