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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
2. S. elegans, Stu. Lophidium elegans, Presl. Scliizsea 
elegans ; a latifolia. Hook. Gard. Ferns, t. 34. — 
Tropical America. 
Genus 146. — Portion of barren and fertile frond, natural size; 
fertile spikelet enlarged. No. 2. 
3. S. rupestris, II. Br. ; Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 48 ; Hook. 
Gard. Ferns, t. 42. — Australia. 
147. ACTINOSTACHYS, Wall. 
Vernation uniserial, contiguous ; sarmentum short. Frond s- 
linear, simple, stipitiform, compressed, triquetrous at the base, 
9 -18 inches high. Costa prc minent, continuous. Fertile appen- 
dices terminal, digitato-flabellate, cristseform ; segments indu- 
