Portion of pinna of barren Frond. 



DICKSONIA SQUARROSA. 



swartz. schkdhr. j. smith. hooker. 

 Moore and Houlston. 



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Trichomanes squarrosum, 

 Balantium squarrosum^ 



Forster. 

 Kunze. Fee. 



Dicksonia — After James Dickson, a British, botanist. 

 Squarrosa — Rough and scurfy. 



Another fine tree Fern, and very beautiful, bearing graceful 

 fronds. 



An evergreen warm greenhouse species. 



Native of New Zealand. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1842, by Mr. 

 J. Edgerly. 



Fronds coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate in form, and tripinnate; 

 ultimate pinnae oblong and profoundly pinnatifid; segments 

 somewhat ovate, pungent, and mucronately-serrated. Beneath 

 the segments there are small lacerated scales. 



Veins pinnate; venules simple, direct, and free. 



Sori globose, small, one on each lobe; both valves of the 

 involucre concave, and nearly equal. 



Fertile segments much smaller, and contracted. 

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