Portion of barren Frond— upper side. 



DOODIA CAUDATA. 

 Brown. Smith. Moore and Houlston. Schot: 



PLATE XXXI. A. VOL. IV. 



Doodia rupestris, Kaulfuss. Sieber. 



" " Presl. Schott. 



Doodya caudata, Kunze. 



" rupesiris, Link. 



Woodwardia caudata. Fee. 



Doodia — Named after Mr. Doody, a botanist. Caudata — Tailed. 



A COMMON species in English greenhouses, easily cultivated, 

 and propagating so freely from spores, that it springs up in 

 almost every Fern-pan. 



An evergreen greenhouse Fern. 



Native of New Holland, Australia, and Tasmania, (Van 

 Dieman's Land.) 



Kaised from spores at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1830. 



Fertile and sterile fronds different. Sterile fronds pinnate, 

 linear-oblong in form, and glabrous; pinnae oblong-obtuse, in- 

 ferior ones petiolate, the superior ones adnate. The margin 

 of the frond spinuloso-serrate. Fertile fronds contracted, 

 linear-lanceolate in form, also glabrous; pinnate, the pinnae 

 being linear and bluntly-acuminate; terminal pinna caudate, 

 and often an inch and a half long. 



