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CATALOGUE OE PEEKS. 
forming a costal row of oblong, continuous sori. Indusium linear, 
plane. 
1. A. Virgmica, Presl. Blechnum Virginicum, Linn . Wood- 
wardia Yirginica, Sw . — North America. 
63. L.ORIMSORSA, Presl; Fee. 
(Woodwardise sp., Auct.) 
Vernation uniserial, sarmentum hypogseous. Fronds distant, 
sinuose-pinnatifid or subpinnate, 1-1^ foot high, the fertile con- 
tracted. Veins of the sterile frond uniform reticulated; fertile 
segments rachiform, costal anastomoses transverse, elongated, 
sporangiferous, forming a costal row of linear, contiguous sori. 
Indusium vaulted, involute. 
1. Is. areolata, Presl. Acrostichum areolatum, Linn. Wood- 
wardia angustifolia, Sm. Wood war dia onocleoides, Willd. 
W. Floridana, ScJik. Fil. t. I'll. — North America. 
64. STENOCHL^NA, J. Sm. 
(Acrostichi sp., Auct. Lomariobotrys, Fee.) 
Vernation uniserial, distant ; sarmentum elongated, scandent, 
smooth. Fronds of two forms, 2-3 feet long, the sterile pinnate, 
the fertile contracted, pinnate or bipinnate; pinnae articulated 
with the rachis. Veins rising from an obscure, transverse vein 
continuous with and close to the costa; venules direct, their 
apices clavate, united, forming a pellucid, cartilaginous, spinulose 
margin ; fertile segments linear, rachiform, margin membrana- 
ceous, revolute, indusiform. Sporangiferous receptacle linear, 
continuous ; sporangia confluent. 
1. Is. Meyeriana, J. Sm. Lomaria Meyeriana, Kunze. Loma- 
riobotrys Meyeriana, Fee. Stenochlsena tenuifolia, T. 
Moore. ? Lomaria tenuifolia, Lesv. Stenochlsena scan- 
dens, Hort . — South Africa. 
