spikes of fructification are in reality shortly pinnate in two rows, 
as in other Schizzas; the capsules, if not in two rows, are in 
two double rows, one on each side the costa, and I perceive 
no difference in the dehiscence of the capsules. From the 8. 
(§ Actinostachys) pennula, it is at once distinguished by its 
plane, or nearly so, fronds, and especially by the absence of the 
copious, long, chaffy, ferruginous hairs on the margins and 
among the capsules on the appendices. 
Puate 49. Fertile plant of Schizea (§ Actinostachys) digitata, Sw.,—natural 
size. Fig. 1. Portion of the frond. 2. Portion of a capsuliferous appendage. 
3. Section of the same. 4. Capsule. 5. Spores:—ald more or less magnified. 
