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DOODIA CAUDATA. 
Caudate Doodia. 
CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES — Nat. Ord. FILICES, Div. Gyratjb, Br. 
Gen. Char. — Sort lunulati vel lineares, seriati, costas paralleli. Involucrum 
e ramulo anastomosante venae ortum, planum, intus liberum. 
Frondes caespitosae, pinnatae, pinnis dentatis quandoque coadunatis. Sort 
interdum biseriati. — Br. 
Doodia caudata ; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis (plurimis) distinctis lineari- 
oblongis obtusis serrulatis, terminali elongata lineari. — Br. 
Doodia caudata, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 151. 
Woodwardia caudata, Cav. Demonstr. n. 653.— Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 11 6. — 
WiLLD. Sp. PI. V. V. p. 417. 
JVomfo numerous, tufted, 6 or 7 inches in length, erect, flexuose, linear-lanceo- 
late in their outline, terminating below in a slender dark coloured stipes, 
from two to four inches in length. Rackis similar to the stipes, but slightly 
pubescent. These fronds are composed of numerous, rather distantly 
placed pinnae, in the barren frond oblongo-ovate, somewhat oblique, in 
the fertUe ones linear-oblong, all of them spinuloso-serrate at the mar- 
gins. The terminal pinna is remarkably lengthened out, most so in the 
fertile fronds, in them 2 or 3 inches long, and equally serrated with the 
other pinnae. Their colour is a dirty green, and they are marked with 
a central rib, and lateral nerves, which are intersected by transverse 
ones. 
Upon these transverse nerves appear the Sari, or clusters offructijicatim, ob- 
long, parallel with the midrib. The involucre is plane, opening interiorly, 
and containing numerous capsules, which, as well as the seeds, are pre- 
cisely similar to those figured and described in Doodia aspera, t. 8. of this 
work. 
A native of Port Jackson and Van Diemen's Land, ac- 
cording to Mr Brown ; but I am not av^rare that it is yet known 
in a state of cultivation in this country. The representation 
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