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segments, of a thick, rigid texture. The upper surface is dark green 

 and smooth, whereas the under-side is densely clothed with a thick, short, 

 woolly, rusty-brown substance. — Hooker^ Species Filicum, v., p. 120. Nicholson, 

 Dictionary of Gardening, ii., p. 456. 



N. Newberryi — New-ber'-ry-i (Newberry's), Eaton. 



A very pretty, greenhouse species, native of the southern counties of 

 California, where it is frequently found growing among dry and exposed 

 rocks. It was first discovered in 1857, by Professor J. S. Newberry, near 

 San Diego, and has since been gathered near that city by Professor Wood, 

 Mr. Cleveland, and others. N. Newberryi is said to be abundant in the 

 Temescal Range, and near San Bernardino. It is easily distinguished from 

 all other North American species by the division and the colour of its 

 broadly spear-shaped fronds, oin. to 5in. long, borne on nearly black stalks 

 of the same length, and produced from a thick, creeping, more or less 

 branched rootstock, covered with very narrow, dark brown scales. These 

 fronds are tripinnate (three times divided to the midrib), and a few of the 

 pinnules (leafits) near the midribs being again divided, are thus almost 

 quadripinnate. They are of a soft texture and of a peculiar colour, which 

 on both surfaces is produced by a web of very fine hairs. This covering 

 is very dense on the under-surface, but so thin on the upper one that the 

 green colour of the frond may be seen through it ; it is very variable in 

 colour, deepening as it does with the age, or state of maturation, of the 

 fronds, which when young are creamy white, and when fully developed are 

 of a pale rusty-brown tint. In the fertile fronds the spore masses form 

 a blackish line around the edge of the minute, roundish segments, which 

 are perfectly flat, and they have not even the suggestion of an involucre 

 (covering). — Hooker, SynojJsis Filicum, p. 515. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, ii., p. 456. Eaton, Ferns of North America, i., t. 39. 



N. (Cincinalis) nivea— Cin-cin-a'-Hs ; niv'-e-a (snowy), Desvatix. 



This lovely, stove species, of small dimensions, deservedly one of the 

 most popular in cultivation, is a native of the Andes, from Mexico to Peru. 

 In general aspect it is a counterpart of the better-known N. flavens 

 {N. chrysophylla), which species it resembles in most particulars, though not 



