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FILIC ES .—G n tA T jE . B r . P o i y p o d i a c e j e . K a u lf. F i e i c e . s v e ræ . ÌVilld., S p ren g .
G e n . C ii,u i. L O M A R IA , Willd. Sori lineares continui pinnas lincares frondis diverste occupantes.
Indusia marginalia yd snijniatginalia, connivcntia, luvolventia. K a u f.
L o m a r ía OUliesii-, pinnata, frondis sterilis pinnis oblongis acutis brevissime petiolatis oblique
lincatis margine cartllagineo-scmitis basi cordatis, fertilis linearibus apice ultra soros serru-
latis.
I I a b . Prope Mendoza. J . Gillies, M .D .
Caudex repens, squamosus, squamis paleaceis, magnis, nitidis, ferrugineis.
s t i f i l e . digitales, erecti, subangulnti, pallide flayo-fosci, glabri, nudi, aut ad basin solummodo squamosi.
Fro n d e s c lrcinnscrlptbne late oyalm, pinnatmt p in n is approximatis, alternis, 15— 16, brevissime petiolatis, hoti-
zontaliter patentibus, oblongis, acutis vel acutiusculis, subcoriaceis, pallide viridibus, dense iiervoso-lineatis,
basi cordatis nuuc subobliquis, margine argute cnr tila g ineo -ser ra tis;/c rtiSS ia ma g i, remotis, dimidio long
ioribu s, linealis, m.argiiiibus revolutis, apicem versies solummodo serratis planis.
S o r i lineares, continui, versus marginem siti.
I n v o lu m m lineare, arcuatum, conlimnim, marginibus laceratum.
Capsules in ñervos laterales insertæ, globosæ, .annulatæ, sublonge stipitatæ.
S emin a ovalia, reniformia, limbata, limbo crenato.
Fig . 1, Portio pinnæ fertilis. f. 2 . Pars ejusdem. f. 3. Capsulæ. f. 4 . Semina ««c/.
This IS certainly allied to the Lomaria [Stegania Br.) procera, from New Holland ; hut that ha.s
very narrow fertile pinnæ and a chaffy stipes : and, according to the description, also to L.ornifolia
Presl, which, however, has the pinnæ only serrated at the extremity.