LOMARIA. 



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GENUS XIV. 



LOMAETA. WiLLDENOw. 



An interesting genus, having simple, pinnatifid, pinnate, or 

 bipinnatifid fronds; the fertile fronds being contracted. 



Sori linear, continuous, and indusiate, situated on a somewhat 

 broad linear receptacle, and nearly covering the whole of the 

 under side of the contracted fertile fronds. Indusium opening 

 along the inward side. 



The veins of the sterile fronds simple or forked, the venules 

 direct and free. Veins of fertile fronds obsolete, or nearly so. 



Length of frond from twelve to thirty-six inches. 



There is a solitary British example, viz., Lomaria spicant, of 

 Desvaux. 



Mr. Smith, in his Catalogue of Ferns- cultivated in the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, enumerates eighteen species, namely: — 



Lomaria Patersoni, Sprengel. 



'' lanceolata, Sprengel. 



*' attenuata, Link. 



" L' Herminieri, Bory. 



'' nuda, Willdenoiu. 



" discolor, JVilldenoio. 



" falcata, Sprengel. 



" alpina, Sprengel. 



" spicant, Desvaux. 



Lomaria Banksii, Hooker. 



" australis, Link. 



" punctulata, Kunze. 



" Gilliesii, Hooker. 



" minor, SprengeL 



" procera, Sprengel. 



" capensis, Willdeiiow. 



" striata, TVilldenoic. 



" Boryana, Willdenoio. 



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



Lomaria alpina 

 " attenuata 

 " Boryana 

 *^ campylotis 

 " capensis 

 " falcata 

 " filiformis 

 '* Fraseri 

 " Gilliesii 



Lomaria hastata 

 " lanceolata 

 '^ U Herminieri 

 " Magellanica 

 '^ Meyeriana 

 " Moritziana 

 " nuda 

 " onocleoides 



Lomaria Patersoni 

 '^ procera 

 pumila 

 punctulata 

 pycnophylla 

 spicant 

 splendens 

 stcnophylla 



