DOODIA. 69 



GENUS IX. 



DOODIA. R. Brown, 



A SMALL interesting family of dwarf Ferns, all having a 

 rugose habit. 



Fronds pinnatifid or pinnate; margins spinulose. 



Sori oblong, straight, or arcuated, and transversely uniserial 

 or biserial. 



Indusium plane, and of the same form as the sori. 



Fee, in his "Genres de la Famile des Polypodiacees,'* 

 enumerates the following species: — 



1. — Caudata. R. Brown. 



^. — Dives. Kunze. 



3. — Lumdata. E,. Brown. 



4. — Aspera. Hooker. 



5. — Kunthiana. Gaudichaud. 



6. — Connexa. Kunze. 



7. — Blechnoides. Cunningham. 



8. — Media. R. Brown. 



9. — Yirginica. Swartz, 



There are no British examples. 



