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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: poundly pinnate. Stipes frequently aculeated. Hook. Gen. FlL. TAB. 2 AND 23. Subgen. I. Notocarpia, Presl. Sori situated upon a vein or veinlet, not at the forking. Schizocoeua, J. Sm. Hook. Gen. Fil. Tab. 2. 1. C. sinuata, Hook, et Grev.; fronds simple lanceolate very much elongated sinuated at the margin.?Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 106. 11 a 11. Ceylon, Dr. Emerson, Mrs. Col. Walker. ? The cau'iex of this is about an inch in diameter, clothed with the dark hrown almost black bases of the stipites of the old fronds, hearing a crown of elegant simple long wavy fronds at the top. These have a stout costa. The veins are pinnated and the veinlets bear the sori near the middle. Involucre globose or slightly depressed, bursting very irregularly at the top, so as to become cup-shaped with a very uneven margin. Receptacle globose. Capsules on long stalks. 2. C. Brunonis, Wall.; fronds pinnate, pinnae oblongo-lau- ceolate acuminated with a long narrow point sinuato-crenate often serrated at the margin above.? Wall. Cat. n. 179. Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 2. C. longifolia, Wall, in Herb. 1823. llali. Pulo Penang, Dr. Wallich, Lady Dalhousie. Malacca, Cuming. n. 378.?This is a truly beautiful fern, but of which the caudex is unknown to me, nor is it described in Dr. Wallich's MS. volumes of ferns, which I owe to that gentleman's liberality. The stipes is one or two feet long; the frond 2?3 feet, alternately pinnated: pinnae 6?8 inches long, between membranous and coriaceous, obliquely truncated at the base and shortly petiolate, tapering into a narrow acumen at the point. Sori copious, from the middle of the forked veins or veinlets. Involucre of the same structure as the preceding, but in age more lacerated and lobed. Capsules stalked. 3. C. Mexicana, Schlecht.; unarmed, rach...
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