Pinna of fertile Frond, 



BLECHNUM L^EVIGATUM. 



Cavanilles. Hooker. Swartz. Willdenow. Desvaux. 

 E. Brown. Moore. Sprengel. Kunze. 



PLATE LVITI. 



Lomaria scabra, 

 Orthogramma Icevigata, 

 Blechnum ambiguum, 

 Parahlechnum ambiguum, 

 Lomaria ambigua. 



Kaulfuss. Pebsl. Fee. 



Pebsl. 



Kauifitss. Peesl. 



Peesl. 



Fee. 



Blechnum — From Blecknon, the Greek name for a Fern. 

 LcBvigatum — Smooth. 



A MOST interesting species from Port Jackson, New South 

 Wales. 



Introduced into this country by Mr. E,. Sim, of Foot's Cray, 

 in 1859. 



The fronds are oblong-ovate, truncate at the base, and pinnate j 

 the sterile fronds spreading, and the fertile ones erect; the 

 pinnae spreading, sub-opposite below, alternate above; sessile 

 and dentate-serrate. There are from fifteen to twenty-one 

 pinnse, the terminal one large. The sterile pinnae elliptical, 

 and obtusely acuminate, rosy in colour while young; the fertile 

 pinnse erect, much contracted, being linear and more distant; 



