riLTCES (fern family.) 



00 ; 



2. N. Marauta;, 



L. 21 Creeping root- 

 stock densely covered 

 with rusty chaff. Fronds 

 .15 to .4 high, long stip- 

 ed, oblong-lanceolate, 

 green, glabrous at upper 

 surface, densely clothed 

 at lower with silvery-ru- 

 fescent scales, bipinuate, 

 pinnules oblong, obtuse, 

 entire — May and June — 

 Clefts of rocks ; Cassius, 

 Amanus, and north- 

 ward. 



Fig. 427. 



Fig. 438. 



Tip of frond of Notochlsena 

 MarantiE. 



(a) Tip of frond of ( lieilan- 

 thes fragrans. (6) A pin- 

 nule, with reflexed indusia, 

 and woollv induinent. 



y. CHEIL,A]\^THES, Sw. Lip Fern. 

 Sori marginal, with few sporangia,' distinct or at length confluent, 

 tnore or less covered by the reflexed margin of the pinnules, which is 

 fringed with white wool— Low, tufted perennials, with ;J-pinnate, 

 dark-green leaves. 



Ch. fragrans, L. 1i Neck clothed witli rusty scales. Fronds 

 glabrous, .1 to .15 high, with brown, shining stipes, oblong-lanceolate; 

 ultimate segments round-ovate, lowermost few-lobed or parted - April 

 to July — Clefts of rocks; common. Plant delightfully fragrant in 

 drying. 



§. PTERIN, L. Brake. 



Sorus" linear, occupying a Fig. 420. 



receptacle along the whole mar- 

 gin of fertile frond, and more or 

 less covered by an indusium 

 arising from or near the edge. 

 Stipe continuous with root-stock. 

 -Fertile and sterile fronds dis- 

 tinct, or lower segments sterile, 

 and upper fertile. 



1. P. lOllgifoIia, L. Ti tiie niart^'in'onUppi 



Root-stock clothed with rusty ^i'"''''"^'^- 



scales at apex. Fronds .3 to 1 high, lanceolate, coriaceous, piniuifisfrt 

 into many pairs of opposite, linear-lanceolate segments, those of the 

 sterile fronds, and the inferior oucsof tlie fertile broader, cartilaginous- 

 toothed — March to August — Banks of streams; commou. 



2. P. aqiiiliiia, L. It Bracken. Dlshdr. Root-stock black, 

 na^ed at apex. Frond dull-green, .7 to 1 high and broad, tcrnatc at the 

 apex of a stout stalk .3 or more high, the branches 2-piunatiscct ; piunulea 

 oblong-lanceolate, the upper undivided, the lower more or less pinnati- 

 fid — Summer — SVoods and mountain sides to alpiue regions. 



9. BL.E€lli\U]fI, L. Blecilnum. 



Sori linear, continuous on either side of midrib of pinna, parallel to 

 it and occupying the whole space between it and the marginal anasto- 



(M 



(a) Undeveloped pinna 

 Scjrnient of a developed pinna, witlj 



of Pteris longifolia. 



part 1)1 



de rolled bacit. showing the 



