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Ferns of British India and Ceylon. 



i. Pell/ea Stelleri. {Gmelin under Pteris.) Rhizome wiry, 

 creeping ; stipes scattered, slender, 2-3 

 inches long, naked, straw-coloured or pale- 

 brown, polished, furnished about the base 

 with few linear pale brown scales ; fronds 

 2-4 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, ovate 

 bi-tripinnatifid, often with the lowest pinnae 

 barren, the upper fertile ; pinnae lanceolate- 

 deltoid, 1-2 inches long, cut down to the 

 rachis ; lower pinnule again sometimes 

 slightly divided ; texture thinly herbaceous 

 or flaccid ; rachis and both surfaces naked ; 

 veins visible ; young sori subterminal on the 

 veins, clustered, not forming a marginal line 

 till old ; indusium broad, continuous, mem- 

 branous. Pellaea gracilis, Hook. Syn. Fil. 

 p. 145. Clarke, F N. I. p. 460. Allosorus 

 gracilis (Rup), Bedd. F. B. I. t. 73. 



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PELL/EA STELLERI. 

 (Gmel.) 



N°52. 

 pell^a CONCOLOR. (Langs and Fisch.) 



Himalayas, Baltic, 9,000 

 feet, Kumaon, Champua, 10,000 

 feet, Kashmir, Pir Punjul, 

 11,000 feet; Karakorum, 

 11,000-13,000 feet. 



(Also in Canada and North 

 United States.) 



2. PELLAEA CONCOLOR. 



{Langs and Fisch. under Pteris.) 

 Stipes 6-9 inches long, naked, 

 erect, wiry, brownish- black, po- 

 lished, slightly scaly towards the 

 base; fronds 2-4 inches each way, 

 deltoid, cut down nearly to the 

 rachis into 3-4-pinnae on each 

 side, of which the lowest pair is 

 much the largest, with the 



