Notholena. | CXLVII, FILICES. 773 
thus, with which it is oman by F. Mueller and some others, but m recurved margins 
d 
of the fronds can scarcely be regarded as true indusia, Some ern purists have 
altered Brown’s name S o Nothuahlana but the contraction of xAawa 1nto Lena, after 
the example of the Romans, has been too generally sanctioned z4 botani ists in many 
other cases, such as Dicen. Er ee Mier olena, etc., to be here ema 
tud 1 to3 in. high, e baje membranous and me 
vided or 3-1 . N, pumilio. 
Fronds laóoeclite i in Satine, * to 10 in. i. high, once or twice 
pinnate with pinnatifid pinn 
Gnas rate covered aot with more or less 
woolly scales . Ss : 
Pinne de Aie covered underneath with bristly scales . 3. N. distans. 
E —— deltoid in outline, under 6 in. high, 
thrice gems c sprinkled v ‘with Tia — 
i hon; . 4. N. fragilis. 
l. N. pumilio, 2. Br. Prod. 146.—Fronds tufted, 1 to 3 in. high, 
simply pinnate, with a filiform rhachis. Pinne few, ovate or oblong, 
obtuse, 3 to 5 lines lon ng, membranous, without scales, entire or the 
lower ones with a short lateral lobe on one or bo th bee the upper 
consistence.—F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 175; N. paucijuga, Bak. 
Filie. 515 
tralia, Darwin, Schultz, 
citata | digas River, dens. € Solander, N. Taylor. 
i. p Hook. Spec. Filic. v. 
Soc. Linn. P. 
0 
119, Syn. Filic. 370 ; N. Brownei, Desv. in 
220 ; Gymnogramme ink, Kuhn in Bot. Zeit. 1869, 458 ; Notholena 
} i . Cheilanthes vellea, 
F. Muell. Fragm. v. 
N. Australia, Arnhem S. Bay, R. Brown; Uppe Victoria Bm Sea 
Range, F. Mueller ; Aeka Land, anri nlay ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 954. á 
ueensland. pe York, -n ; Cleveland € M ham Ba ys, W. Hiil, 
Dailachy, Gulliver ; ‘Gilbert R ver, Dine; Suttor River, Bowman. : 
|. Wales. "In the itor a Lachlan and Darling to the Barrier 
Range, Victorian Expedition and og d 
S. À Australia. jy ke Torrens, E enm; ; Gawler Range, Sullivan; Lake 
Eyre, Andrews ; Macdonnell Range, 
W. Australia. Fraser's Range, pa, 
