



Portion of mature branch. 



GLEICHENIA MICROPHYLLA. 



Brown. Hooker. J. Smith. 



PLATE XLVII. VOL. VIII. 



Gleichenia Speluncce, 



circinata? 

 circinalis, 



Guillemin. (Not of 

 Beown, Hookee, 

 Mooee, nor Smith.) 



SWAETZ. 



SWAETZ. MOOEE. 



Gleichenia — Named in honour of Baron P. F. Von Gleichen, a German 

 botanist. MicropJiylla — Small-leaved. 



An exceedingly elegant Fern, of large size, with a very 

 dense symmetrical habit. 



A warm greenhouse species. 



Native of Tasmania and Port Jackson, in New Holland. 



Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1845, having 

 been received from Mr. R. Gunn. 



Fronds dichotomous divaricated; the branches pinnate; the 

 pinnee pinnatifid and glabrous; segments sub-rotund, nearly 

 plane, and having the margins somewhat recurved, exposing 

 the sori more to view than in Gleichenia semivestita. 



The rachis and branches covered with chaffy ferruginous 

 hairs. 



Veins indistinct. 



