NEOTTOPTEBIS. 



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Wentworth House, with the points of the fronds repeatedly 

 divided, like those of a crested Scolopendrium, and to such 

 an extent was this tassel developed that it quite bent the 

 fronds down. 



MYBIOPTEKIS. See Cheilanthes. 



NEOTTOPTERIS. 



A noble genus of Ferns, formed by Mr. Smith, of Kew, 

 out of Asplenium, from which genus it differs by the con- 

 tinuous marginal vein running on the edge of every leaf or 



Fig. 43, Neottopteris vulgaris. (Top of frond natural aize.) 



