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8cS CYRToVTKR1S BULBIFERA.
Fronds terminal, being adherent to a tufted rhizoma.
Sori circular, minute, and medial.
Veins forked.
L ength of frond from twelve to twenty Inches; colour jjale
green, frequently brownish.
Stipes and rachis reddish.
F o r plants my thanks are due to Sir Oswald Mosley, Ba rt.,
of Rolleston H a ll, and to Air. J . Pearson, of Chilwcll.
I t may be procured of any Nurseryman.
I 'h e illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
CONTINUATION OF POLA'PODIF.yE FROM A’OL. I I .
GENUS X.
H E A IIO N IT IS . L in n te u s .
T he fronds of this small dwarf genus are simple, and arc
either cordate, palmate, or pinnate. AVins reticulated and
wholly covered hy sporangia, being, in fact, reticulated soil.
Mr. Smith, ill his “ Catalogue of the F erns of Kew,” gives
the following;—
Hemionitis pedata, Swartz.
Hemionitis palmata, Linnceus.
“ cordata, Jioxhurgh.
Fe e , ill his “ Genres de la Famille des Polypodiacées,”
Hemionitis palmata, Willdenow. | Hemionitis sagittata. Fee.
“ cordata, Boxhurgli.
Pre sl, in his “ Tentameli PtcridograiihiíE,” enumerates—
Hemionitis cordata, JRoxhiirgh.
palmata, Linnceus.
cayennensis, Desvaux.
lanceolata, Linnmus.
falcata, Willdenow.
hlumcana, I'resl.
semicostata, Presl.
spatolata, Presl.
immersa, B ory.
obtusa, Willdenow.
Hemionitis coriacea. Presi.
jilantaginea, Cavamlles.
concava, Presi.
hookeriana, Presl.
lessonii, Presl.
boryana, ìVilldenoto.
reinwardtiana, Presl.
callicfolia. Presi.
rcticulata, Forster.
parvula, Presl.
W c bave no British representative.
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