Pinna of fertile Frond— under~side. 



DAVALLIA CANADENSIS. 



Swartz. Hooker. Loddiges. Smith. Willdenow 



Link. J. Smith. Kunze. H. Lowe. Finlay. 



Saltzmann. Masson. Lemann. Fee. 



Schott. Paxton. Presl. Kaulfuss. Sprengel. 



PLATE XII. VOL VIII. 



Trichomanes Canariensis, 

 Polypodium Lusitanicum, 



Linnjsus. Jacqutn. 



Linnaeus. 



Davallia — In honour of Edmund D avail, a Swiss Botanist. 

 Canariensis — Canary Island. 



An old favourite, known as the Hare's Foot Fern, and cer- 

 tainly a beautiful species. It has been cultivated in our green- 

 houses one hundred and sixty years. 



An evergreen greenhouse Fern. 



Native of South Europe, Madeira, Canary Islands, Portugal, 

 and Tangiers. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, as long ago as 1699. 



Fronds glabrous, triangular in form, three-branched, supra- 

 decompound, primary pinnae very broad, pinnules lanceolate, 



