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دن‎ 
LASTREA. 
LASTREA SPINULOSA, (Desv.) Stipes tufted, about 1 foot long, sparingly clothed with ovate concolorous scales ; 
fronds 12-18 inches long, 6-8 inches broad, oblong-lanceolate ; lower pinnæ subdeltoid, 3-4 inches long, 14-2 inches broad, the lowest 
pair about equal to the next ; pinnules ovate-lanceolate, the largest about 1 inch long, 4 inch broad, cut down to the rachis below into 
close oblong lobes with copious aristate teeth ; texture herbaceous, rachis stramineous, scarcely scaly ; under surface not glandular ; 
colour pale-green ; snvolucre not gland-ciliated. Hk. Brit. F.t, 20.—f. Nephrodium dilatatum, Desv. ; scales denser and narrower, 
dark-brown in the centre ; fronds ovate-lanceolate or subdeltoid, larger and more deeply cut, the colour a darker and brighter green ; the - 
pinnc closer, the under surface often finely glandular, the involucre gland-ciliated. Hk. B. F.t.19—y. N. remotum (A. Br, sub Aspid.) ; 
scales lanceolate, concolorous, extending to the rachis; fronds oblong-lanceolate, about 2 feet long, 6 inches broad ; pinnæ lanceolate, | 
close ; pinnules ovate-oblong, only the lowest free, the largest about 1 inch long, 4 inch broad, cut half-way down to the rachis or - 
more, piadosa teeth few ; under side and involucre not glandular. Hk. Brit. F. t. 22.—8. N, Bootii (Tucker, sub Aspid.) ; habit and 
scales of 4; pinnæ distant: lanceolate ; lowest pinnule scarcely free, the largest about 4 inch long, 4 inch broad, cut from one-third to — 
half-way down to the rachis below. L. collina, Vewm.—e. lepidota, Moore ; rachises chesnut brown, scaly ; fronas subdeltoid ; lower 
pinne deltoid, 5-6 inches each way ; lowest pinnules much the largest, often 3 inches long, 2 inches broad, its segments cut down to 
the rachis below and with lobes again deeply pinnatifid. —Syn. Fil. p, 275. 
Hab. W. Himalayas, Arctic Europe and America, southward to Maa the Mediterranean and Carolina, Bourbon and 
Cape Colony. A very variable plant. i 
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