Portion of pinna of barren Frond. 



DICKSONIA CULCITA. 



L'Heritier. Hooker. Moore, 



PLATE XXXTX. VOL. VITT. 



Balantium culcita, 

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Culcita macrocarpa, 



Kauleuss. Hookee. J. Smith. 

 Moore and Houlston. 

 Presl. Hooker. Fee. 



Dicksonia — Named after James Dickson, a British botanist. 



Culcita — A cushion. 



A very handsome, rare, large-growing Fern, having singular 

 fructification; the form of the indusium somewhat resembling 

 a purse; hence its name of Balantium by Kaulfuss, from Ba- 

 lantion — a purse. A robust, large-growing species, worthy of 

 general cultivation. 



An evergreen warm greenhouse Fern. 



Native of Madeira and the mountains of the Azores, at an 

 elevation of from two to three thousand feet, where it has been 

 noticed by Masson, Guthnic, and Watson. 



Fronds glabrous, sub-coriaceous, decompound, and tri-quad- 

 ripinnate; ultimate segments oblong and dentate. 



