TRICHOMANES CRISPUM. 



Linnaeus. Plumier. Hooker and Greville. J. Smith, 

 Willdenow. PIedwig. Kunze. Sprengel. Moore, 



PLATE X. 



■A. VOL. VIII, 



Trichomanes fastigiatu m, 

 cristatum, 

 pilosum, 

 " longifolium, 



pellucens, 



plumosurn, 



Siebee. 



Kaulfuss. Speengel, 

 Eaddi. Maetius. 

 Desvaux. Plumiee. 

 Kunze. Liebmann. 

 hookee. p(eppig. 

 Kunze. Hookee. 



Trichomanes — From the Greek — Soft hair. 



Crispum — Curled. 



A very handsome wiry species, rare in cultivation. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of South and Tropical America, the West Indies, 

 Brazil, Peru, Surinam, Mexico, and Jamaica. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1851. 



Fronds sub-pinnate, hairy, segments linear-oblong, rounded 

 at the apex, and decurrent at the base, forming a winged rachis. 

 Fronds terminal and very membranous. 



Rhizoma short and creeping. 



Sori situated on the apex of the segments, vertically oblong;, 



