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Pinna of fertile Frond.
BLECHNUM LÆVIGATUM.
C a v a n il l e s . H o o k e r . S w a r t z . W il l d e n o w . D e sv a u x .
IL B r ow n . M o o r e . S p r e n g e l . K u n z e .
FL.-VTE LV IT I.
Lomaria scabra,
Orthogramma loevigata,
Blechnum ambiguum,
Barahlechnum amhiguum,
Lomaria ambìgua,
.K a u l f u s s . P i i e s l . F e e .
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K a u l f u s s . P e e s l .
P e r s l .
F e e .
Blechnum—From Bleclmon, the Greek name for a Fern.
Lævigatum—Smooth.
A MOST interesting species from Po rt Jackson, New South
Wales.
Introduced into this country by Mr. K. Sim, of Foot’s Cray,
in 1859.
The fronds are oblong-ovate, truncate at the base, and pinnate ;
the sterile fronds spreading, and the fertile ones erect; the
]iinnæ spreading, sub-opposite below, alternate above; sessile
and dentate-serrate. There are from fifteen to twenty-one
pinnæ, the terminal one large. The sterile pinnæ elliptical,
and obtusely acuminate, rosy in colour while young; the fertile
piimæ croct, much contracted, being linear and more distant;