44 NOTHOCHLCENA LANUGTNOSA. 



In form, the frond is linear-lanceolate, bipinnate, having 

 rounded ovate blunt pinnules, the terminal pinnule being 

 lobed. 



Usually from four to six inches in length, and about an inch 

 wide; the pinnse being equal in width, except near the apex, 

 where the pinnules become gradually less and less. 



Sori linear, terminal, and when mature, becoming confluent. 



The fronds are attached to a short and somewhat creeping 

 rhizoma. 



A native of Northern Africa, Brazil, and South of Europe. 

 Barbary, the Canary Islands, Madeira, TenerifFe, and Sicilia, 

 are well known countries for this Fern. 



This is not a common species in cultivation in England; it 

 is, however, in the catalogues of Messrs. A. Henderson, of the 

 Pine-apple Place Nursery; Mr. Sim, of the Nursery, Foot's 

 Cray, Kent; and Messrs. Booth and Son, of Hamburgh. 



For plants of this species I am indebted to Mr. Sim, of Foot's 

 Cray, and to Messrs. Booth, of Hamburgh. 



The illustration is from a frond kindly forwarded to me by 

 Mr. Henderson, gardener to Earl Fitzwilliam. 



