Plants 1-2 dm. high, growing in clusters ; leaves line- 
ar-lanceolate ; pinnae deeply pinnatifid, ovate-oblong, 
I cm. or less 1., sessile, more or less covered with a 
brownish chaff, lobes rounded ; sori confluent, at length 
covering more or less the lower face of the leaf. 
Increvicesofrocks. 
Stonj Man Mountain, E. S. Steele, Palmer, King. 
tt Leaves J-pinnatlf id ^ piniiae rather distant , 
2. W. obtusa (Spreng.) Torr. PI. 5. 
Polypodium obtiisiim Spreng". i8o4. Anleit. 3 : 
92. 
Woodsia obtusa Torr, 1840. Geol. Rep. N. Y; 
1843. Fl. N. Y. 2 : 500. Eaion^ 1. c. 2 : 189. 
t. 71. ff. 5-8 ;in Gray, 1. c. 691. Underw. in 
111. Fl. i: II ; Niit. Ferns 122; in Britt. 1. c. 
18. Clute,^ 1. c. 96. Waters,^ 1. c. 280. 
Woodsia. 
Plants 2-4 dm. high; leaves linear-lanceolate; pinnae 
tapering both ways, 4cm, or less 1., ovate-oblong; pin- 
nules oblong, obtuse, i cm. or less 1., lobes -rounded, 
variously toothed ; sori at length confluent. 
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