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THE FERNS OF SOUTH AFRICA 
die off during drought, but the ripened crown is capable of 
standing a long-continued drought, even when detached from 
the roots. 
Pellaea auriculata (Thun.). Fee, Gen. 129, 1850-52; C. Chr. Ind. 
478. 
Pellaea auriculata (Link.). Hk. Sp. Fil. 2, 140 ; Hk. and Gr. Ic. 
tab. 1 16; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 145; Sim, Ferns of S. Afr ., 
1st ed., 91. 
Cheilanthes auriculata. Link. Plort. Berol. 2, 36; Kunze, Linnaea , 
10, 531 : 23, 242 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 69. 
Pteris auriculata. Swartz, Schrad. Jour. 1800, 2, 69; Schl. Adum. 
41, tab. 23. 
Allosorus auriculatus. Presl, tab. 153; Pappe and Rawson, 31. 
Adiantuin auriculatuin. Thunb. Prod. 173, 1800; Flor. Cap. 736. 
Pteris co 7 ifluens. Thunb. Prod. 173; Flor. Cap. 733, 1800. 
Adiantum hastatum Thunb., in Hb. Kaulf. ( fide Kuhn, though Thun- 
berg gives Adia 7 itum hastatum L. as a synonym for his Pteris 
hastata = Pellaea hastata (Thbg) Prantl). 
S.-W. Africa only, growing on moist, shady, rotten rocks. 
West. — Table and Devil’s Mts and neighbourhood, common (T. R. 
Sim) ; Piquetberg, Muizenberg and Clan William (Ecklon, 76) ; 
Paarlberg (Drege); Mitchell’s Pass and Namaqualand (Sir H. 
Barkly) ; Kamiesbergen (Drege) ; Olifant’s River (R. Schl. 4998) ; 
Leliefontein (Prof. Pearson, 6691). 
Stated by Kuhn to have been collected in Natal by 
Krauss, but not found since. Not known in Eastern Province 
nor in Kaffraria. 
99. Pellaea Goudotii (Kze) C. Chr. 
Plate 90. Fig. 2. Nat. size. Plate 98. Fig. 1. Var. 7 najor. 
Crown procumbent or shortly creeping, with abundant 
lanceolate, reddish scales. Frond simply pinnate, six to 
twelve inches long, one to three inches broad, on a stout 
stipe four to six inches long, which is scaly at the baseband 
like the rigid rachis clothed with adpressed woolly scales. 
Pinnae fifteen to thirty nearly opposite pairs, very shortly 
stalked, linear, rounded at the point, cordate or slightly 
auricled at the base, three-quarters to one and a half inches 
long, one line broad; edges very much rolled back. Upper 
surface glabrous and shining, or like the under surface (except 
