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ANEMIA uxovmizis. 
Dwarf Anemia. 
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CRYPTOGAMIA SCHISMATOPTERIDES, Willd—Nat. Ono. FILICES, 
Div. Osmunpaceaz, Brown. 
Gen. Cuar.—Capsule subturbinate sessiles, vertice radiatim striate, altero 
latere hiantes, in spicis disposite. Znvolucrum nullum.—Willd. 
Anemia humilis; fronde atieite, pinnis obovato-cuneatis apice trunca- 
tis crenatis subtus villosis, stipite hirto. 
A. humilis, Swartz, Syn. Fil. p.156,.—Wiup. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p- 90.—Scuxkonr. 
t. 141. (from CavaNILLEs). ; 
Anemia repens, Rapp1, Syn. Fil. Brazil. p. 4. 
of fructification, standing upon rather long, glabrous peduncles. Capsules 
crowded,but hat d ; each is obovato-spherical, 
s ; reticulated, sur- 
mounted at the top with a concentrically striated swelling, and opening 
outwardly by a vertical fissure. Seeds numerous, spherical, beset with 
I am indebted for my specimens of this pretty little fern to 
Professor Rapor of Florence, who gathered it in clefts of old 
walls, and especially near the aqueduct which conveys the wa- 
ter from the mountains of Corcovado to the city of Rio Janeiro 
in the Brazils. ‘That gentleman has described it under the 
name of A. repens, quoting doubtfully the A. tenella of Ca- 
VANILLES; but I think there cannot be a question of its iden- 
tity with the Osmunda humilis of CAVANILLES, whose figure 
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