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woolly hairs, while the under -side, as is the case with all other known 

 plants belonging to the same group, is more or less coated with white 

 powder. The small, roundish sori (spore masses) are abundantly produced 

 and disposed along the margin of the pinnules ; they are covered with 

 brown, cihated involucres. Fig. 11 is reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns 

 of British India," by the kind permission of the author. — Hooher, Species 

 Filicum, ii., p. 79, t. 99a. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 308. 

 Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 144. 



C. rufescens — ru-fes'-cens (reddish). A name applied in Continental 

 gardens to C. cuneata. 



C. (Physapteris) SCariosa — Phy-sap'-ter-is ; scar-i-o'-sa (shrivelled, 

 dry), Kaulfuss. 



A stove species, native of the Andes of Peru, with fronds 6in. to Sin. 

 long, lin. broad, narrowly spear-shaped, and bipinnate (twice divided to the 

 midrib), borne on densely-tufted stalks only lin. to 2in. long and densely 

 covered with large scales of a whitish-brown colour. The numerous leaflets, 

 linear-oblong and Jin. to fin. long, are cut down to the rachis (stalk of 

 the leafy portion) into pinnules (leafits) of similar shape, both surfaces of 

 which are densely coated with spear-shaped, pointed scales, bright brown in 

 the centre and silvery -white towards their hairy margin. The edge of the 

 segments, on which the copious roundish sori (spore masses) are disposed, is 

 conspicuously incurved. — Hooker, Species Filicum, ii., jop- 99 -104a. 



C. (Adiantopsis) Schimperi — Ad-i-ant-op'-sis ; Schim-pe'-ri (Schimper's), 

 Hooker. 



A greenhouse species, native of Abyssinia, with fronds 3in. to 4in. 

 each way, borne on wiry, erect, glossy stalks Sin. to 6in. long and of a 

 chestnut-brown colour. The lower leaflets are much the largest, and are 

 divided into narrow ultimate segments of a somewhat leathery texture, 

 sometimes entire, at other times distinctly toothed. The numerous small sori 

 (spore masses) are evenly disposed along both margins of the segments. 

 In general habit this species resembles the better-known C. tenuifolia and 

 Hypolepis californica. — Hooker, Species Filicum, ii. p. 70. 



