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DOODIA cavpara. 
Caudate Doodia. 
CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES.—Nar. Ono. FILICES, Div. Gyrata, Br. 
Gen. Cuar.—Sori lunulati vel lineares, seriati, costa: paralleli. Involucrum 
e ramulo anastomosante venz ortum, planum, intus liberum. 
Frondes cespitose, pinnate, pinnis dentatis quandoque coadunatis. Sori 
interdum biseriati—Br. 
Doodia caudata ; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis (plurimis) distinctis lineari- 
oblongis obtusis serrulatis, terminali elongata lineari.—Br. 
Doodia caudata, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 151. 
Woodwardia caudata, Cav. Demonstr. n. 653.—Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 116.— 
Wi.xp. Sp. Pi. v. v. p. 417. 
Fronds numerous, tufted, 6 or 7 inches in length, erect flexuose, linear-lanceo- 
late in their outline, terminating below in a slender dark coloured stipes, 
from two to four inches in length. Rachis similar to the stipes, but slightly 
pubescent. These fronds are composed of numerous, rather distantly 
placed pinne, in the barren frond oblongo-ovate, somewhat oblique, in 
the fertile ones linear-oblong, all of them spinuloso-serrate at the mar- 
gins. The terminal pinna is remarkably lengthened out, most so in the 
fertile fronds, in them 2 or 3 inches long, and equally serrated with the 
other pinne. Their colour is a dirty green, and they are marked with 
cae rib, and lateral nerves, which are intersected by transverse 
Upon these transverse nerves appear the Sori, or clusters of frecifction, ob- 
long, parallel with the midrib. The involucre is plane, opening interiorly, 
and containing numerous capsules, which, as well as the fet canta ke 
cisely similar to those figured and and described in Doodia aspera, t. 8. of this 
. Work. 
A native of Port Jackson and Van Diemen’s Land, ac- 
cording to Mr Brown; but I am not aware that it is yet known 
in a state of cultivation in this country. The representation 
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