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PTERIS PEDATA. PEDATE-LEAVED Brake. 
EHH inekeok 
Class and Order. 
- Crrprogastta Fidtcee: 
‘Se Nat. Ord.—Finices. ) 
Generic Piven. 
* 
Sort continui, lineares, marginales. Inclicrat e mar- 
gine frondis inflexum interius ¢ esas, | 
‘te % 
Specific Character and. Synonyms. 
Preris* pedata; fronde 5-partita glabra, Jaciniis nnati-— 
fidis acutiusculis, lateralibus basi unitis, Gdns ‘ae. 
flexis, stipite levi. . 
Preris pedata. Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 205. ~- Schick 
p. 91. t. 100, Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 358. Ra 
Brasil. p. Ad. t. 65. f. 3. t. 66 a y bis. _ Spreng. § | 
, Veget. 0.4. p. 10. ~ 
Hemionitis foliis atro-virentibus, Se. Aline, —— 0. iF 
p. 12 
ale profunde laciniata, &c. Plum. Am. p. 2A. t. 
oF. It. p. WB 4. 162. 
Se 
Descr. Root a dense mass of dark brown, woolly fibres. 
Stipites several from the same root, four to six inches long, 
dark purple-brown, glabrous, smooth and very glossy, often 
alittle wavy. Fronds very variable. In the specimen before 
me, the young ones are palma ely six- -lobed, the lobes short, 
obtuse, the margin sinuated. As these advance to matu- 
rity, the divisions become ¢ -, the seginents longer, and 
the frond is cer dae palmated manner; the ar 
e 
is. 
* The same as wreps, a Fern, , and that from wrepué, a plume, or 
Seather. 
