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European Ferns. 
and the Canaries. It is reported also from Tauria and Syria, and ascends in the Himalayas to 
an elevation of between fourteen and fifteen thousand feet. 
Although not often met with in cultivation, N. Marantce is a very pretty fern, and will 
grow well under greenhouse treatment. 
NOTHOL/ENA LANUGINOSA, Desv. 
This, as its name implies, is a woolly plant, and is at once distinguished from its congener 
by the dense soft woolly coating with which it is covered throughout, although this coating 
is less dense upon the upper side. It is a smaller plant than N, Marantce , the bipinnate fronds 
being about eight inches long and an inch or a little more broad ; they are broadest in the 
middle. The pinna? are lanceolate, placed closely together. It is a very handsome little plant, 
suitable for greenhouse cultivation. 
Like the last, N. lanuginosa is a plant of Spain and the Mediterranean region, extending 
to North Africa, the Cape de Verde Islands, Madeira, and Teneriffe, and also to temperate and 
tropical Australia. This occurrence of a Mediterranean species in Australia is a somewhat 
remarkable fact in plant distribution. 
(1) FROND OF NOTHOL^ENA MARAN'i/K 
(2) UNDKR-blDE OF 1’IN NA. 
