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GENUS XI. 



WOODWAEDIA. Swartz. 



A SMALL and very dissimilar-looking family, with pinnate 

 fronds. Veins reticulated, becoming free near the margin. 

 Sori oblong, or linear-elongated, uniserial, and immersed, formed 

 upon the transverse costal venules. Indusium revolute and 

 vaulted. Rhizoma creeping. 



Fronds from twelve to seventy inches in length. 



This genus is named after Mr. Woodward, an English 

 botanist. 



There is no British representative. 



Presl, in his "Tentamen Pteridographise," enumerates the 

 following: — 



1. — Woodwardia radicans, Sioartz, (Woodwardia biserata, 

 Presl.) 



2. — Woodwardia stans, Swartz. 



S. — " angustifolia, Smith. (Woodwardia onocleoides, 



Willdenoiv.) 



4. — Woodwardia thelypteroides, PursJi. 



Mr. Smith, in his Catalogue of the Ferns grown at Kew, 

 the following: — 



1. — Woodwardia radicans, Sioartz. 



2. — Anchistea Virginica, Presl. 



3. — Lorinsoria areolata, Presl. 



Kunze, in his "Index Filicum," the following: — 



1. — Woodwardia angustifolia, Smith. 



2. — " Japonica, Sivartz. 



3. — " radicans, Swartz. 



4." • " Virginica, Swartz. 



Fee, in his "Genres de la Famille des Polypodiacees," the 

 following: — • 



1. — Woodwardia radicans, Swartz. 



2. — " Japonica, Swartz. 



