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as in Pellæa, a genus in which, I believe, no other species
with farinaceous fronds have as yet been placed. But the
fern most nearly resembling this one is Pellæa rohmdifolia,
of New Zealand, a plant with taller fronds, equally rounded
pinnæ, and a shaggy-paleaceous stalk and rachis. I am content,
therefore, to leave this fern in Pellæa, section Plalyioma,
where it is placed in Synopsis Filicum.
Plate X L I II . — Fig. 1-4 . Pdloea Bridg es ii, a specimen from the
Mariposa Grove collected by Mr. Bolander. Fig. 2 is an enlarged
pinna. Fig. 3 is a portion of a pinna mote highly magnified, and
showing the margin partly refiexed. Fig. 4, a spore.
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