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loriceum of the New World, at least of that aberrant form of loriceum which 

 exhibits least of the produced superior base of the segtneiits ; not that this 

 structure is wanting in several of my specimens of amceuum. The caudex, how- 

 ever, seems to lose its paleaceous clothing and become smooth atid glaucous. 

 The fertile veinletis never so near the costa, and in loriceum there is never more 

 than one series of sori in them, and sometimes the stipes and racliis beneath are 

 a little paleaceous ; characters which, if the plant was found in the same country, 

 would scarcely be considered of im|)ortance. 



268. P. (Goiiioplilebium) lac/mopns, Wall. ; caudex long 

 creeping thick as a writing-pen densely clothed with long 

 black setaceous bristles, stipes 2-4 inches long stramineous- 

 brown, fronds membranaceous 6-8 inches to I5 foot long 

 li-3i inches wide oblong terminating in an acuminated 

 nearly entire apex deeply near to the rachis pectinato-pin- 

 natifid, segments linear or linear-oblong acute or obtuse ob- 

 scurely dentato-serrate, lowest pair sometimes deflexed, veins 

 forming a costal soriferous series of large areoles (partially 

 free), marginal veinlets short free clavate, soriferous veinlet 

 arising from the side of the vein distant from the costule, 

 sori orbicular rarely oval, nearer the costa than the margin, 

 rachis beneath often subpaleaceous with orijicular S])irmloso- 

 dentate scales terminated by a long seta. — ITall. Cat. n. 

 310. Hook. Ic. PL t. 952 [or Century of Ferns, t. 52). 

 Metteii. Polyp, p. 75. P. Fieldingianum, Kze. Herb. Met- 

 ten. Polyp, p. 75. 



Ilab. Nepal and Kamaon, Wallich. Khasya, alt. 4000-6000 feet, and Sikkim, 

 ^WQ-\\,i}m UeX, Hooker fil. and Thomson. .iwnXa, Edyeworlh, Griffith. Ka- 

 maon, alt. 7000 feet, Strachey and Winterbottom. — A pretty, neat species, re- 

 markable for the copious, black, setaceous clothing to the stipes, and the pecti- 

 nated fronds. 



*** Fronds pinnate (AmericanJ. Sp. 269-277. 



269. P. (Goniophlebium) dis.nmile, Linn.; caudex stout 

 creeping densely clothed with long reticulated subulate and 

 firmly attenuated blackish scales, stipes 4-6 inches long ra- 

 ther slender stramineous, fronds 1—2 feet and more long 4-8 

 inches wide tirm-membranaceous pubescenti-hirsute and sub- 

 viscid on both sides broad or elongato-oblong pinnate co- 

 adunately pinnatifid at the apex, pinnee horizontal very com- 

 monly opposite 2-4 inches long h to nearly | inch wide 

 subfalcate from a truncated sessile l)ase (the opposite pairs 

 so close at the base as to appear perfoliate) oblong more or 

 less obtusely or shar[)ly acuminated entire, lowest pair de- 

 flexed, veins united into two or three costal series of areoles 

 of which the lowest alone or two or all three are soriferous, 

 marginal veinlets free, sori rather small subrotund. — Li/m. 



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