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FERNS OF NORTH AMERICA.
P l a t e XI. — F ig . 2.
P E L LÆ A P U L C H E L L A . F é e .
P ret ty C liff-B ra k e .
P e l l æ a p u l c h e l l a : — Root-stock very short, rather stout,
nearly erect; stalks numerous, clustered, three to eight inches
long, chaffy at the base with narrow crisped scales, nearly black,
and polished, like the rachis and branchlets ; frond as long as the
stalk or longer, deltoid-ovate, quadripinnate at the base, becoming
gradually simpler above ; ultimate pinnules numerous, very small,
one to three lines long, distinctly stalked, oval or cordate-ovate,
obtuse, sub-coriaceous, smooth, the edges often much rolled in ;
involucre herbaceous.
Pellæa pulchella, Fée, Gen. F il, p. 129 ; Fougères Mexicaines, Catak, p. 8.
— H o o k e r , Sp. Fil., ii., p. 150. — E a ton , in Botany of Mexican
Boundary, p. 233. — H o o k e r & B a k e r , Svn. F i l , p. 150. — F ourn
i e r , Mex. PL Enum., p. 119 .
Allosorus pulcJiellus, M a r t e n s & G a l eo t t i, Syn. Fil. Mex., p. 47, t. 10, f. i.
Allosorus formostcs, L ie em a n n , Mexicos Bregner, p. 68.
Cincinalis pulchella, J. S m ith , Ferns, British and Foreign, p. 178.
Pellæa microphylla, M e t t e n iu s , K u h n , in L in n æ a , x x x v i ., p. 86 .
Pellæa pulchella, var. microphylla. B a k e r , Syn. Fil., ed. ii., p. 477.
H a b . — Western Texas and New Mexico, W r ig h t , B ig e low , S c h o t t ;
Mexico to Peru.
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