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ADDENDA. 



Swartz.) — A fine, distinct, tufted Fern, with erect, smooth, shining, dark 

 green, pinnate fronds, with hairy stalks. Length from eight to twelve 

 inches. 



TEICHOMANES LUSCHNATIANUM, Presl.—A. handsome climbing 

 Fern, allied to Trichomanes radicans, but is sessile, the fronds lanceolate, 

 and having a very long and slender creeping caudex, (as much as fifteen 

 feet.) Native of Brazil. Length of frond eighteen inches. 



TKICHOMAFES MEMBRANACEU:^, LinntBits, Swartz, Willdenow, 

 Hooker. (Filix hemionitis, Pluhenet.) — A very distinct, interesting, creeping 

 Fern, having most delicate, elegant, entire, roundish, nearly stemless, deep 

 green, glossy fronds, torn on the margin, and with fan-hke veins. Native 

 of the West Indian Islands, growing on trunks of trees. Length of frond 

 from two to three inches. 



TEICHOMANES PUNCTATUM, Poiret, Kaulfuss, Mooker and 

 Greville. (Trichomanes sphenoidcs, Kunze.) — Very small fronds. Smaller 

 than Muscoides, with roundish obovate, bluntly incised fronds, with fan- 

 like veins. Native of Martinique, Guadaloupe, Trinidad, Gorgona, Peru, 

 and Guiana. 



TBICHOMANES EEPTANS, Swartz, Willdenmo, Hedioig, Soaker and 

 Greville. (Trichomanes hymenodes, Hedwig. Phyllitis soandens, Sloane.) 

 — A very minute Fern, creeping on palms, etc., with roundish incised 

 fronds, with fan-shaped veins. Native of Jamaica, St. Vincent, and Cuba. 

 Length of frond about an inch. 



TEICHOMANES EHOMBOIDETJM, Cuming.— A. remarkable species, 

 with narrow pinnate fronds. Allied to Trichomanes Javanicum. Native of 

 Philippine Islands. Length of frond nine to twelve inches. 



TEICHOMANES EUPESTEE, Backhouse.— A. new species, forming 

 tufts of broadly-ovate, dense, rather undulate, pinnate fronds, on round 

 hairy stalks. Native of Borneo, growing on bare wet rocks. 



TEICHOMANES SETIGEEUM, Backhouse.— A. new, undescribed 

 beautiful species, allied to Trichomanes pluma, but larger. Fronds tufted 

 and curving. The ultimate divisions of the pinnce hair-hke, giving a 

 brush-like appearance to the fronds. Native of Borneo, where it grows in 

 crevices of rocks. 



TEICHOMANES SUPEEBUM, Backhouse.— Kn undescribed noble 

 species, with dense, triangular, tripinnatifid fronds, on erect, broadly- 

 winged, and very hairy stalks. Native of Borneo. Fronds from two to 

 three feet in length. 



TEICHOMANES THUJOIDES, Desvaux, Bbo^fcer.— A handsome tufted 

 Fern, with ovate, attenuated, tripinnatifid fronds, on erect stalks. Native 

 of the Mauritius. Length of frond from nine to eighteen inches. 



