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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
veins obsolete, or more or less evident, and by their contiguity 
forming a broad, transverse, continuous, sporangiferous recep- 
tacle, the sporangia becoming confluent over the whole disc of 
the segment. Indusium linear, sub-intramarginal, vaulted and 
revolute. 
* Fronds simple or pinnatifid. 
1. L Patersoni, Spreng. ; Kunze, Fil. t. 34 ; I TooTc. Fil. Exot 
i. 49 ; Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 50. Stegania Patersoni,. 
It. Br. — Australia. 
2. L. lanceolata, Spreng. ; HooJc. Ic. FI. t. 429 ; Lowe's Ferns, 
4, t. 61. Stegania lanceolata, B. Br. — Australia, 
Tasmania, blew Zealand, South America. 
