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Blechnum (This genus comprises about)

This genus comprises about a score species of closely resembling Ferns, widely diffused throughout tropical and South temperate regions. To those described on pp. 193-5, Vol. I., the following should now be added: B. rugosum (wrinkled). sti. 3in. to 6in. long, densely glandular-hairy above, as is the rachis. fronds linear-lanceolate, acuminate, about 1ft. long, the surface wrinkled, glandular-hairy; pinnae with a stalk-like base below, confluent above, oblong, blunt or sometimes abruptly acute, falcately curved. sori linear, medial, extending from the base nearly to the apex of the pinnae. 1884. Greenhouse.