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PTERIS UMBROSA.
R. B r o w n . M o o r e a n d H o u l s t o n .
SiEBKH. F e e . j . S m i t h . L i n k . A g a r d h . K u n z e .
P r e s l , {not o f A V a l l i c h . )
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R t e r i s— J3rake. Um h ro sa— S l i a d y .
F e w F e rn s are able to vie with the P te ris umhrosa in its
elegance of growth, I t is a tall, erect-growing, large species,
with weeping pinnæ. With abundance of pot-room it forms
itself into a handsome specimen.
An evergreen greenhouse Fern .
Native of New H o llan d , New South AA’ales, and Australia.
In tro d u c ed into the Roval Gardens, Ivcw, in the year 182-t,
by Air. A. Cunningham.
Fro n d s glabrous, hipinnatc below, pinnate above.
In the sterile frond the segments are linear-acuminate,
having a se rrated margin, and being d e cu rrcn t at the inferior
base. In the fertile frond the segments are linear, narrow,
se rrated at the apex, and d c cu rrcn t at the inferior base; often
ten inches long. T h e b a rren pinnæ only h a lf the width of
the fertile pinnæ.
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