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TRICHOMANES EXSECTUM. 

 KuNZE. Hooker. 



PLATE LXIV. — A. 

 Trichomanes — From the Greek, soft hair. E.csectum — Cut out. 



A MOST lovely creeping Fern, hanging pendent from the 

 roofs of damp caverns. 



Native of Juau Fernandez and Southern Chili. 



The fronds are extremely delicate and membranaceous, and 

 resemble thin, flat, much branched, green sea-weed; flaccid, 

 oblong -pinnate, the pinnse being bipinuatifid; segments narrow, 

 linear, smooth, and simple or bifid obtuse. Stalks slender and 

 vriry. 



Involucres oblong, buried in the frond; mouth spreading, 

 almost two-lipped. 



Rachis and stipes winged above, naked below. 



Caudex creeping. 



Length of frond from four to fourteen inches, width some- 

 times six inches; vivid green in colour. 



Cultivation. A very humid rather close atmosphere, with a 

 temperature ranging from 40° to 65°. 



To Messrs. Backhouse and Son, Nurserymen, York, I am 

 indebted for the frond illustrated. 



