FERNS OF NATAL. 
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deeply pinnatifid ; lobes oblong-ovate, subfalcate, obtuse, more or less serrated 
invol. fragile, opening at the top and forming a cup with a small irregula 
margin. Hab. :■ — Moist places ; from Umbilo Falls to Drakensberg. 
Gen. 5.— Hf.mitelia, Br. 
Sori at base of veins, with spurious involucre. 
4. II. Capensis, Br. ; caud. 12-14 ft. high ; st. unarmed, scaly at the base, an 
often bearing multifid anomalous pinna) (which have been mistaken for soin 
Triehomanes) ; fr. ample, submembratiaceous, bi-tripinnate ; prim, pinn; 
petiolate, ovato-oblong ; pinnl. subsessile, 2-3 in. 1., G-8 lines w., oblong acumj 
nate, deeply pinnatifid, or again pinnate ; lobes linear-oblong, acute, strongl 
serrated ; veins simple, one to each serrature ; sori frequently solitary at th 
base of the lobe or pinnl., rarely 3-4, with a lax, deciduous scale at the base 
cos tie and costules beneath, with scattered, deciduous, bullate scales ; reeep 
large, prominent. ( Ahophila Capensis. J. Sin.) Hah. : — Bavines near th 
sources of the Umlaas ; Town Hill ; on and near Noodsberg. A fine tree fern. 
Gen. 11. — Woodsia, Br. 
Small herbaceous ferns, much tufted ; the stipes often jointed and separating s 
the joint. Involucre, in the Natal species, larger than the sorus, nc 
ciliated. 
5. W. mollis, J. Sm. ; fr. lanceolate pinnate, generally densely clothed, espt 
cially beneath, with soft jointed hail's, scarcely attenuated below : pinnae sessili 
from a broader base, oblong obtuse pinnatifid ; lobes approximate oval c 
snbrotund, entire or crenate ; sori marginal ; invol. opening with jagged circuh 
mouth. Hab. : — Bushman’s Kiver, W. T. (1. ; under rocks, Drakensberg. 
6. W. Burgessiana, Herr. mss. ; fr. 6 in. 1., 2 in. w., lanceolate glandules* 
pubescent, membranaceous, flaccid, pinnated ; pinna) sessile, from a broad trui 
rated base, oblong pinnatifid ; lobes broad, subtruncated, toothed at the apex 
sori small, rather sparse, submarginal ; invol. thin, membranaceous, depresse* 
hemispherical, sublobate (apparently from the long capsules within) ope nil 
irregularly at the apex, persistent, at length breaking down into a very irreguh 
margin. Hab. Rocks, Tugela ; Lyndoeh Farm, Nottingham. 
Gen. 16. — HtmenophtIiLTTM, Sm. (Film Fern), 
Sori marginal, lateral or terminal at end of vein. Invol. monophyllous, rccep 
elongated, columnar, or filiform. Capsules sessile, covering more or less tl 
receptacle. Caudex creeping, filiform, slender. 
7. 11. rarmn , R. Br. ; st. very slender, 1-3 in. 1. ; fr. flaccid, pendent 2-6 i 
I. by 1-2 in. br. ; linear-oblong, bipinnatifid, the main racliis winged through 
out ; pinn* simple, linear, or forked, or pinnatifid, with two or three deeply-c* ' 
segments on each side, which are in. 1., 1 lin. br. ; sori large, terminal on tl 
segments of the upper pinna;, often 1 lin. br., divided half-way down or mor * 
