and inferioi- one truncate. H ab it Avceiiing. Fertile fronds bi-
pinnate, the ¡jinnæ being linear and entirely sporangiferous;
stipes covered with scales. H ab it erect. The fronds terminal,
and adherent to a creeping rhizoma, which is scaly.
L ength of frond from twenty-four to thirty-six inches; colour
b rig h t green.
Sori amorphous, densely covering the fertile fronds.
A'oins forked, internal, and combined by a transverse continuous
marginal vein.
To Air. Sim my thanks are due for a plant of this species,
and to Air. G. Norman, of H u ll, for fronds.
I t is in the Catalogues of Alessrs. Rollisson, of T ooting; Sim,
o f Foot’s Cray; Veitch, of Chelsea; Jackson, of Kingston; A.
Henderson, of St. Jo h n ’s AWod; and Stansfield, of Todmorden.
The illustrations arc from Air. Norman’s fronds.
GENUS XII.
H Y A IEN O D IUM . F e e .
A m o n g s t the cultivated Ferns in Great Britain a solitary
extraordinary looking stove F e rn constitutes this genus, the
Hymenodium crinitum of Fee.
Fronds simple, entire, and squamiferous. Veins reticulated,
the areoles being large. Fertile fronds broad and densely sporangiferous.
Fee, in his “ Genres de la Famille des Polypodiacées,” enumerates—
Hymenodium crinitum. Fee.
“ Kunzeanum, Fee.
Hymenodium crassifolium. Fee.
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