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TRICHOMANES TRICHOIDEUM. 



SWARTZ. WiLLDENOW. HoOKER AND GrEYILLE. 



PLATE LXVII. B. 



Tricliomanes pyxidiferum, Schkuhe. 



" tenellum, Hedwig. 



Trichomanes — From tlie Greek, soft hair. Trichoideum — Sea-weed-liie. 



A MOST lovely, delicate-looking, slender, minute, thread-like 

 Fern; resembling the finest hair -like sea-weed. 



Native of Trinidad, Jamaica, Mexico, Vera Cruz, Xalapa, 

 and St. Domingo. 



Caudex elongated and creeping. 



Fronds broadly lanceolate, tripinnate ; segments linear-capillary, 

 bifid or forked, very fine, scarcely as broad as the filiform 

 rachis. 



Stipes very slender, from one to two inches in length. 

 Filiform. 



The fronds from three to six inches in length. Colour pale 

 green. 



Involucres terminal, on brief lateral segments, stipitate, 

 iirceolato-cylindrical, and large for the size of the frond. The 

 mouth spreading and entire. 



Requires a close, very humid atmosphere, with a temperature 

 ranging from 55° to 80°. 



The specimen illustrated was from the Island of Trinidad, 

 very narrow and minute in all its parts, and only one inch in 

 length. I am indebted for it to Mr. J. Smith, of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew. 



