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Pinna of matuve Frond, under side.
DIPLAZIUM DECUSSATUM.
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D ip la zium Lasiopteris,
Asp len ium decussatum,
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AVa l l ic h , {not o f S w a e t z .)
D ip la z ium— To double. Cross-fronded.
A D U L L , woolly-looMng, coarse species, which propagates so
freely from spores, that every Eern-pot abounds with seedling
plants.
Introduced luto the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1840, having
been received from the Royal Botanic Gardens of Berlin.
An evergreen stove Fern.
Native of the East Indies.
Fronds pubescent, somewhat ovate-lanceolate in form, and
pinnate; the pinnæ petiolulate, lanceolate in shape, subcordate
at the base, and profoundly pinnatifid, with oblong-obtuse
rounded segments, which are crenate, the basal ones remote.
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