114 



ACROSTICHUM FLAGELLIFERUM. 



and glabrous; the terminal pinnse at least twelve inches in 

 length, becoming narrower towards the apex, near which it is 

 proliferous. Fertile frond contracted and pinnate; pinnse 

 oblong-acuminate and petiolate, the terminal one narrow and 

 elongated. 



Lateral, and adherent to a creeping rhizoma. 



Sori amorphous. 



Yeins pinnate, the venules being arcuately anastomosing. 



Length of sterile frond from eighteen to thirty inches, of 

 fertile frond from twelve to eighteen inches; colour a dull 

 heavy green. 



For a plant of this Fern my thanks are due to Mr. Stewart, 

 late gardener at Sudbury Park; and for fronds to M. Schott, 

 of the Imperial Gardens, Schonbriinn; Mr. Gray, of St. Thomas', 

 Exeter; and to Mr. G. Norman, of Hull. 



It may be procured of Messrs. Sim, of Foot's Cray; E. G. 

 Henderson, of Wentworth; Booth, of Hamburg; and Cooling, 

 of Derby. 



The illustration is from a frond sent by Mr. Gray, of St. 

 Thomas', Exeter. The following engraving is diminished from 

 a fertile frond, sent by M. Schott. 



