23 !■ feii:n's : bkitish and foeeion. 



122. LOXSOMA,\B. Pr. 



Vernation uniserial, sarmentose. Fronds long etipitate, 

 doltoid, decompound, 1-14 foot high, glaucous beneath ; lacinisa 

 lanceolate, dentate. Veins simple or forked ; venules free, their 

 apices prolonged, forming a free columnar receptacle. Sjoecial 



Genus 122- — Portions of barren and fertile frond, natural sizej 

 ditto, enlarged. No. 1. 



and Accessory Indusia united, forming a vertical, urceolate, 

 extrorse cyst. Sporangia obovate, pedicellate, seated round the 

 receptacle, which is elongated beyond the mouth of the indu- 

 sium. Ring of sporangium oblique. 



1. L. Cimniiighainii, iJ. Br. ; Sooh. etBoAier. Gen. Fil.t.l5; 

 Comp. to Bot. Mag. t. 31, 32; Boole. Oard. Ferns, 

 t. 31. — New Zealand. 



