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Fig. 855.— Pinna of fertile frond, under side. 



CYSTOPTERIS MONTANA. 



Bernhardi. 



The Mountain Bladder Fern. 



PLATE LXVIII. 



Cystoijteris montana, 



Allioni, 

 Mijrrhidifolla, 



Cyathea montana, 



Athijrium montanum; 



Asjiidiuyn viontamhm, 



Pohipodmin m ontnnum, 



" Myrrhidifolmm, 



Bernhardt. Hooker and Arnott. Fee. 

 Presl. Link. Newman. Babington. 

 Deakin. Moore. Bentham. Koch. 



SOWERBY. LeDEBOUR. E. J. LoWE. 



Newma-n. 

 Newman. 

 Smith. Rotu. 



EOHLING. 



Swartz. Schktjhr. Willdenow. 



Sprengel. Nyman. 



Lamarck. Allioni. Hcenke. Poiret. 



ViLLARS. 



Cydoiitcris — From, hystos — a bladder, on account of the inflated induyiuui, 

 and pteris — a Fern. Montana — Mountain. 



A DISTINCT species, with triangular, fragile, tripinnate fronds, 

 and having a long creeping rhizoma. 



Found first in 1836, on Ben Lawers, in Perthshire, by Mr. 

 AV. Wilson, and since then by other botanists on mountains 



