610 FILICES. 



Habitus et antherse Adianti, a quo differt margin e fron- 

 dis non introflexo, et (capsules in furcas tarn venas 

 ultimas insidentibus. Elegans, pallide viridis, repens. In 

 umbrossissimis humidis subtus rupes Otpore. Itinerary 

 Notes p. 352. No. 123. 



Adianium. PL CXXXI1I. f. II. 



1. Young plant, the ramenta, appear about the 3rd. or 

 4th. leaf or frondule, mostly surrounding the base of the 

 new shoot, their appearances and stages are represented 

 above the young plants. 



2. Young plant, 3 fronds detached, base of the 4th with a 

 few ramenta, many of these are seen about the new 

 shoot ; 2, 2, 2, etc. represent their various stages, 2a. is 

 one in which the functional changes appear to have 

 occurred, a rare instance. 



3. 3. Young ramenta ; from the apex of axis, of new growth, 

 which has a peculiar structure ; c, old ramenta ; a, apex 

 of new growth, bidentate, b, vein. 



4. 4. Functional ramenta from circinate frond, near the 

 lower divisions \ it is curious that the more simply con- 

 stituted the ramenta are, the more functional do they 

 appear to be. 



5. New frond, young stage not emerged entirely from the ra- 

 menta of the axis ; the direction of the anthers ? shewn 

 to correspond with the other instances, that is, they are 

 in evident communication with the lobes of the frond, 

 they are slightly yellow, in terminal cell, or colorless, 

 but turgid with fluid, they are represented separately 

 -most are curved as in other instances. 



STENOCHLAMYS Nov. Gen. ? 



Stenochlamys Edgeworthii Gr. PI. CXXXVIII. Fig. I. 



Fronde pedalis vel spithamsea, rachi glabra, lamina supra 

 decomposita, potius bipinnata, apice 1-pinnata, pinnulis 



