TRICHOMANES TRICHOIDEÜM.
S w a r t z . W i l l d e n o w . H o o k e r a n d G e e v i l l e .
TRICHOMANES SPICATUM.
K . H e d w i g . H o o k e r .
P L A T E L X V I I . B . P L A T E L X V I I . — C .
Trichomanes S c h k u h r .
H e d w i g .
T r ic h o m a n e s -E r em th e Greek, soft haft. 2 > f ti« - * « - 8 e a -w e e d - lik e .
A MOST lovely, delicate-looking', slender, minute, thread-like
F e rn ; resembling the finest bair-like sea-weed.
Native of T rinidad, Jamaica, Mexico, Vera Cruz, Xalapa,
and St. Domingo.
Caudex elongated and creeping'.
^ Fronds broadly lanceolate, tripinnate; segments linear-capillary,
bifid or forked, very fine, scarcely as broad as tbe filiform’
racbis.
Stipes very slender, from one to two inches in length
Filiform.
The fronds from three to six inches in length. Colour pale
green.
Involucres terminal, on brief lateral segments, stipitate
urceolato-cylindrical, and large for tbe size of the frond. The
mouth spreading and entire.
Requires a close, very humid atmosphere, witb a temperature
ranging from 55° to 80°.
The specimen illustrated was from the Island of Trinidad,
very narrow and minute iu all its parts, and only one inch in
length. I am indebted for it to Mr. J . Smith, of the Royal
Gardens, Kew.
Trichomanes elegans.
Feea
l l u D G E , ( i n p a r t . ) H o o k e r .
D e s v a u x .
B o e t .
B o e y .
■—From tlie Greek, soft Kair. Spicatum—Spiked.
A L O V E L Y Fern, resembling Trichomanes elegans, b u t smaller
in all its parts.
Native of Guiana, St. Vincent, Trinidad, Guadaloupe, and
Jamaica.
The sterile and fertile fronds dissimilar, the sterile ones shorter
than the fertile ones, pinnatifid, and broadly lanceolate in form;
segments almost horizontal, oblong in shape, the margin sinuato-
crenate; veins pinnate and free. F ertile frond linear, and a
spike; having distichous, free to the rachis, urceolate, stipitate
involucres. Fronds from three to six inches in length.
Climate required, airy and very humid, temperature from 55°
to 75°.
My thanks are due to Mr. Smith, Curator of the Royal
Gardens, Kew, for fronds.