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Distribution: Bombay Presidency: North 
Kanara, in the bed of the river at Jog and other 
places, Sumkund, Anmod, Castle Rock, on the 
banks of a tank; Mahableshwar. 
South India, on the western mountains at 
the higher elevations, North India, Kumaon, 
Bhotan, Khasya, 4,000-6,000 feet.—Asia ; 
North and South Africa; Central and North 
America ; Europe. 
SUB-ORDER IV.—SCHIZEACE 
Sporangia two-valved, crowned by a com- 
plete apical ring. Vernation circinate. 
Genus XLIX.—Anemia Sw. 
(Deriv. Gr. Anetmon, naked—the naked 
spikes.) 
Sporangia small, very abundant, forming a 
copiously branched panicle quite distinct from 
the leafy part ot the trond; fronds pinnate or 
bi-tripinnatifid ; veins free. 
Anemia rotundifolia Schrad. 
Stipes 6-g inches long, hairy ; the fertile and 
barren portions united in the same frond; the 
barren portion pinnate, 8-12 inches long, 1-2 
inches broad below, often prolonged and root- 
ing at the tip; pinne 1 inch long, 3-3? inch 
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