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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



smooth. Fronds of two forms, 2-3 feet long, the sterile pinnate, 

 the fertile contracted, pinnate or bipinnate ; pinna? articulated 

 with the rachis. Veins rising from an obscure, transverse vein 

 continuous -with, and close to, the costa; venules direct, their 

 apices clavate, united, forming a pellucid, cartilaginous, spinulose 

 margin ; fertile segments linear, rachiform, margin membrana- 

 ceous, revolute, indusiform. Sporangiferous receptacle linear, 

 continuous ; sporangia confluent. 



* Fertile fronds pinnate. 



1. 0. scandens, J. 8m.; Hooh. Gen. Fil. t. 105 B. Acro- 



stichum scandens, Linn. Onoclea scandens, Linn. 

 Serb. ; Sclih. Fil. 1. 106. Lomaria scandens, Willd. — 

 East Indies and Malayan Islands. 



** Fertile fi onda hipinnate. 



2. S. Meyeriana, /. Sm. ; Loiva's Ferns, 4, t. 47. 48. Lo- 



maria Meyeriana, Kunze. Lomariobotrys Meyeriana, 

 Fee. Stenochtana tenuifolia, T. Moore. ? Lomaria 

 tenuifolia, Lesv. Stenochlcona scandens, Hart. Acro- 

 stichum Meyeriannm, Hooh. Gard. Ferns, t. 16. — 

 South Africa. 



109. SALPICHLiENA, J. Sm. 

 Yerr.aiion subfasciculate, decumbent. Fronds bipinnate, 



leg —Portion of barren and fertile pinna, natural size. No. I* 



