^'° FEENS : BRITISH AND rOEEIGN. 



90. CINCI'NAI,lS,Desv.{'mpaH,); Fee., 



Vei-nation fasciculate, erect. Fronds tripinnate, 4-12 mches 

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

 lobed or trifoliate, plane, smooth, glaucous or farinose. Yems 



Genus flo. — Portion of matore frond, under side. No. 1. 



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

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

 venules, becoming laterally confluent, forming a broad sub- 

 intramarginal sorus. Ind/irnvm, obsolete or very narrow. 



* Fronds smooth, glattcous. 



1. C. tenera, Fee. Notholaena tenera, dill.; Hooh.Bot. Mag, 



t. 3055; Eunze, Fil. t. 22, f. 2 ; SooTc. et Bauer. Gen. 

 Fit. t. 76 A ; Loree's Ferns, 1, t. 15.— Chili. 



** Fronds farinose. 



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



nivea, Besv. ; K^mze, FU. t. 22, f. 1 ; Lowe's Ferns, 1, 

 t. 19 G. Acrostichum albidulum, 8w. Syn. Fil.t. 1, 

 /. 2. Notholssna incana, Presl, Bel. Hcenk. t. 1, 

 f. 2. — Tropical America. 



3. C. pulchella, /. 8m. Allosorus pulchellus. Mart, et Gal. 



Fil. Mex. t. 10, f. 1. Pellsea pulchella. Fee; Hook. — 

 Mexico. Tr. 



4. C. Hookeri, J. 8m. Nothotena Hookeri, Lowe's Ferns, 1, 



ohs. sub t. 19 et 1. 13. — Tropical America. 



6. C. flavens, Besv.; Fee, Gen. Fil. 5, t. 30; Lowe's New 

 Ferns, t. 8. Acrostichum flavens, 8w. Gymno- 

 gramme flavens, Kaulf.; Boole. Fil. Fxot. t. 47. 

 Notholsena chrysophylla, Sort. — Tropical America. 



