Victorian Plants. 513 



CXXEXXjANTHXSS. 



2144. Beset with a velvet-like often brownish vestiture. 



Always dwarf ; indument sometimes greyish, occasionally 

 lanuginous ; fronds imperfectly bi-pinnate, their vestiture 

 less copious on the upper side ; pinnules mostly semi- 

 elliptical in outline, the lower deeply divided ; segments 

 or lobes blunt. C. vellea. 



Beset with mostly scattered hairlets or narrow scale- 

 lets or almost glabrous ... ... ... 2145 



2145. Length of fronds several times exceeding their breadth. 



Always dwarf ; vestiture colorless or slightly brownish ; 

 fronds imperfectly bi-pinnate, narrow in outline ; lowest 

 pinnas about as large as the others, many rather rhomboid 

 or even somewhat deltoid in contour, only the upper 

 pinnas closely approximated, but all sessile ; pinnules or 

 lobes blunt. Figure 143. C. distans. 



Length of fronds from hardly to trebly exceeding their 

 breadth. 



Never tall, sometimes much -dwarfed ; fronds bi- or tri- 

 pinnate, rather rigid, from almost semi-lanceolar to nearly 

 deltoid in outline ; lowest pinnas evidently larger than the 

 others and often somewhat stalked ; ultimate pinnules 

 mostly small, from slightly to deeply lobed, often some- 

 what recurved at the margin and irregularly crisped, 

 without any acute denticulation. Figure 144. 



C. tennifolia. 



GRABiaXXTXS. 



2146. Perennial, tufty, beset with brownish vestiture. 



Dwarf ; indument "often copious, consisting of tender some- 

 times glandule-bearing hairlets ; fronds simply pinnate, 

 flaccid ; pinnas or segments short, mostly sessile, from 

 ovate-cuneate to almost rhomboid, often oblique, usually 

 blunt, either few-lobed or but slightly incised or indented, 

 the lower sometimes deeply cleft ; spore-caselets stalked. 

 Figure 152. G. rutifolia. 



Annual, minute, pellucidly membranous, glabrous. 



Very delicate, often single-stemmed ; fronds simply or doubly 

 pinnate, the basal fronds occasionally single and without 

 any deep incisions, usually sterile ; pinnas flat, mostly 

 short-stalked, from flabellular to cuneate-rhomboid, few- 

 lobed or anteriority blunt, denticulated ; fruit-masses 

 often single in the direction of each principal frond-lobe; 

 pore-caselets on very thin stalklets. G. leptophylla. 



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