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DRYNARIA. 
DRYNARIA MOLLIS. (Bedd.) Caudex creeping, clothed with subulate golden transparent ciliated scales, fronds firm- 
membranaceous dimorphous ; sterile ones 4-6 inches long, sessile ovate glabrous, deeply pinnatifid with the sinuses very narrow and the 
segments sometimes overlapping each other, fertile fronds very shortly stipitate (the dwarfed lower segments often extending nearly to the 
base of the rachis), ovato-lanceolate up to 14 feet long 2 to 4 inches broad furnished with soft hairs on both sides and ciliated, deeply 
almost to the rachis pinnatifid, segments lanceolate 1 to 2 inches long 1rd to 5 an inch broad, nearly horizontal rather distant, the sinus 
being very broad, the lower ones dwarfed and gradualiy reduced to a decurrent wing, venation very prominent in the sterile fronds, but 
much less so in the fertile ones than in D. propinquum, veins forming 3 or 4 series of rather regular areoles in which are sometimes 
included free veinlets, sori forming only a single series close to the costa, each sorus being on the vein between the 155 and 2nd areole. 
Nearly allied to D. propingua, but differs in the softer texture of the fronds and in being hairy and in having almost sessile 
fertile fronds, the sterile fronds often become perfect skeletons of veins, the parenchyma. falling away—fig. A. is a magnified portion of 
the sterile frond showing the venation. | | 
The specimen figured is from Nynee Tal—(Col. Dyas). 
PLATE No. CCXVI. 
