AN ENUMERATION OP CULTIVATED FERNS. 



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§ 2. Eudiclesoniece. 

 Receptacles punctiform. Special and accessory indusia con- 

 niving, forming an urceolate or bivalved, reflexed cyst. 

 * Vernation uniserial, sarmentose, or rarely sub-fasciculate 

 and erect or decumbent, nahed or thinly furnished with scales. 

 123. SACCOLOMA, Kaulf. 



Vernation fasciculate, erect. Fronds 

 4-6 feet high, pinnate, 1-2 feet 

 broad, smooth ; pinnae linear-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, 8-12 inches long, 

 serrated at the apex. Veins simple, 

 rarely forked, direct, parallel, free. 

 Receptacles punctiform, terminal. Sori 

 punctiform, contiguous, laterally co- 

 alescing and forming a compound, 

 marginal, continuous soras. Special 

 indusium small, transverse, elongated, 

 sub-scyphiform ; accessory one uni- 

 versal, formed of the continuous, re- 

 flexed margin. 



1. S. elegans, Kaulf. En. Fil. t. 1, 



/. 12 ; Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 58, 



/. 1, 2; Kunze, Fil. t. 41. 



Davallia saccoloma, Sprcnn. 



■an- l t 3- Genus 123.— Portion of fertile 



— West Indies. pinna . No- , 



124. DEPAKIA, Hook, ct Ch-cv. 

 Vernation subfasciculate, decumbent. Fronds bipinnatifid, 



Genus 124.— Portion of barren £nd fertile frond. No. 1. 



