TRICHOMANES. 465 



ol)OViite pinnatifid pinnl. ; ^cr^wrc membranous ; co?o?<r yellowish-green, the riljs 

 obscurely setulose ; sori few, axillary ; inv. immersed, cylindrical, with a dilated 

 mouth. — Kuhn, Linn. 35. p. S^G. 



Hab. Aneiteuni, Macgillivray, 53. 



24*. T. concinnum, Mett. ; rhizome filiform, tomentose ; 5;;. 3-4 lin., proliferous, 

 wiufied upwards ; //•. ovate, ^-f in. 1., rounded at the top, cuncate at the base, 

 bipinnatifid ; racliis winged througliout ; lower j^i-nnas flabellately pinnatifid 

 w'ith bilid lowest 2>in)il. ; texture mcmhvanons ; both 52t/t',9 glabrous, light-green; 

 sori usually lateral, rarely terminal ; inv. cylindrical, immersed, dilated at the 

 mouth. — Kuhn, Linn, Qo, />. 385. 



Hab. Tahiti, Vicillard, Vesco. 



26*. T. Armstrongii, Baker ; rhizome capillary, wide-creeping ; st. filiform, 

 \-\ in. ; fr. \ in. 1., simple or forked or flabellately divided, with few blunt 

 simple or lowest rarely forked 1-veined ligulate erecto-patent divisions, |-1 

 lin. br. ; border as distinct as the midrib, bristle ciliated ; surfaces glabrous ; sori 

 1-4 to a frond, terminal on the lobes, minute, obconical, immersed, with rounded 

 ciliated lips. 



Hab. New Zealand, Armstrong. 



31. T.pusillumy var. quercifolium (H. & G.) ; much longer than the type, with 

 many deep primary divisions, the central again pinnatifid. 



31*. T. vlridans, Mett. ; rhizome capillary, tomentose ; st. ^-|- in., flattened, 

 tomentose below ; /}'. rhomboid-oblong, cuneate at the base, ^-| in. 1., bipin- 

 natifid, cut down to a broad wing into a few crowded pinnte, the lower with 

 several short ligulate 1-veined much-ascending lobes ; several spurious venules 

 parallel with the midrib ; colour bright-green ; surfaces naked ; sori copious, 

 terminal on lobes ; ino. 1 lin. deep, nearly free, with a deep funnel-shaped tube 

 and small rounded lips. — Kuhn, Linn. 85. p. 389. 



Hab. Moulmein, Rev. C. Parish, 



32*. T. mclanopus, Baker ; rhizome wide-creeping, thickly black-tomentosc ; 

 St. very short, winged upwards ; fr. \-\ in. 1., oblong or roundish, bipinnatifid ; 

 pinnrc many, crowded, patent, much crisjied, closely repand or pinnatifid, with 

 rounded or oblong lobes, \ lin. br. ; edge distantly ciliated, with large deciduous 

 bristles ; texture membranous ; colour yellow-green ; midrib zigzag, sending out 

 many erecto-patent bi'anches to the edge ; sori few, free, terminal ; inv. 1 lin. 

 deep, with a funnel-shaped tube and distinct rounded lips. — T. Krausii, var. 

 crispatum, edit. 1. 



Hub. Andes of Ecuador, Spruce, 5354. 



32*. T. suhsessile, Mett. ; rhizome capillary, densely black-tomentose ; fr. 

 subsessile, ^-| in. 1., rhomboid-ol)long, rounded at the top, cuneate at the base, 

 bipinnatifid ; pinnce crowded, erecto-patent, the lowest flabellate-pinnatifid, with 

 ligulate close lobes \ lin. br. ; texture membranous ; colour pale-green ; surfaces 

 glabrous ; sori few, terminal ; inv. with an immersed funnel-shaped tube and 

 dilated entire mouih.—Kithn, Fil. Afric.p. 37. 



Hab. West Tropical Africa, on the banks of the Bagroo river, Q. Mann. 



44*. T. alternans, Carruth. ; rhizome naked, filiform, wide-creeping ; st. 

 scarcely any ',//*. ^- 1 in. 1., rhomboid, 1-2-pinnatifid, with a few distant very 

 narrow (| line) ascending 1-veined divisions, with hyaline border ; rachis winged 

 throughout; lower />j/i«(e erecto-patent, 3-4 lin. L, simple or pinnatifid, with 



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