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SMITH'S FEEN, [natural size). 



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Genus. — Gymnocarpium, (see page 49). 



Species. — Eobeetianum. Rhizome creeping : stipes erect, 

 fully as long as the frond, entirely covered, as well as the frond, 

 ■with minute short-stalked glands, which give the plant a mealy 

 appearance : frond ohlong deltoid ; the first or lowest pair of 

 pinnee are opposite, stipitate, and pinnate, the second pair 



