16 LOMARIA. 



and west of it, may very likely have been detected on some of the mountains of 

 South Africa ? 



The numbers of synonyms given under this species will show the various 

 opinions of botanists as to its pro])er genus. If the very young sori he insj)ected, 

 the fructification is indicative of Blcchnum, hut the habit and dimorphous fronds 

 are characteristic of Lomaria. There is a remarkable variety or monstrosity of 

 this species found in West Derbyshire, near Liverpool, bv Mr. Henry Robson, 

 which is proliferous at the end with numerous rei)eatedly dichotomous branches. 

 Our var. y. is distinguished by its very tall size, the largest of them measuring 

 more than two feet. Var. /3, from Japan, may possibly prove a distinct species. 

 I possess only one specimen. Besides the greater breadth of the sterile frond 

 in the middle, and consequently the longer segments, the entire short stipes 

 of the sterile frond, and the lower portion of the stipes of the fertile frond, 

 quite shaggy with long, narrow subulate, very glossy, almost aureous scales, are 

 characteristic marks. 



18. L. cilpina, Spr. ; small, caudex elongated creeping 

 rarely thickening to any extent subfiliform branched scaly 

 at the extremities and at the origin of the stipites, fronds 

 fasciculated stipitate coriaceous oblongo-lanceolate scarcely 

 contracted at the base, sterile fronds pinnatifid nearly to the 

 rachis, segments approximate horizontal oval-oblong obtuse 

 entire glabrous, stipes short, fertile ones on long naked 

 stipites pinnated, pinnae rather distant sessile horizontal 

 linear-oblong obtuse subfalcate uppermost ones only sub- 

 confluent, involucres inserted a little within the margin 

 serrulate. — Spreng. Si/st. Veget. iv. p. G2. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Antarct. \\. p. 39.3. t. 150. Ft. Nov. Zeal. ii. />. 30. Brackenr. 

 Fil. Un. St. Explor. Eocped. p. 123. Hook. Fil. Exot.pl. 32. 

 Stegania alpina, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 152. L. poly- 

 podioides. Gaud, in Frey. Vog. Bot. p. 374. L. australis, 

 Kze. Coll. PL Pwp. p. 57. Gag, Fl. C/iil. vi. p. 481. L. 

 microphylla, Goldm. in N. Act. L. C. 16. Suppl. ii. p. 460. 

 L. antarctica, Carm. in Linn. Soc. Trans, xii. 512. L. 

 linearis, Colens. in Tasman. Phil. Journ. p. 176. Blechnum 

 alpinum, Metten. Fil. Hart. Bot. Lips. p. 64. Lomaria 

 Gayana, Fee, in Fl. Chit. vi. p. 481. and in Fovg. 7 me. Mem. 

 p.25.t.\0.f.l. L. Sellowiana, Pr. Tent. Pterid. {name 

 only) fide Klotzsch in Herb. Nostr. L. Pccppigianum, Sturm, 

 En. Fit. Chil. p. 26. L. trichomanoides, Desv. in Mem. Soc. 

 Linn. \\. p. 287- Acrostichum polypodioides {polytrichioides 

 in text), Dti Pet. Tli. Fl. Trist. d'Acugna, p. 32. t. 2. Po- 

 lypodium Pinna-marina, Poir. in Lain. Cycl. v. p. 520 {fide 

 Hook. fil.). 



Hab. Temperate and cold regions of the southern hemisphere: apparently 

 first discovered by Commerson, in the Straits of Magellan, where it is very 

 abundant, as well as on Ilermitc Island (./. D. Hooker), Ca))e Horn, and along 



