} [
f
i
Eli
I. I
y
r
i;
i ' ; -
.1 í
m
'l'AB. cxxxin.
H Y M E N O P H Y L L U M S E C U N D UM.
FILICES.— G y r a t æ . B r . P o l y p o d i a c e æ . K a u lf . F i l i c e s v e ra u ìVilld.
G e n . C h a r . H Y M E N O P H Y L L U M , Sm. S o r i marginales. Capsula sessile s, receptáculo
communi cylindraceo insertæ, intra Involucrum bivalve, textura frondis, valvis planis, cxte rius
liberis. B r .
H y m e n o p h y l l u m secv,ndum; fronde bipinnatifida, pinnis subflabelliformibus, laciniis linearibus
dichotomis scrratis secundis, involucris ovalibus subcompressis integerrimis.
H a b . In N o v a Ze ckndia. A . Menzies.
Caudex gracilis, filiformis, repens, ìiic illic tomentosas, atque radiculosus, ramosus.
S tip e s subuncialis, tei'es, nudus, fuscus.
Frons, circumscriptione, ovato-lanceolata, bipinnatifida, segmentis primariis, seu pinnis, semiovatis, curvatis, subflabelliformibus
; laciniis omnibus secundis, furcatis, linearibus, serratis, obtusis, minute reticulatis. Ra ch is
alata, margine integerrimo. Color, siccitate, intense fuscus.
S o ri, in pinnis superioribus præcipue, ad extreraitatem laciniarum brevium integerrimarum siti.
Involucrum ovale subcompi'essum, usque ad medium bilabiatum, labiis integerrimis.
Receptacìdum inclusum.
Fig . 1. Pinna superior :— magn. auct. f. 2. Po rtio laciniæ :— magis auct.
A very beautiful species, and distinguished from all others with wh ich \
secondary segments or divisions o f the fronds all p ointing one way.
re acquainted, by the