length near the midrib; the segments are acute. Fronds terminal,
being attached to a creeping rhizoma, which is stout and
covered with scales. The sterile fronds are bipinnate, with
roundish oval pinnules, which arc wedge-shaped at the base,
and serrate on the margin.
This IS a variable species, sometimes all the fronds will be
fertile, at others all sterile, and at others intermediate, one
portion of a frond being fertile and linear-filiform, whilst another
portion will be sterile and trapezoidal in shape.
Length of frond eighteen inches.
Stipes brown, with a pale green belt along each lateral side.
Copious brown scales at the fasciculate rhizoma.
S on single on each pinnule, very long, occupying three
fourths of the length of the pinnule; situated on the inner edge.
For plants of this species I am indebted to Messrs. Eollisson,
of Tooting; and to Veitch, Jun., of Chelsea; and for fronds
to Mr. Norman, of Hull; Mr. Sim, of Foot’s Cray; and to
Air. Henderson, of AVentworth.
It is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. A. Henderson, of
Pme-apple Place; F . G. Henderson, of St. John’s AA’ood; Rol-
hsson, of Tooting; Parker, of Holloway; AYitch, of Fxeter;
Alasters, of Canterbury; and Booth, of Hamburg.
I he illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
Portion of l)arrcn Frond.