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2.3. N. lanuginosn, Desv. ; caudex short thick ascending 

 clothed at the apex witii ferruginous subulate scales, whole 

 plant densely clothed with soft white or more generally fer- 

 ruginous wool less dense on the uj^per side and there not 

 concealing the green of the pinnules, stipites caespitose short 

 stout 1-2 inches long dark-purple when the tonientuin is re- 

 moved, fronds submembranaceous 5-9 inches long 1-1^ inch 

 broad elongato-lanceolate bi-tripinnate, primary pinnee J of 

 an inch long oblong, secondary ones rotundate and if again 

 divided they are ternate with close-placed orbicular pinnules, 

 the margins of the fertile pinnules narrowly reflexed and mi- 

 nutely crenated, sori forming a broad band just within the 

 margin. — Desv. Encycl. Suppl. iv.p. 1 10. Kaulf. Enuni. p. 1.39. 

 ll'ebb, Fl. Can. p. 455. N. vellea, Desv. Bi\ Prodr. p. 146. 

 Acrostichum, Aii. Hort. Keiv. ed. 2. iii, p. Ab^J. A. lanugi- 

 nosum, Desf. FL Alt. ii. p. 400. t. 256. Schk. Fil. t. 1. Sihth. 

 FL Grac. t. 965. N. Plukenetii, Fee, Gen. Fil N. lasio- 

 pteris, Mueller in Herb, nostr. 



Hab. Spain and all the warm regions of the Mediterranean, Greece, etc. N. 

 Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe, Cape de Verd islands {Herb. Par.). Tropical Australia, 

 Brown. Upper Victoria river. Dr. F.Mueller, and also near Lake Torrens. — This 

 is another remarkable instance of a Spanish an<l Mediterranean Fern being like- 

 wise a native of Australia. The other is the Gynmogramme ruiafolia. 



24. N. densa., J. Sm. (name only) ; caudex creeping and 

 bearing small scaly bulbs or tubers, stipites clustered 2-3 

 inches long ebony-purple pilose as well as the rachis, fronds 

 pilose most and ferruginously so beneath subcoriaceous 4-5 

 inches long 1^ inch wide broad lanceolate obtuse bipinuate tri- 

 pinnate at the base, primary pinnee scarcely 1 inch long sub- 

 opposite sessile triangular-ovate, secondary pinnae 3-4 lines 

 long oblong as are the ultimate pinnules of the lowest pair 

 of pinnae very obtuse entire at the margin, sori very broad 

 extending from the margin nearly to the costule. — Kze. in 

 Schk. FiL p. 149. t. 64. /. 2. Cheilanthes, Fee. Metten. CheiL 



p. 24. 



Ilab. Isle of Correeidor, Philippines, Cuming, w. 282. — Mettenius says of this, 

 " Lamina minus divisa, segmentis ])rimariis pinnatipartitis, infra donsius hirsuto- 

 villosis, petiolo hirsuto fortasse non satis ab S[)ecie N. hirsufa diversa." It may 

 be so, and I think he is likely to be correct. 



25. N. mollis, Kze.; caudex creeping bearing tubers pro- 

 ducing fronds both of which are densely clothed with black 

 subulate scales ferruginous at the margins, stipites clustered 



