AN ENUKEEATION OE CULTIVATED FERNS. 



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101. DOODIA, B. Br. 



Vernation fasciculate, erect. Fronds pinnatifid or subpinnate, 

 the fertile sometimes subcontracted; segments 

 serrate or spinulose. Veins forked, the lower 

 venules transversely anastomosing and sporan- 

 giferous. BecqiioMles medial, elongated, consti- 

 tuting one, or sometimes two, transverse rows of 

 oblong, straight, or arcuate sorL Induswmh 

 plane. 



1. D. aspera, B. Br. -, Soole. Exot. Fil. t. 8 



Hooh. Gen. Fil. t. 64 ; Lowe's Ferns, 4, 

 t. 30. — ^Australia. 



2. D. blechnoides, A. Cunm. ,• Metten. Fil. 



Sort. Leip. i. 6, /. 3. D. maxinja, 

 Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 32 ; /. 8m. im Loud. 

 Sort. Brit. — Australia. 



3. D. lunillata, B. Br. in Serb. Brit. Mus.; 



Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 31 B. — New 

 Zealand. 



4. D. caudata, B. Br. ; Sodk. Fxot. Fil. i. 25 ; 



Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 31 A. D. rupestris, 

 Kaulf. — Australia. 



6. D. linearis. Vernation fasciculate, erect, becoming CEespi- 

 tose. Fronds linear, 6-10 inches long; the sterile 

 sinuose-pinnatifid below, subentire above; the fertile 

 linear, anfractose, rachiform, erect. D. caudata, var. 

 confluens. Sort. — New Caledonia, ifi. Moore) 



6. D. dives, Ev/me, Fil. t. 105. — Ceylon. 



Genas 101. — 



Fertile pinna, 

 underside. No. 1. 



102. LOMAEIA, Willd. 



Vernation uniserial and sarmentose, or fasciculate, erect, 

 csespitose, or sometimes subarboreous. Fronds simple pinna- 

 tifid, or pinnate, rarely bipinnatifid, 1-3 feet high, the fertile 

 always contracted. Veins (of the sterile frond) forted ; venules 

 free, their apices usually clavate ; fertile segments rachiform. 



