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Polyp odium megalodes, Schk., for which it is often mistaken, and with 

 which it has nearest affinity, but is well distinguished by its much 

 larger size, copious puberulae, and presence of involucres. 



52.iV. bibrachiatum, Jenm. — Stipites tufted, 2 or 3 in. L slender, 

 channelled, puberulous, grey-brown, a few small dark scales at the base; 

 fronds bipinnatifid or bipinnate, 5-6 in. L or over, 1^-2^ w., charta- 

 ceous, cloudy green, the rachis and ribs clothed with grey puberulae 

 basal pinnae largest, and petiolated to J in. 1-3 pairs much broader 

 than those above and deeply pinnatifid, or fully pinnate at the base 

 where they are reduced, the segments oblong linear, obtuse, those next 

 above these about 1 in. L J in. w., free, sessile, somewhat lobed in the 

 inner half, the basal lobes largest, the outer sub-entire and the points 

 acute or blunt, uppermost of all entire, adnate and connected, passing into 

 the lobate-entire apex of the frond ; veins forked or simple in the seg- 

 ments of the lower enlarged pinnae, the basal ones connected in the 

 other and sending a branch to the sinus, the outer ones branched and 

 free ; sori small dorsal, the inferior medial, the rest nearer the mid-vein 

 of the lobe ; involucres small, distinct. — Grard. Chron. Feb. 24th 1894, 

 p. 230. 



A small plant that reminds one both of Poly podium hastcefoliu?n 

 and Nephrodium tenebricum. The merely lobed pinnae quite resemble 

 those of the latter, but the lowest two or three pairs are enlarged 1£ 

 in. 1, |-J in. b. and cut to the costae uniformly into narrow seg- 

 ments. The sori are plentiful, but minute. The t enation varies with 

 the character of the cutting. 



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