TRICHOMANES. 



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6in. to 12in. long, produced from a wide -creeping, slender rhizome, are 

 extremely delicate and membranous, and resemble thin, flat, much-branched, 

 green sea-weed. Their segments are narrow, smooth, either simple or forked, 

 and blunt. The plant thrives equally well on hard wood or stone. — Hooker, 

 Synopsis Filicum, p. 85. Lowe, New and Rare Ferns, t. 64a. 



T. Filicula — Fil-ie'-ul-a (little Fern). Synonymous with T. bipunctatum. 



T. fimbriatum — fim-bri-a'-tum (fringed). A synonym of T. superbiim. 



T. floribundum — flo-rib-un'-dum (bundle-flowered). Synonymous with 

 T. pinnatum. 



T. foeniculaceum — foe-nic-ul-a'-ce-um (Fennel-like), Bory. 



This species, of medium dimensions, is a native of Mauritius, Bourbon, 

 Borneo, and Rockingham Bay, Australia. Its fronds, borne on slightly-tufted, 

 erect, wiry stalks 2in. to 4in. long, are 4in. to Sin. long, 2in. to 3in. 

 broad, erect, rigid, and broadly egg-shaped ; their lower leaflets, about l^in. 

 long, are cut down nearly or quite to the stalk, and are divided into 

 deeply-cleft leafits, which in their turn are cut into thread-like segments. — 

 Hooker, Species Filicum, i., p. 135. 



T. gemmatum — gem-ma'-tum (bud-bearing), J. Smith. 



A species having a strong, wiry rhizome covered with numerous long, 

 black, wiry fibres, from which are produced its upright, broadly egg-shaped 

 fronds, 2in. to 6in. long, lin. to 2in. broad, and borne on wiry stalks 

 lin. to 3in. long and winged above. The leaflets are cut down to a 

 narrowly-winged rachis into leafits with deeply-forked, thread-like segments. 

 This species is a native of South America and Malaysia. — Hooker, Species 

 Filicum, i., p. 135. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, iv., p. 80. 



T. giganteum — gig-an-te'-um (gigantic), Bory. 



This species, native of Mauritius, Bourbon, Malaysia, the Fiji Islands, &c, 

 is very handsome and one of the most distinct of the genus. Its fronds, 

 which are produced from a wide- creeping rhizome of a woolly nature, and 

 borne on strong, upright stalks 4in. to 6in. long, are egg-shaped and 

 distinctly quadripinnatifid (four times cleft almost to the rachis) ; they 



