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FERNS I BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



122. LOXSOMA, E. Br. 



Vernation uniserial, sarmentose. Fronds long stipitate, 

 deltoid, decompound, 1-1 foot high, glaucous beneath ; lacinise 

 lanceolate, dentate. Veins simple or forked ; venules free, their 

 apices prolonged, forming a free columnar receptacle. Special 



Genus 122. Portions of barren and fertile frond, natural size 5 

 ditto, enlarged. No. 1. 



and Accessory Indusia united, forming a vertical, urceolate, 

 extrorse cyst. Sporangia obovate, pedicellate, seated round the 

 receptacle, which is elongated beyond the mouth of the indu- 

 sium. Eing of sporangium oblique. 



1. L. Cunningham!!, R. Br.; Hook, et Bauer. Gen. Fil.t. 15 ; 

 Comp. to Bot. Mag. t. 31, 32 ; Hook. Gard. Ferns, 

 t. 31. New Zealand. 



