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surface smooth or minutely granular ; lines of fruit forking, bursting through 
the colored powder, and at length nearly obscuring it—Enum. Fil. p. 73 ; 
Hook. & Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 153 ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 10. 
Common in California, and said to occur as far northward as Vancouver Island, and to reappear 
in Ecuador. The plant from New Mexico referred to in the Botany of Whipple’s Expedition, p. 160, is 
probably Notholena Hookeri, which bears a considerable resemblance to small specimens of the present 
species. Commonly called California Gold-Fern. The powder on the under surface of the frond is 
usually a clear iecni rate , but varies from deep orange to a pure white. In Hooker’s Herbarium 
are specimens from Nuttall, with three MS. names, G. Oregona, G. viscosa, and G. pyramidata. 
Gymnogramme hispida, Mettenius. 
Rootstocks creeping; stalks grayish, puberulent; fronds 5-angled, 1-3 
inches long and broad, hispid above, tomentose beneath, chaffy like the 
rachis with minute linear scales, pinnate ; lower pinnz much the largest and 
unequally triangular, again pinnated ; pinnz and lower segments lobed or 
crenated; the lobes rounded and very obtuse, the basal ones adnate to the 
rachis or midrib, and forming an interrupted wing, alternating with the 
pinne; veins all free—Kuhn in Linnea, xxxvi, p. 72. G. podophylla, 
Hook. Sp. Fil v, p. 152, in part. G. pedata, Katon in Robinson’s Catalogue, 
not of Kaulfuss. 
New ears (c. Hh hctan a Sumner), Arizona (Clarence King), and at the Chiricahua Mts., Dr. 
Rothrock.—This comes very n to G. pedata, Kaulfuss, with which I have heretofore Sectounted 303 
but it is sathetniiley diadtag otthved by the rounded segments, and adsiially by the decurrent basal lobes, 
which form an interrupted wing on the main and secondary rachises, much as in Phegopteris polypo- 
ioides. 
Ill. NOTHOLZANA. R. Brown. 
Sori on the veins at or near their extremities, roundish or oblong, soon 
more or less confluent into a narrow marginal band, with no proper invo- 
lucre, but sometimes covered at first by the inflexed edge of the frond. 
Veins always free. Fronds of small size, 1-3- or 4-pinnate, the under sur- 
face almost always either hairy, tomentose, chaffy, or pulveraceous. 
enus of less than forty species, most abundant in dry, rocky places from New Mexico to Chile, 
pe two are Mediterranean, and a few occur in South Africa, Australia, etc. The genus borders closely 
mnogramme on the one hand, and on the other is barely distinguishable from those species of Chei- 
aoe in which the involucre is not well developed. 
*Frond minutely scaly beneath. 
Notholzna sinuata, Kaulfuss. 
Rootstock short and thick, very chaffy with narrow rusty scales ; 
fronds 6 inches to 2 feet high; narrow and rigid, simply pinnate; pinne ~ 
20 BOT 
