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FEENS : BEITISH AND FOREIGN. 



79. NEPHEOLEPIS, ScImU. 



Vemaiion fasciculate, erect, stoloniferous. Fronds pinnate, 

 linear, 1-6 feet long; pinnse nnmerous, 

 oblong or linear-lanceolate and falcate, 

 entire, dentate or deeply crenate, upper side 

 of the base auriculated, sessile, articulated 

 to the rachis. Veins forked ; venules free, 

 clavate, the lower exterior one fertile. 8ori 

 terminal, round, sub-marginal, transverse 

 uniserial. Indusiwm reniform or nearly 

 orbicular (as in figure), sometimes equal 

 and conniving -with the soriferoos crennle, 

 forming a marginal bilabiate cyst. 



1. N. pectinata, Sehott ,- Lowe's Ferm, 7, 

 t. 18. Aspidium pectinatum, 

 WiUd. Aspidium trapezoides, 

 Schh. Fil. t. 29 B. Aqjidinm 

 Schkuhrii, Link. — Tropical 

 America. 



2. N. Tindulata, /. 8m. ; Lowe's Ferns, 7, 

 i. 20. Aspidium undulatum, £i^. — 

 West Africa. 



3. N. tuberosa, Presl; Lowe's Fe^-ns, 7, 



t. 25, Aspidium tuberosum, Bory. 



Genus 79.— Finna of Nephrodium edule, J), Don. — 



fertile frond, onaer •Li„fi. t„jj„„ 



side. No. s, Siast Indies. 



4. N. exaltata, Schott, Gen. Fil. t, 3; JETooh Gen. Fil. i. 36; 

 Lowe's Ferns, 7, 1. 19. Polypodium exaltatm, L inn. ; 

 {Plv/m. Fil. t. 63). Asi^idium esaltatum, nw. ; Schh. 

 Fit «. 32 B; BaM. Fil. Bras. t. 46. Nephrodium 

 exaltatum, B. Br, — Tropical America. 



6, N. easifoUa, Presl; Lowe's Ferns, 7, t. 22. Aspidium 

 ensifolium, Sw. ; Schle. Fil.t.d2. Aspidium acutum, 

 8w. ; 8chk. Fil, t. 31. Nephrolepis platyotis, Kunze ; 

 iMten. Fil. Hort. Lips. t. 26, /. 1. — Tropical America 

 and Java. 



6, M". hii'Sutula, Presl; Lowe's Ferns, 7, <. 21. Aspidium 

 hirsutulnm, Si*. ; 8chTc,FiLt.S9. Lepidoneuron hir- 

 sutulum, Fee. Aspidium pilosum, Lang, et Fisch. 

 Fil. t. 16.— igast Indies, 



