THE BRITISH FERNS. 
THE SMALL-LEAVED GYMNOGRAM. 
'GYMNOGRAMMA LEPTOPHYLLA. 








G fronds oblong ovate, bi-tri-pinnate, glabrous, fragile; pinnae 
ovate ; pinnules or pinnulets ovate-cuneate, usually three-lobed, the 
lobes blunt and bidentate. [Plate XIV.] 
GYMNOGRAMMA LEPTOPHYLLA, Desvaux, Berlin Mag. v. 80b; Id., Journ. de 
Bot. i. 26 ; Id., Ann. de Soc. Linn. de Paris, vi. 215. Moore, Handb. Brit. 
Ferns, 3 ed. 74; Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. and Ireland, Nature Printed, 
t. 43 B. Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 19. Hooker & Arnott, Brit. Fl. 
7 ed. 580. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 427. Sowerby, Ferns of Gt. 
Brit. 83, V. 48. Bentham, Handb. Brit. Fl. 627. - Lowe, Nat. Hist. Ferns, 
i t. 7. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 40. Presl, Tent. Pier. 219. Hooker fil. 
Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 45. Hooker & Greville, Icon. Fil. t. 25. Nyman, Syll. Fl. 
Europ. 433. 
GYMNOGRAMMA PALLISERENSE, Colenso, Hb. Hooker. 
GYMNOGRAMMA Nova-ZELANDIA, Colenso, Tasm. Phil. Jour. ii. 165. 
POLYPODIUM LEPTOPHYLLUM, Linneus, Sp. Plant. 1553 ; Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew. 
t. 26. 
ACROSTICHUM LEPTOPHYLLUM, De Candolle, Fl. Franç. ii. 565. 
GRAMMITIS LEPTOPHYLLA, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 93, t. 218, 1, fig. 6. Willdenow, 
Sp. Plant. v. 148. 
ANOGRAMMA LEPTOPHYLLA, Link, Fil. Sp. 187. Fée, Gen. Fil. 184, t. 19 A, 
fits dl 
ASPLENIUM LEPTOPHYLLUM, Cavanilles, Anal. de Cienc. Nat. v. 155, t. 41, 
fig. 8.—mala, fide Swartz ; Desvaux, Ann. de Soc. Linn. de Paris, vi. 277. 
HEMIONITIS, LEPTOPHYLLA, Lagasca, Gen. et Sp. 33. 
OSMUNDA LEPTOPHYLLA, Savigny, Lam. Enc. Bot. iv. 657. 
DICRANODIUM, Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 13. 


Caudex small, subglobose, with a few fine scattered hair-scales in 
the younger stages. Fibres few, brown, pilose. 
Vernation circinate. 
= Stipes as long as, or sometimes longer than, the fronds, smooth 
and shining, dark chestnut-brown, paler upwards, rather stout in 
the most perfect fronds ; terminal, and adherent to the caudex. 
Fronds about six or eight in number, variable in size and form, 

delicately membranaceous, fragile, pale yellowish green, very slightly 
hairy when young, quite smooth afterwards. The first frond deve- 
loped from the prothallus or marchantiform scale, is small, about 
half an inch long, flabelliform, three-lobed, each of the segments 








