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POLYPODIACEiE. 
POLYPODIES 
GYMNO GB AMME. 
Gen. Char. “ Sori linear, elongated, on forked free veins, 
destitute of involucre .” — Sir IF. Hooker. 
1. Gynmogramme leptopkylla. Small Gymnogram. 
Sori without cover. Fronds of two kinds, barren and fertile. 
The Small Gymnogram is an inhabitant of Jersey, it 
grows there on sunny banks, and is not unfrequent, but, 
being an annual, it can only be found during the sum- 
mer and autumn. Its name is 
composed of two Greek words 
which signify naked and writ- 
ing , and refers to the absence 
of cover, and to the branching 
form of the seed-masses resem- 
bling Hebrew letters. The 
barren fronds have from one 
to three fan-shaped pinnules, 
each lobed and indented. The 
fertile fronds have a pale 
shining brown stipes, and the 
pinnules, though of the same 
shape as those of the barren frond, are less expanded. 
The veins are doubly forked, so as to send a branch into 
