u f /r/timanej inXamiî^çin/rÂ
T R I C H O M A N E S I NT R A M A R G I N A LE.
F I L I C E S .— G y i i a t æ . B r . P o l y p o d i a c e æ . K a u l f . F i l i c e s v e ræ . IV ilU l., S p r e n g .
Gkn. C u a r . T R IC H O M aIN E S , Sm., Sw. Sori marginales. Capsuloe sessiles, receptáculo
communi cylindraceo insertæ, intra Involucrum monopliyllum, suburccolatum, ore hiante,
textura frondis. Br.
T r ic h o m a n e s inlramarginale; pumilmn, frondibus erectis sulibipinnatilidis, laciniis pauci.s lato-
linearibus crccto-patcutibus subundulatis opacis costatis nervo tenui paulo intra marginem
sito apicibus rctusis, involucris in apicibus laciniarum terminalium cylindrucco-campauulatis,
ore patente brevissime bilabiato.
H a b . Insula Zcylonæ. Communicavit Prof. Linilley.
Caude.v filiformis, repens, tomentoso-radiculosus.
S tip ite s perbreves, v ix semiunciam lon g i, subtomentosi, superne alati.
Froìis unciam loiiga, erecta, rigidiuscula, subbipinnatifida; la c in ia 'p a n c o s, lato-lineares, vel lineari-oblongoe, plerumque
retusoe, minute reticulatæ, obscure \ûrides, costatæ, nervo tenui paulo intra marginem sito.
In vo lu c ra oblongo-campanulata, ad apices laciniarum supremarum omnino immersa, ore paululum dilatato, brevissime
bilabiato, integerrimo.
R e c e p ta c ìd um ----------- .
Capsula: inclusæ, subglobosoe, compressæ, peltatæ, annulatæ.
Semin a subglobosa, flavo-viridia, subpcllucida, limbo pallidiora.
Fig . 1. Po rtio frondis cum involucris. f. 2. Involucrum verticaliter sectum, <
f. 3. Portio laciniæ. f. I . Capsulæ. f. 5. Sem ina :— magn. auct.
:apsulis e t basi receptaculi.
Of this little plant, which appears to ns very distinct from any hitherto described Trichomanes,
wc have only scon specimens in the state here represented, and in which the greater part of the
receptacle is broken away. It is of a singularly lurid aspect, and very opake.
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