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provided with fewer and more distant, longer, narrow and distinctly -stalked 

 segments ; these are jDod-hke, and their edges are so far recurved as to 

 meet at the mid vein or even to overlap, forming a herbaceous (papery) 

 involucre which spreads when mature. — Hooker, SynojJsis Filicum, p. 144. 

 Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 403. Eaton, Ferns of North 

 America, ii., t. 59. 



C. C. Brunoniana — Bru-no'-m-a'-na (Brown's), Wallich. 



A form of very similar habit to the European species, but with fertile 

 segments oblong, about Jin. long, and with the involucre spreading in the 

 mature plant. The whole plant is of about the same dimensions as the 

 common Mountain Parsley Fern, from which, however, it is thoroughly 

 distinct through its having a well-marked space left free from the fructification 

 to the midvein in the centre. It is a native of Northern India, where it is 

 widely distributed, being found, according to Beddome, in the Shayak Valley 

 at 9000ft. elevation, above Simla, Sikkim-Himalaya, at Kumaon, &c,, where 

 it is met with at altitudes varying between 11,000ft. and 13,000ft. — Hooker, 

 Synopsis Filicum, p. 144. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 403. 

 Beddome, Ferns of British India, t. 164. 



