314 TlMEHRI. 
This state is usually a large robust plant, of shuttle- 
cock shape, from three to eight feet high, and it grows in 
gregarious clumps, generally on the banks of estuaries 
and lagoons washed by brackish water. The fronds are 
simply pinnate, with entire lanceolate-oblong pinnae, 
which stand more or less at an acute angle and oblique 
plane with the rachis. The upper ones only of these 
pinnae in each frond are fertile, and the sori occupy their 
whole under surface, except the mid rib. The corpuscu- 
lar covering, the nature of which I have described, is, in 
this case, composed of minute rather turbidly lucent 
bodies, that vary in shape — purse-like, triangular, or 
star-formed with surface projections — and aggregately, 
though not separately, of a dark coffee colour. 
The second is a still more robust plant, in which the 
stems of the leaves are two or three times thicker, 
softer, and freely ribbed, the pinnae close, and between 
two and three times as numerous, spreading, the face 
nearly at right angles with the line of the rachis ; the barren 
and fertile fronds being quite distinct. The former spread 
en the outside ; the latter are nearly twice as long, and 
central, standing quite ere6l. They are fertile in all their 
pinnae. In this species the corpuscular covering ispruinose, 
instead of coffee coloured, and the corpuscles larger and 
very different in form, being uniformly sausage shaped. 
The following is a technical description of both : — 
* Barren and fertile fronds distincl. 
Chrysodium lomarioides, Jenman, n. sp. — Rootstock erect, massive j 
clothed with membranous, obtuse, brown-black scales, which are 2 lines 
wide and % inch long with a pale scariose margin. Stipites stout, 
fleshy, subangular and ribbed longitudinally, § to an inch or more 
thick, i^-2| feet long, slightly impressed down the face, naked but with 
a few basal scales like those of the caudex. Fronds 3-4 feet long, 1-2 
feet wide, a little reduced at the base, rather suddenly so at the apex. 
