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which perfectly corresponds to Baker's description, and it 

 is, as is shown by the accompanying figures totally diffé- 

 rent from T. Lenormandi. 

 In gênerai habit it re- 

 sembles mnch more T. 

 digitatum and its allies, 

 but really it belongs to 

 the section Microgonium, 

 although not closely re- 

 lated to any known spe- 

 cies. The figures give an 

 idea of the shape of the 

 lamina, which is rather 

 variable. The linear, cre- 

 nate segments contain se- 

 veral very oblique veins, 

 that at the tips are 

 united by a continuons, 

 intramarginal spurious 

 vein, and between the 

 veins are several mani- 

 festly longer or shorter 

 spurious veins. The sori 

 are placed either at the 



apex of short primary 

 ^ i • il Fig. 3. Triehomanes Kirkii Hook. a, a, two 



segments m the _ upper ^j^^^^ ^^^ ^.^^ . ^^ f.^g^e^t^ ^jth aorus, x 4 ; 



part 01 the lamnia, or ^^ fragment, more magnified, showing spurious 

 at the apex of short veins. - C. Chr. del. 



secondary segments from 



the upper edge of the lower and larger primary segments. 

 The cylindrical indusium has a widened mouth, but is 

 scarcely two-lipped. 



Triehomanes Bonaparte! C. Chr. spec. nov. — Fig. 4. 



Species parva subgeneris Gonocormi sect. Microtrichomanis 

 Prantl, Hym. 51, rhizomate filiformi rufo-piloso, repente; 

 stipite vix 1 cm longo; lamina lutescenti-viridi, diaphana, 

 plana, e basi longe cuneata (stipite sursum late alato) 

 subito dilatata late ovata, sub 2 cm longa ac lata, ad alam 

 sub 1 mm latam pinnatifida; pinnis 2 — S-jugis, integris vel 



