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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



134. TRICHOPTEE.IS, Presl. 



Vernation fasciculate, erect, arborescent. Fronds bipirmate, 

 4-6 feet long, smooth, stipes articulated with the axis ; pinnae 

 distant ; pinnules lanceolate, coriaceous, articulated with the 

 rachis. Veins pinnately forked; venules free, their apices 

 clavate. Sori medial, criniferous, oblong, laterally contiguous 



Genus 134.— Fertile pinna, natural size ; poition of ditto enlarged. No. 1. 



and confluent, forming a transverse row. Receptacles scarcely 

 elevated. Indusium absent. 



1. T. excelsa, Presl. Alsophila excelsa, Mart. Ic. Crypt 

 Bras. i. 37 —Brazil. 



135. LOPHOSOBIA, Presl. 



Vernation fasciculate, erect, arborescent, densely criniferous. 

 Fronds tripinnatifid, 3-5 feet long, glaucous beneath. Veins 



