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FILICES. 



4. Anemia repens, Eaddi. 



Anemia repens, Kaddi, Plant. Brasil. 1, p. 71, t. 9, f . a, 2 ; Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. 

 p. 295. 



Hab. On the Corcovado, Rio Janeiro, Brazil : on exposed and gra- 

 velly banks. 



Plant about 8 inches high. Rootstock thick and creeping, rufous- 

 tomentose. Stipe seraiterete, sulcate in front, and hairy. Sterile 

 fronds and segments pinnate. Pinnae oblong, obtuse, cuneate at the 

 base, incisely dentate, villose on both sides. Panicle (with its 

 peduncle) twice the length of the sterile segment. 



5. Anemia flexuosa, Sw. ? 



Anemia flexuosa, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 156? Willd. Spec. PI. 5, p. 93? Kaddi, Plant. 

 Brasil. 1, p. 71, t. 13; Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 295. 



Hab. Botofogo, vicinity of Rio Janeiro, and Organ Mountains, 

 Brazil. 



Sterile fronds and sterile segments of the fertile ones pinnate, of a 

 triangular-oblong form, and pubescent on both sides. Pinnaa elon- 

 gated-oblong, obtuse, incisely-pinnatifid ; the inferior ones nearly 

 opposite ; the superior alternate. Segments oblong, obtuse, dentate. 

 Fertile panicles (with their peduncles) scarcely longer than the sterile 

 segment. — This is evidently the A. flexuosa of Raddi ; but we are not 

 so certain that it is the original A. flexuosa of Swartz and Willdenow, 

 their description being so brief. 



93. ANEMIDICTYON, J". 8m. 



(Anemije Spec. Sw. & Auct.) 



The reticulated venation of Anemidictyon is the only character 

 which distinguishes it from Anemia. 



