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ATHYRIUM. 
ATHYRIUM ALLANTODIOIDES. (Bedd.) Caudex? stipes 5-7 inches and more long, slightly hairy furnished with 
large chaffy scales near the base, fronds up to 3 feet long and 8 to 9 inches broad glabrous, except on the rachis and costa beneath which 
are both more or less villous with weak scale-like hairs, oblongo-lanceolate pinne alternate sessile, linear lanceolate acuminate, in the 
middle of the frond about 5 inches long by ¿ of an inch broad, lowest ones remote and gradually dwarfed, superior ones gradually | 
decreasing in size, all pinnatifid nearly to the costa, segments oblongo-lanceolate to linear lanceolate obtuse or acute 4rd to š an inch long, 
_ very regularly serrated, serratures obtuse or acute, more or less falcate, veins pinnate simple not forked, one to each serrature not quite 
reaching the margin, the lowest pair terminating well above the sinus, sori terete bullate sometimes slightly lunate or athyrioid bursting 
regularly at the side one on each of the 4 or 5 lower veins, | x 
The specimens figured are from Dalhousie, (Col. Dyas). 
PLATE No. CCXXI. 
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