Pinna of mature Frond — upper side. 



HYPOLEPIS KEPENS. 



Presl. Hooker. Link. Fee. Bauer. 

 Moore and Houlston. J. Smith. Sieber. Plumier, 



PLATE XI. VOL. IV. 



Lonchitis repens, 



Cheilanthes repens, 



" acaleata, 



DicJcsonia acideata. 



Linnaeus. Plumtee. Eaddi. 



SWABTZ. WiLLDENOW. 



Kaulfuss. Kunze. 

 Kaulfuss. Kunze. 

 Sprengel. 



Hypolepis — From two Greek words, implying under, and a scale. 



Repens — Creeping. 



A HANDSOME, lobust, coaise-growing Fern, which seeds so 

 freely, that when once obtained it is almost impossible to lose, 

 indeed it becomes a troublesome weed, covering every Fern- 

 pan, to the exclusion of all less robust species. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of the West Indies, Martinique, Jamaica, Brazil, 

 Organ Mountains, Galapagos, Columbia, and New Grenada. 



Introduced into England in 1825, and into the Royal Gar- 

 dens, Kew, in the year 1828. 



Fronds decompound, three to four times pinnate, with 

 lanceolate-acuminate pinnules, and oblong-linear pinnatifid seg- 

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