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FERNS : BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
90. CINCINALIS, Desv. (in part ) ; Fee. 
Vernation fasciculate, erect. Fronds tripinnate, 4-12 inches 
high, slender; pinnae distant, spreading; pinnules ovate, hastate- 
lobed or trifoliate, plane, smooth, glaucous or farinose. Veins 
Genus 90. — Portion of mature frond, under side. No. ]. 
forked, free. Receptacles terminal. Sporangia large, globose, 
sessile, definite, in a short series on the upper portion of the 
venules, becoming laterally confluent, forming a broad sub- 
intramarginal sorus. Indusium obsolete or very narrow. 
* Fronds smooth, glaucous. 
1. C. tenera, Fee. Notholaena tenera. Gill. ; Hook. Rot. Mag. 
t. 3055 ; Kunze, Fil. t. 22, /. 2 ; Hook, et Bauer. Gen. 
Fil. t. 76 A ; Lowe’s Ferns, 1, t. 15. — Chili. 
** Fronds farinose. 
2. C. nivea, Desv. Pteris nivea, Lam.; Sw. Notholaena 
nivea, Desv. ; Kunze, Fil. t. 22, f. 1 ; Lowe’s Ferns, 1, 
t. 19 C. Acrostichum albidulum, Sw. Syn. Fil. t. 1, 
f. 2. Notholaena incana, Presl, Bel. Hcenk. t. 1, 
/. 2. — Tropical America. 
3. C. pulchella, J. Sm. Allosorus pulchellus, Mart, et Gal. 
Fil. Mex. t. 10,/. 1. Pellaea pulchella. Fee; Hook . — 
Mexico. Tr. 
4. C. Hookeri, J. Sm. Notholaena Hookeri, Lowe’s Ferns, 1, 
obs. sub t. 19 C et 1. 13. — Tropical America. 
5. C. flavens, Desv.; Fee, Gen. Fil. 5, t. 30; Lowe’s New 
Ferns, t. 8. Acrostichum flavens, Sw. Gymno- 
gramme flavens, Kaulf. ; Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 47. 
Notholaena chrysopbylla, Hurt — Tropical America. 
