Young sterile frond— under side. 



TRICHOMANES MUSCOIDES. 



Swartz. Hooker and Greville. Willdenow. 



PLATE X. B. VOL. VITI. 



Trichomanes hymenodes, 



Hedwig. 



Trichomanes — "From the Greek — Soft hair. 



Muscoides — Moss-like. 



A curious elegant mossy or Jungermannia-looking plant, 

 rare in cultivation and very delicate. It has pellucid fronds, 

 somewhat oak-leaf-shaped, which rise singly from very slender, 

 dark, creeping stems. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of the West Indies, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Dominica. 

 St. Vincent, and Java. 



Fronds minute, erect, simple, oblongo-lanccolate, nearly sessile, 

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