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-nules closely overlapping, base wedge-shaped 

 with curved sides, outer margin rounded, very 

 deeply and narrowly cut. Texture thin. We 

 have not seen this variety in fruit. [Fig. 26.] 



FIG. 26.' Adiantum tenerum Sw. var. farleyense. 

 A few pinnules (nat. size). 



8. Adiantum capillus veneris L. 



Rhizome creeping, densely scaly. Stipes 

 scaly, purplish black and polished. Fronds 2-3 

 pinnate ; ultimate pinnules J-i inch broad, 

 obliquely fan-shaped with the upper edge ir- 

 regularly rounded, sometimes broadly lobed, 

 lobes finely toothed when sterile ; rachis and 



