COMPENDIUM. 



(Additions and modifications 



FI1.ICES (Filicineae). 



CLA^SS I. FL.^^.TVITH^LLOSAE. 

 {Series I. Anuuladac. 



FAMILY I. CYATHEACEAE. 

 Tribe I. Cyatheae. 



GENUS 2. HEMITELIA. Indusium consisting of 

 small or middle-sized, often convex, inferior 

 scale placed at the inner side of tlie receptacle, 

 at the base. 



GENUS 3. ALSOPHILA. Indusium wanting or 

 consisting of a minute inferior scale or a whorl 

 of hairs or fibres encircUng the base of the 

 receptacle. 

 Tribe II. Dicksonieae. 



GENUS i. DICKSONIA. Indusium cucullate, 2- 

 valved, the outer valve consisting of a small 

 lobule of the frond. Ultimate segments equal- 

 sided at the base. 



GENUS 4a. BALANTIUM. Like genus 4, but the 

 ultimate segments unequal-sided at the base, 

 produced on the upper side. — Ring of the 

 sporangia sometimes vertical and incomplete 

 (as in Polypodiaceae) and the indusium occasion- 

 ally more or less cup-shaped (as in genus 14). 

 FAMILY II. ^lATONIACEAE. 



■ GENUS 6a. MATONIA. Fronds flabellato-pedate. 



GENUS 6b. PHANEROSORUS. Fronds sympodially 

 branched. 



