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seems more natural to keep all the species together, and to use
the characters of venation and of the combination or separation
fertile and sterile fronds only for making sections. Mr. John
Smith’s proposition (in the Botany of the Voyage of BI. M. S.
“ Herald”), to establish the genus Anemirhiza for the present
fern, because “ the fronds are distant, and produced in a single
series from an elongating creeping axis, which assumes the form
of a rhizome,” he seems to have abandoned in his later writings.
Plate XIV., Fig. 2. — An entire plant of Aneimia adiantifolia of the
natural size. The details are a portion of the fructification enlarged, and a
highly-magnified sporangium.
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