Ferns: British and . botanists as regards these species, and perhaps thepresent Fern may not be distinct from P. Catharince. An evergreen stove Fern. Native of Brazil and St. Catharine. Fronds pinnatifid, alternate, glabrous, somewhat slender andpendulous, and in this respect differs from the species abovereferred to; lateral, and articulated on a green, creeping rhi-zoma, covered with peltate, fimbriated, brown scales; pinnuleslinear-oblong, membranous, somewhat obtuse, undulated, andrepand. Sori small and biserial; yellowish in colour. 86 POLYPODIUM LATIPES. Length of frond from twe
Ferns: British and . botanists as regards these species, and perhaps thepresent Fern may not be distinct from P. Catharince. An evergreen stove Fern. Native of Brazil and St. Catharine. Fronds pinnatifid, alternate, glabrous, somewhat slender andpendulous, and in this respect differs from the species abovereferred to; lateral, and articulated on a green, creeping rhi-zoma, covered with peltate, fimbriated, brown scales; pinnuleslinear-oblong, membranous, somewhat obtuse, undulated, andrepand. Sori small and biserial; yellowish in colour. 86 POLYPODIUM LATIPES. Length of frond from twelve to twenty-four inches; colourdull green. Introduced into the Royal Gardens, Kew^ by Messrs. Loddiges,in 1841. My thanks are due to Mr. Thomas Moore, of the BotanicGardens, Chelsea, for plants and fronds of this Fern. In the Catalogues of Messrs. A. Henderson, of Pine-applePlace; Stansfield, of Todmorden; and Kennedy, of CoventGarden, but perhaps not the true species. The illustration is from a plant in my own YT-
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