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GENUS V. 



SCOLOPENDEIUM. Smith. 



A SMALL family, of which two species alone are in cultivation, 

 the aS'. vulgare and the S. Krehsii — the former is our native 

 example. 



Fronds simple, veins forked, venules free, the superior and 

 inferior branch of each fascicle contiguous and parallel, being 

 sporangiferous on their proximate sides, and constituting two 

 linear confluent sori, each having a linear indusium, the free 

 margins of which connive. 



Fee gives the following: — S. qfficiiiarum, S. hemionites , S. 

 minus, S. longifolium, S, Diirvillei, S. Krehsii, and S. pinnatum. 



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