■'^^^ CLVI. FILICES. [Blechnum. 



9,™ ^'r *®,^^"^*„*"™ (minutely serrate), Rich. ■ Hook. Spec. FiKc. iii. 54 ; 

 ^yn. J^iiic. 186 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 739. " Bangwal]." Moreton Bay, T. L. 

 »r,T?u- 1 ' f ■"*^*'" Red Island, " Dugal," Tally Eiver, Roth. Rhizome short 

 ana tuick or longer and creeping. Fronds 1 to 2ft. long. Finns distinct, linear 

 or JaneeoJate, mostly 2 to 4in. long and nearly 3 lines broad or 4 lines when 

 Darren, obliquely truncate at the base but attached by the midrib only, serrralate, 

 ?mootn and shining, the veins oblique very numerous and tine, mostly forked, 

 pori Close to the midrib, the indusium soon concealed under them.— Bail. Litho'. 

 sf/if Q t >'• ^"•^■^««"'' R- Br. Prod. 152 ; Hook. Spec. Filic. iii. 55, t. 15f ^ 

 gieb. Syn. Fihc. n. 126, Fl. Mixt. n. 242 ; F. v. M. Fragm. v. 120. 



Bay,^C."s^ttar«^°''^' ^'"™'' '' RocJ^i^gham Bay, Dallachy; Rookbampton, Thozet; Moretda 

 KootB eaten after preparation.— Ba«cro/« and Both 

 Dispersed pver tropical America, the Malayan Archipelago and New Caledonia. 



4. B. orientale (eastern), Linn.; Hook. Spec. Filic. iii. 52, Syn. Filic. 186, 

 Filic. Exot. t. 77 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 739. Rhizome thick, rising to a short 

 erect trunk. Fronds 2 to 3ft. long. Pinnse distinct, Gin. to Ifk. long, ^ to lin. 

 broad near the base, tapering to a long point, mostly cuneate at the base and 

 attached by the midrib only, the numerous veins very fine as in B. serrulatwm, 

 but the margins quite entire. Sori close to the midrib and soon covering it, 

 A few of the uppermost pinnae occasionally adnate and decurrent on the rhachis., 

 F. V. M. Fragm. v. 120 ; Bedd. Ferns S. Ind. t. 22 ; Bail. Litho. Ferns Ql. 92. 



Hab.: Eockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Islands off the Coast, Leefe, Walter ; Daintree Eiveri 

 Fitzaian ; Gilbert River, Daintree, and most northern scrubs. 

 Also in East tropical Asia and in the South Pacific Islands. 



26i MONOGRAMME, Schkuhr. 



(From the Greek, alluding to the single line of sori.) 



Rhizome slender, creeping. Fronds simple, narrow, veinless except the midrib. 



Sori in a single continuous line in the upper part of the frond, in a groove 



opening along the midrib, the margins of the gcoove forming an indusium along 



one or both sides of the sorus. 



A small genus spread over the tropical and southern extratropical regioas of the New and the 

 Old World. The only Australian species extends over the area of the genus at least in the Old 

 Woild.— Benth. 



1. "BH. Junghuhnii (after — . Junghuhn), Hook. Spec. Filic. v. 128, Syn, 

 Filic. 375, var. tenella ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 740. Ehizome almost filiform, 

 intricately matted, covered with fine hairlike scales. Fronds slender and grass- 

 like, 1 to 2iin. high, entire, scarcely -J- line broad, flat with a prominent midrib 

 in the lower barren part, the upper fertile half rather broader. — Bedd. Ferns 

 S. Ind. t. 210; F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 110; Bail. Litho. Ferns, Ql. 93; 

 Diclidopteris angmtissima, Brackenr. Filic. U. S. Expl. Exped. 135, t. 17. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



27. DOODIA, R. Br. 

 -(After Samuel Doody, a London apothecary.) 



Rhizome tufted. Fronds simply pinnate or deeply pinnatifid. Sori oblong or 

 shortly linear, on transverse veinlets connecting the forked veins proceeding from 

 the midrib, in one or two rows parallel to the midrib on each side, with an 

 indusium of the same shape, proceeding from the veinlet and opening on the 

 inner side. Scabrous ferns, often small. 



The spscies are found in New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Ceylon. 

 Tronds rarely exceeding 1ft., very scabrous. Pinnules or segments all adnate 



by their broad base. Sori ovate, in 1 or 2 rows between the midrib and 



the margin ....... 1. D. aspera. 



Lower or nearly all the pinnules attached only by the midrib, or the lowest 



petiolate. Sori oblong 2. D. caudata. 



