IIEMIONITIS. 



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CONTINUATION OF POLYPODIEiE FEOM VOL. II. 



GENUS X. 



HEMIONITIS. LiNNiEus. 



The fronds of this small dwarf genus are simple, and are 

 either cordate, palmate, or pinnate. Veins reticulated and 

 wholly covered by sporangia, being, in fact, reticulated sori. 



Mr. Smith, in his "Catalogue of the Ferns of Kew," gives 

 the following: — 



Hemionitis palmata, LinncBus. 

 " cordata, Roxburgh. 



Hemionitis pedata, Swartz. 



Fee, in his ''Genres de la Famille des Polypodiacees," 

 gives — 



Hemionitis palmata, Willdenoio. Hemionitis sagittata. Fee. 

 " cordata, Roxburgh. \ 



Presl, in his "Tentamen Pteridographise," enumerates — 



Hemionitis cordata, Roxburgh. 

 palmata, Linnceus. 

 Cayennensis, Desvaux. 

 lanceolata, Linnceus. 

 falcata, Willdenoto. 

 Blumeana, Presl. 

 semicostata, Presl. 

 spatulata, Presl. 

 immersa, Bory. 

 o b t us a , Willdenoio . 



Hemionitis coriacea, Presl. 



plantaginea, Cavanilles. 

 concava, Presl. 

 Hookeriana, Presl. 

 Lessonii, Presl. 

 Bory an a, Willdeuow. 

 Reinwardtiana, Presl. 

 callsefolia, Presl. 

 reticulata, Forster. 

 parvula, Presl. 



We have no British representative. 



VOL. VII. 



