AN ENUMERATION OP CULTIVATED FEKNS. 



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pinnae entire, dentate or pinnatifid. 

 Veins forked or pinnate ; venules 

 free, their apices clavate, the lower 

 exterior one sporangiferous. Recep- 

 tacles punctiform. Bon terminal, 

 round. Indusium reniform or 

 absent. 



a. Indusium absent. 



1. A. tenella, /. 8m. in Hook. Fil. 

 Fl. Nov. Zeal. t. 82. Poly- 

 podium tenellum, Forst. 

 Schh. Fil. t. 16. Poly- 

 podium filipes, Moore, in 

 Gard. Ghron. (1855), 

 p. 368; Lowe's Ferns, 2, 

 t. 38. Arthropteris filipes, 

 /. Sm. Gat. Cult. Ferns 

 (1857).- New Zealand. 



Genus 78. — Pinna of No. 1, and 

 d tto No. 3, natural size. 



6. Indusium small, soon obliterated. 



2. A. obliterata, J. Sm. Nephrodium obliteratum, B. Br. 

 Nephrolepis obliterata, Hook. Sp. Fil. 4, p. 154. 

 Linds33aLowei,.Hbrf. — Australia, Malayan and Poly- 

 nesian Islands. 



c. Indusium evident, pinnce pinnatifid. 



3. A. albo-prmctata, J. 8m. Aspidium albo-punctatum, 

 Willd. Nephrodium albo-punctatum, Besv. ; Hook. 

 Fil. Exot. t. 89. Aspidium leucosticton, liun-.e. 

 Aspidium (Lastrea) Boutonianum, Hook. Ie. PI. 

 t. 93. — Mauritius, W. Tropical Africa. 



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