CLASSIFICATION 
SUB-ORDER I—GLEICHENIACE/ 
SORI DORSAL, without indusium, composed of a 
few sporangia having a transverse or obliquely 
transverse complete ring and opening vertically. 
Genus I.—GtercHenia R. Br. 
(Named after W. F. Von Gleichen.) 
Caudex creeping; stipes forked; segments 
small, almost round or pectinate. 
Gleichenia linearis Bedd. 
Stipes zig-zag, repeatedly forked, ultimate 
branches with a pair of forked pinnz which are 
cut down almost to the midrib into elongated, 
entire, blunt segments, bluish-green beneath. 
A distinct pair of pinnz arises from the base 
of the forked branches. [Fig. 6.] 
Distribution : Bombay Presidency—North 
Kanara—Tyagli, Yellapur, Barch, Idagoonji, 
Nuji, Sumkund, Nilkund, Sirsi, Jog, Hoolgeri, 
Harshikuta, Herigoota, Katgal, Honawar, 
