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92. ANEMIA, Sw. 

 1. Anemia Mandiocana, Raddi. 



Anemia Mandiocana, Raddi, Plant. Brasil. 1, p. 70, t. 9, f. lj Gaud. Bot. Freyc. 

 Voy. p. 295. 



Hab. Vicinity of Rio Janeiro, Brazil ; frequent in dry and thinly 

 wooded places. 



Some of our specimens exhibit only a single fertile panicle on a 

 frond ; but the absence of the second one may have resulted from an 

 injury sustained when young. 



2. Anemia collina, Raddi. 



Anemia collina, Raddi, Plant. Brasil. 1, p. 71, t. 12 ; Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 295. 



Hab. On the Corcovado, near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



This species is closely related to A. liivta, Swartz : the sterile part 

 of the frond, however, is narrower and more elongated; the pinnae 

 approach more to a dimidiate form, and are cuncate at the base. 

 Stipe and rhachis covered with yellowish-brown woolly hairs. 



3. Anemia radicans, var. /?., Raddi. 



Anemia radicans, var. (3., Raddi, Plant. Brasil. 1, p. 70, t. 11. 



Hab. Vicinity of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 



Raddi considers this as only a variety of his A. radicans, the diffe- 

 rence consisting in the pinnae being more distant, fewer in number, 

 and more rounded at the point. Both possess a singular mode of 

 reproduction ; the rhachis of the sterile segment becoming lengthened 

 beyond the pinnae into a long and slender, naked, deflexed, tail-like 

 point, developing a bud at its extremity, which, by rooting in the 

 ground, soon gives rise to a new plant. 



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