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NOTHOCHLCENA VESTITA. 

 Desvaux. J. Smith. Kaulfuss. Moore and Houlston. 



LODDIGE. 



PLATE XVI. — B. 



Clieilantliea vestita, 



" lanuginosa, 



Adiantum vestitum, 

 As^ndium lanosum, 

 Neplirodium lanosum, 

 IVoodsia vestita. 



Ktjnze. Swaetz. Peesl. Fee. 



SCHKTJHE. HoOKEE. "VYlLLDENOW. 

 NUTTAXL. 



Speengel. 



SWAETZ. 

 MiCHAUX. 



Speengel. 



Nothoclilcena — Spurious cloak. 



Vestita — Clothed, 



This very pretty, slender, dwarf, TFbof/s?'a-looking Fern is 

 a desirable species, and probably not uncommon in Ferneries, 

 from the circumstance that formerly it was sold as the English 

 Woodsia ihensis. 



The fronds are linear, bipinnate, with nearly circular ovate 

 pinnae; the pinnules pinnatifid, having a crenate margin. 



Length of frond from five to ten inches, being attached to a 

 short creeping rhizoma. Densely covered with hairs, giving the 

 stipes a red ajjpearance. 



Sori marginal, terminal, round, eventually becoming confluent. 



