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at the base: the direction which they assume, observable parti- 

 cularly in the inferior pinnules of each pinna, forms an acute 

 angle with the midrib of the pinna. The seed is confined to the 

 upper portion of the frond ; and, in its circular involucre at- 

 tached by a central cord, in its circular clusters of capsules, 

 occasionally confluent but generally separate, and in the dis- 

 tribution of the veins, I find no characters distinct from those 

 which I have already figured as characteristic of the preceding 

 species. 



