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Fro n d s glabrous, twelve inches long, u p p e r surface dark green,
beneath glaucous.
Sori numerous, from fourteen to sixteen on a pinnule, oblong,
linear, extending along both the up p e r and lower margin to
the apex.
Stipes and rachis rough, being covered with ferruginous down.
The fronds, Avhich are mostly fertile, are lateral, rising out
of a creeping rhizoma.
A variety is in cultivation in which the pinna; are longer and
more pointed.
IMr. P a rk e r, of Holloway, includes this F e rn in his Catalogue.
N o plan t has been forwarded to me up to th e p resent date,
my thanks are, however, due to Sir William Ho o k e r for fronds.
The illustration is from a frond forwarded by Sir William
Hooker.
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