cultivated for their distinctness of character, Nothocldmna
marantcB should be more frequently grown.
Sprengel, Willdenow, Schkuhr, Linnæus, etc., have considered
the present F e rn to be an Acrostichum, whilst De Candolle
places it in the same family with our lovely British Ceterach
officinarum.
Fronds ovate-lanceolate, hipinnate, b lu n t oblong pinnules,
the lower pinnules stalked, entire at the ap ex ; densely covered
beneath with reddish scales, frond rising out of a short stout
creeping rhizoma.
Sori terminal and marginal.
A stiff-growing frond, varying in length from six to ten
inches.
F o u n d in the south of E u ro p e , Madeira, Teneriffe, the
Canary Isles, and in Abyssinia.
A n evergreen greenhouse species, easily cultivated.
Mr. Sim, of F o o t’s Cray N u rse ry , has been good enough to
send me a plant of N . marantæ, and I have received excellent
fronds from Miss K ingston, of Colwick; Mr. Sim, of F o o t’s
C ray ; Mr. James A tk in s, of Fainswick; and from Mr. Norman,
of H u ll.
I believe th a t Mr. Sim, of F o o t’s Cray, and Messrs. A. H e n derson,
of F ine-apple Fla c e , are the only E n g lish N urserymen
having plants for sale. I t is in the Catalogue of Messrs. Booth,
of Hamburg.
The illustration is taken from a frond forwarded by Mr. Atkins,
of Fainswick.
NOTHOCHLÆNA RUFA.
P resl. M oore and H oülston. F ee . K unze.
J. Sm ith .
P L A T E X V I I I .— 1!.
Nothochlæna rufa,
Cheilanthes fe rruginea.
P e e s l .
W i l l d e n o w . L in k .
S p e e n g e l . K a u l f u s s .
Abi/ioc/ifena—Spurious cloak. Æ«/a—Red.
Nothochlcena ru fa is a F e rn p artaking somewhat of the
ch a ra c te r and general appearance of N . triehomanoides. I t is
a rare species in cultivation, and not to be procured at the
E n g lish Nurseries. In habit it is slender, and ra th e r straggling.