_DRYNARIA. | | 
DRYNARIA LINN ABI. (Bory.) Rhizome stout, the scales 1-2 lin: long broadly ovate, with a short acumen from a peltate — 
base ; fronds dimorphous, the barren ones sessile, brown, rigid, bluntly lobed ; the fertile ones long-stalked, 2-3 feet long, 6-12 inches 
broad, cut down nearly to the rachis into entire erecto-patent lanceolate lobes ; texture rigid, both sides naked ; main veins distinct to ` 
` the edge, with copious irregular areolæ between them, with copious small sori.—P. sparsisorum, Desv ;—Hook. Syn. Fil. p. 368. 
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Hab, Ceylon, Malacca, Tropical Australia, Solomon Isles, Differs from D. quercifolia by its scattered sori. 
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