Plate 45. 
OSMUNDA REGALIS. 
Osmund Royal, or Floioeriny Fern. 
Gen. Char. Capsules subglobose, subcoriaceous, pedicellate or sessile, 
reticulated, opening vertically halfway down into two valves, and having 
on one side towards the apex a very small, incomplete, gibbous ring. 
Involucre none.— Handsome large Terns, with pinnate or bipinnate fronds; 
the fertile fronds or portions that become fertile, much altered, and con¬ 
tracted, and loaded with capsules. Veins forked, free. 
Osmunda regalis; fronds bipinnate, pinnules oblong, nearly entire, sometimes 
auricled, or more or less auricled or lobed at the base, the inferior ones 
opposite; fertile panicle bipinnate (in British specimens), occupying the 
extremity of the frond. 
Osmund a regalis. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1521. Sw. Syn. Fit. p. 160. Schk. Ml. 
p. 147. 1. 105. Willd. Sp.Pl. v. §. p. 97. Engl. Bot. v. 3. t. 209. Hook, 
in FI. Lond. t. 150. Hook, and Am. Brit. FI. ed. 8. p. 595. Bolt. Ml. 
Brit. p. 6. t. 5. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 4. p. 327. Moore , Brit. Ferns , Nat. 
Pr. t. 50. 
Osmunda spectabilis. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 98. P-ursh , FI. Am. p. 658. 
Osmunda palustris. Schrad. in Goet. Gel. Anz. 1824, p. 866. 
Osmunda Capensis. Pr. Pterid. Suppl. p. 63. 
Osmunda speciosa. Wall. Cat. n. 50. 
Osmunda Hilsenbergii. Hook, and Grev. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 230. Kze. Schk. 
Fil. Suppl. 
Osmunda gracilis. Link, Hort. Berol. p. 81. t. 39. 
Osmunda Hugeliana. Pr. Pterid. Suppl. 
Osmunda obtusifolia. Willd. in Kaidf. Fn. Fil. p. 43. 
Osmunda glaucescens. Link, Fil. Hort. Berol. v. 2. p. 146. 
Osmunda Leschenaultii. Wall. Cat. n. 51. 
Water-Fern, or Osmund the Waterman. Gerarde, Ilerball , ed. Johns, p. 1131. 
Hah. Bogs, marshy grounds, at the margins of woods, etc., in various parts of 
England, Scotland, and Ireland. 
We are now come, in the subjects of this and the following 
Plates, to a set of Plants so different in appearance and structure 
from true Perns, that they are called by some Pseudo-Filices (or 
