

Pinna of mature Frond— under side 



GLEICHENIA HECISTOPHYLLA 



A. Cunningham. Hooker. Moore. 



PLATE L1I. VOL. VIII. 



Gleichenia semivestita, J. Smith. (Not of Labillaedieee, 



Hookee, or Mooee.) 

 " dicarpa, Of some Gaedens. (Not of Beown 



or Hookee.) 



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

 botanist . Hecistophylla — Ivy -leaved. 



This most graceful lovely Fern is of rapid growth, erect 

 in habit, and slender. 



A warm greenhouse species. 



Native of New Zealand. 



The fronds, which are dichotomous divaricated, (that is, 

 growing in duplicate, the one branch receding from the other, 

 and each again producing a similar growth of twin branches, 

 and each branch once divided,) have branches from ten to 

 fourteen inches long, and pectinate; the pinnse a little distant, 

 opposite or sub-opposite below, alternate above, about fifty 

 pairs, very narrow, and from one to two inches and a half 

 long, pinnatifld. Segments small, nearly circular in form, 

 alternate, approximate, about thirty to forty-five pairs, and 

 saccate; the outline of the pinna? resembling that of a string 



