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91. PELLJEA, Link. 



Vernation fasciculate, erect or decumbent, squamose. Fronds 

 palmate, pinnate, or bi-tripinnate, 5 inches to 6 feet high ; pin- 

 nules articulated to the rachis or to a short petiole. Veins 

 forked; venules free. Receptacles terminal, generally con- 



Genus 91 .Fertile pinna, under side. No. 6. 



tiguous, forming a more or less broad, compound, continuous 

 marginal sorus, or rarely distant, and each receptacle forming 

 definite round sori. Indusium linearly continuous or sub- 

 rotund and special to each receptacle. 



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