256 FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



1. F. spicata, Presl. Trichomaies spioatum, JleJiti. ; HooJc. 



Gard. Ferns, t. 60 ; Lowe'.s New Ferns, t. 67 G. T. 

 elegans, Budge {iapari) ; SooTc. Exoi. Fil. t. 52. Feea 

 polypodina, Bory, in Diet. Sc. Nat. cum la. — ^Weat 

 Indies. 



2. F. uaim, Bory. Trichomanes nanum, Bory ; Hoolc. 8p. 



JPil. l,p. 115. — Gaiaua. 



140. HYMENOSTACHYS, Bory. 



Vernation fasciculate, erect. Fronds of two forma, 6-10 

 inches high ; the sterile pinnatifid ; the fertile contracted, 

 linear, longer than the sterile. Veins in the sterile forked; 

 venules anastomosing, forming obhque elongated areoles ; in 



Genus 140.— ^Portion of barren frond, natural size; dttfo fertile 

 enlarged. No. 1. 



the fertile, simple or forked, free. /SoW termiijal, immersed 

 contiguous in a row along both margins of tlje fertile frond. 

 IndAisvwm nrceolate-calyciform. Receptacle filiform, continued 

 beyond, the sporangia and mouth of the induSium. 



