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Fronds simple bearing (when fertile) a pectinate or digitate crest of crowded terminal resupinate pinnne ; or flabellate, or dicho- 
tomously multi-partite, bearing the fertile crests on the apex of the segments —Rhizome csespitosely creeping— (Moore). 
1. Schi-cea dichotoma. (Sm.) Fronds flabellate, dichotomously multi-partite, bearing the fertile crests on the apex of the seg- 
ments, segments linear, about a line broad and several inches long costate, more or less minutely tuberculate— crests pectinato-pinnate 
incurved and connivent, spore-cases biserial arranged in a series on each side of the costa— Lophidium dichotomum, Richard. 
Palghat Hills. 
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{h) Fructificatio7\s paniculate on distinct fronds or lateral branches. 
* Veins free. 
Anemia, Sivartz, Syno2-)s, Fil. 155. 
(Ornithopteris, Bernhardi ; — Coptophyllum, Gardner; — Spathepteris, Presl ; Anemirhiza, J. Smith; — Osmundfe Sp. 
Auctorum Mohrise Sp. ; J. Smith.) 
Fructifications paniculate on the lower (pair of) branches of a three-branched frond, or on distinct fertile fronds ; the fertile 
branches or fronds erect, contracted, rachiform, decompound, the segments unilaterally sporangiferous. Spore-cases oval or sub-globose 
having a many-rayed apical ring, sessile, bi-serial on the ultimate segments. Vei7is flabellately dichotomous, sometimes dimidiately so ; 
or forked, often repeatedly, from an evident or indistinct costa ; or simple in the narrow ultimate segments ; venules free. 
Fronds pinnate or bi-tri-pinnate ; dimorphous, the fertile and sterile distinct ; or monomorphous, the fertile ones then 
always ternately branched, the two lateral branches distinct, erect, stipitate, fertile, the terminal one spreading sterile — Pinnae sometimes 
dimidiate. Rhizome short, erect, or slowly or casspitosely creeping — A genus recognized by the distinct branches of its fronds which, 
respectively resemble the foliage and inflorescence of a phaenogamous plant — (Moore). 
]. Anemia Wightiana (Gard.) Stipes rachises and fronds densely tomentose Avith long yellowish brown or golden hairy scales, 
fronds monomorphous, ternately divided, the two lateral branches fertile, the terminal one spreading sterile, bi-pinnate, with the pinnules 
variously lobed, or pinnatifid. 
Sisparah ghat — dry places 3,000 to 4,500 feet elevation — Anamallays — dry rocky places — on the hills over Colengode at 4,000 
feet elevation. 
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Order OPHIOGLOSSACE^. 
(a) Fructifications on a h'anched p)anicle. 
BoTRYCHiUM, sivartz. Schrad. Journ. 1800, II. 8, 110. 
(Osmunda BernMrdi ; — Botrypus, Michaux). 
Fructifications paniculate, formed of numerous secimd spikelets, on a distinct branch of the frond. Spore-ca^es erect, sessile 
free bi-serial, globose, fleshy-coriaceous, bursting vertically in two equal hemispherical valves. Vei?is flabellato-dichotomous or 
dichotomo-furcate, from a central costa ; venules free. 
Fronds herbaceous or sub-carnose, pinnatifid or ternately decompound ; the sterile and fertile branches distinct — Rhizome 
short, erect, fleshy. (Moore). 
1. Botrychium virginicum var laniicjinoswn (Moore.) Fronds sub-carnose, bi-pinnate with the pinnules, very variously lobed 
and decompound, the fertile branch from the centre of the frond, main and partial rachises more or less hairy. Botrychium, lanuginosum. 
Wall. Cat. 48. 
On most mountainous tracts on the western side of the Presidency. 
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