178 FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 



■90. CINCIHALIS, Desv. (in part); Fee, 



Y^mation fasciculate, erect. Fronds tripinnate, 4-12 inches 

 high, slender; pinnas distant, spreading; pinnules ovate, hastate- 

 lobed or trifoliate, plane, smooth, glaucous or farinose. Ve<ns 



Genus 90. — Portion of mature frond, under side. No. 1 . 



forked, free. Receptacles terminal. Sporangia large, globose, 

 sessile, definite, in a short series on the upper portion of the 

 venules, becoming laterally confluent, forming a broad sub- 

 intramarginal sorus. Indusium obsolete or very narrow. 



* Fronds smooth, glaucous. 



1. C. tenera, Fee. Kothotena tenera, Gill. ; Hook. Bot. Mag. 



t. 3055; Kitnze, Fil. t. 22, f. 2 ; Hook, et Bauer. Gen. 

 Fil. t. 76 A ; Lowe's Ferris, 1, t. 15.— Chili. 



** Fronds farinose. 



2. C. nivea, Desv. Pteris nivea, Lam.; Sw. Notholaina 



nivea, Desv. ; Kunze, Fil. t. 22, f. 1 ; Lowe's Ferns, 1, 

 t. 19 G. Acrostichum albidulum, Sw. Sijn. Fil.t. 1, 

 /. 2. Notholasna incana, Presl, Bel. Hoznh. t. 1, 

 /. 2. — Tropical America. 



3. C pulehella, /. Sm. Allosorus pulchellus, Mart, et Gal. 



Fil. Hex. t. 10,/. 1. Pellaea pulehella, Fee; Hook. — 

 Mexico. Tr. 



i. C. Hookeri, J. Sm. Nothohena Hooteri, Lowe's Fems,l, 

 obs. sub t. 19 G et 1. 13. — Tropical America. 



/>. 0. fla^enS; Desv.; Fee, Gen. Fil. 5, t. 30; Lowe's New 

 F?ms, t. 8. Acrostichum flavens, Sw. Gymnc- 

 grarnme flavens, Kaulf.; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 47. 

 Notholasna chrysophylla, Hort. — Tropical America. 



