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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
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 j 
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. 
* Fertile fronds pinnate. 
1. S. scandens, J. Sm. ; JIoolc. Gen. Fil. t. 105 B. Acro- 
stichum scandens, Linn. Onoclea scandens, Linn . 
Herb . ; Sclik. Fil. 1. 106. Lomaria scandens, Willd . — 
East Indies and Malayan Islands. 
** Fertile fi onds bipinnate. 
2. S. Meyeriana, J. Sm. ; Loive’s Ferns, 4, t. 47. 48. Lo- 
maria Meyeriana, Kunze. Lomariobotrys Meyeriana, 
Fee. Stenochlaena tenuifolia, T. Moore. ? Lomaria 
tenuifolia, Lesv. Stenocblmna scandens, Hoi-t. Aero- 
stichum Meyerianum, Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 16. — 
South Africa. 
109. SALPICHLiENA, J. Sm. 
Genus 109.— Portion of barren and fertile pinna, natural size. No. 1 . 
