POPULAR GAEDEN BOTANY. 



the margin : it is a native of the neighbourhood of Graham's 

 Town and Natal, and requires only a temperate greenhouse. 



NOTHOCHLiENA. 



Gen. Char. (Cryptogarrda Filices.) Sori marginal, linear, con- 

 tinuous ; no indusium ; capsule short, pedicellate ; frond hairy. 



The word means spurious and a cloak, as the sori have 

 no real indusia. A beautiful genus of small Ferns, of 

 which some species require the stove, but the following bear 

 the cooler air of the greenhouse : — 2V". nivea, from Mexico ; 

 tenera, from Chili ; EcMoniana, from the Cape ; distans, 

 from Australia ; sinuata, also from Mexico, is an interesting 

 species ; the fronds are about a foot long, the pinnae shortly 

 stalked, near an inch long, oblong, deeply sinuated above, 

 clothed with wool beneath, densely covered with membra- 

 naceous scales, generally white or brownish ; sori marginal. 

 The species of this curious genus are either hairy, woolly, 

 scaly, or covered with powder. 



ADIANTUM. (Maiden-haie.) 



Gen. Char, {Crypto gawda Filices.) The margin of the frond is 



