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TRICHOMANES SPICATUM. 

 R. Hedwig. Hooker. 



PLATE LXVII. — C. 



Trichomanes elegans, Eudge, (in part.) Hookeb. 



" spicisorum, Desvaux. 



" osmundioides, BoET. 



Feea polypodina, Bory. 



Trichomanes — From the Greek, soft hair. Spicatum — Spiked. 



A LOVELY Fern, resembling Trichomanes elegans, but smaller 

 in all its parts. 



Native of Guiana, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Guadaloupe, and 

 Jamaica. 



The sterile and fertile fronds dissimilar, the sterile ones shorter 

 than the fertile ones, pinnatifid, and broadly lanceolate in form; 

 segments almost horizontal, oblong in shape, the margin sinuato- 

 crenate; veins pinnate and free. Fertile frond linear, and a 

 spike; having distichous, free to the rachis, urceolate, stipitate 

 involucres. Fronds from three to six inches in length. 



Climate required, airy and very humid, temperature from 55° 

 to 75°. 



My thanks are due to Mr. Smith, Curator of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, for fronds. 



