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still darker-coloured costa and from which springs a crown of 

 fronds including the stipes 1-4 feet high of a very firm cori- 

 aceous texture, stipes (clothed at the hase with the long fal- 

 cate scales of the caudex) very stout quite as thick as a goose- 

 quill 4-6 inches to a foot long bluntly 4-sided uneven on the 

 surface furrowed on the upper side and having two rows of 

 tubercles or abortive pinna?, sterile fronds H-2 feet and 

 more long oval-oblong acuminate erect rigid pinnated with 

 numerous generally close-placed firm rigid pinnce, the termi- 

 nal ones only sometimes confluent at the base linear-oblong 

 obtuse or more rarely acuminate entire, dark-green above 

 rusty-brown beneatii, the base sessile truncate sometimes 

 unequally cordate more rarely with a sharp distinct auricle 

 on the lower base, veins close compact simple or forked in- 

 ternal and indistinct, _/(?r/?7c frond oblong obtuse, pinnjc very 

 closely placed rather broad-linear generally sessile and more 

 or less adnate obtuse or shortly acuminate, involucre dark- 

 brown slightly marginal, capsules eventually covering the 

 whole surface beneath, rachis clothed with crisped deciduous 

 ferruginous scales or naked. — Desv. in Mag. Nat. Berl. 1811, 

 p. 330, in Mem. Soc. Linn. par. vi. p. 289. Hook. Fl. Ant. 

 u.p. 393. Brack. Fil. U. S. Expl Exped. p. 126. Gay, Fl. 

 Chil. vi. p. 480. Bory, in Mem. Soc. Linn. par. iv. p. 597- 

 L. setigera, Gaud, in Ann. Sc. Nat. v. p. 98, a7id in Freyc. 

 Voy. Bot. p. 130. L. robusta, Carm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 Lond. xii. p. 512 {an Fee^). L. zamioides, Gardn. MSS. in 

 Herb. Hook. Blechnum Magellanicum, Metten. Fil. Lechl. 

 p. 14. Sturm, En. Fil. Chil. p. 26. L. Boryana, Willd. 

 Sp. PI. V. p. 292. Pappe and Rawson, En. Fil. Cap. p. 27- 

 Onoclea Boryana, Siv. S^jn. Fil. p. 111. /. 32. Blechnum 

 {Lomaria) Boryanum, Schlecht. Adunibr. Fil. Cap. p. 35. t. 19 

 [sterile fronds only). "Lomaria coriacea, Schrad. in Goetl. 

 Gel. Anz. 1818, ;x 916 {not Kze.)." L. cinnamomea, Kaulf. 

 Enuni. Flip. 153 {fide Schlecht.). L. Ryani, Kaulf . En. Fil. 

 p. 155. Kze. Anal. Pterid. t. 12. L. rufa, Spr. Syst. Veg. 

 iv. p. 63. L. cycadifolia, " Colla, PL Ear. Chil. p. 43. t. 71." 

 Blechnum cycadifolium, Sturm, En. Fil. Chil. p. 23. Pteris 

 palmaiformis, Thouars, Fl. Trist. d'Acugna. Lomaria lanu- 

 ginosa, Kze. Analect. Ptei'id. p. 1 9 {to which Sturm refers 

 L. Schottii, Colla, I. c. p. 44. t. 72). Ceterach, Pernetty, Voy. 

 u.p. 56. 



Hab. Straits of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego and Falkland Islands, very 

 abundant, Commerson, Freycinet, Pernetty, C. Darwin, J. D. Hooker (Herinite 



