Portion of mature Frond. 



TRICHOMANES VEN08UM. 

 Brown. Hooker and Greville. 



PLATE IX. — B. VOL. VIII. 

 Trichomanes — From the Greek — Soft hair. Venosum — Veiny. 



A pigmy Jungermannia-looking very fihny Fern, found 

 always on the trunks of trees, and very distinct. 



An evergreen greenhouse species. 



Native of New Holland, Tasmania, and New Zealand, where it 

 has been found by Dr. J. D. Hooker, Gunn, Brown, Cunning- 

 ham, Menzies, and Bynoe. 



Fronds pinnate, small, thin, very delicate and glistening; 

 pinnse linear, remote, sinuate, occasionally sub-bipinnatifid, 

 upper pinnse coadunate. Costa and veins wavy. 



Involucre sunk, and urceolate-cylindrical; mouth spreading 

 and entire. Stipes very slender and filiform. 



Caudex very slender, creeping, elongate, and filiform. 



Length of frond from two to five inches. Colour grassy 

 green. Width half an inch. 



For fronds my thanks are due to Mr. R. Sim, of Foot's Cray. 



It may be procured of Mr. B-. Sim. 



The illustration is from Mr. Sim's frond. 



