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NO THO LÆ NA F E N D L E R I . K u n z e .
F e n d le r ’ s N otholæna .
N o t h o l æ n a F e n d l e r i : ~ Root-stock short, creeping or
assurgent, thickly covered with narrow light-brown chaffy scales ;
stalks numerous, tufted, wiry, dark-brown and polished ; fronds
two to four inches long, broadly deltoid-ovate, four or five times
pinnate, the rachis and all its divisions flexuous and zigzag, divaricate
and often entangled, brown and shining; primary, secondary,
and tertiary pinnæ alternate; ultimate pinnules sometimes
opposite, one or two lines long, obovate-oval and entire, or two-
to three- lobed, the upper surface scantily and the under surface
abundantly whitened with a waxy powder; sporangia seated on
the upper portions of the veins, bursting through the ceraceous
coating.
Notholæna Fendleri, K u n z e , Die Farrnkraüter, ii., p. 87, t. 136. — H o o k e r ,
S p . Fil., V., p . 1 1 3 . — P o r t e r , Syn. FI. Colorado, p . 1 5 3 , — E aton ,
Ferns of the South-West, ined.
Notholæna dealbata, T o r r e y , Pacif. R. Rep., iv., p. 160, not of Kunze.
Cincinalis Fendleri, F é e , Gen. Fil., p. i6o.
Gymnogramme Fendleri, M e t t e n iu s , Cheilanthes, p. 7.
H a b . — Clefts of exposed rocks, frofri the mountains of Colorado to
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, many collectors.
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