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M l DI F I . A / t U . M 1‘UBESCKNS.
Uachia and stipes slightly scaly at the base, and profoundly
furrowed.
Fronds terminal; rhizoma erect.
S on linear, produced on both sides of the venules. Indusium
of the same form as the sori.
I'cins pinnate.
Length from fifty to seventy inches; colour a dull green.
My thanks are due to Mr. R. Sim, of Foot’s Cray, for a
plant of this Fern; and to i\I. Schott, of the Imperial Gardens
of Schoiibrunn, and Mr. J. Henderson, of Wentworth, for fronds.
It is in the Catalogues of IMessrs. Rollisson, of Tooting;
A'eitch, Jun., of Chelsea; Sim, of Foot’s Cray; A. Henderson,
of Fine-applc Place; E. G. Henderson, of St. John’s Wood;
Booth, of Hamburgh; Stansfield, of Todmorden; and Kennedy,
of Covcnt Garden.
The illustration is from a frond forwarded by Mr. Joseph
Henderson, of IVentworth.
HKMIDt i ' I 'VrM, 1-M
UENUS III.
HEMIDICTYU.M. P r e s t ..
A GEN US represented by a solitary species, the Ilemidictyum
marginatum of Presl. A large handsome Eern.
Pinnate fronds, forked veins, parallel venules, except near
the margin of tlic pinn?D, where they anastomose, ancl are reticulated,
and are combined by a transverse continuous marginal
vein.
Sori unilateral and linear.
Indusium plane.
VOL, V.
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