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PTERIS CRETICA,L.
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F E R N S OF NORTH AM E R IC A . 141
P l a t e LXIV.
P T E R IS C R E T IC A , L i n n æ u s .
Cretan B ra k e .
P t e r i s C r é t i c a : — Root-stock creeping, the advancing
end sending up numerous fronds; stalks often eighteen inches
long, slender, sparingly chaffy at the base, otherwise smooth,
stramineous when dry; fronds coriaceo-membranaceous, smooth,
a few inches to nearly a foot long, ovate, ternate, quínate or
pinnate ; the lower pinnæ two-or three-parted, sessile, the upper
ones decurrent, terminal one elongated ; sterile ones
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, narrowly cartilaginous-margined
and finely serrate; fertile fronds taller than the sterile, the
pinnæ longer and narrower, entire or spinulose-serrate at
the acuminate apex; veins straight, simple or forked; involucre
narrow, continuous, entire.
P/W s Crética, L in n æ u s , “ Mantissa, p. 130.”— S w a r t z , Syn. Fil., p.
96- — S c h k u h r , Krypt. Gew., p, 85, t. 90, — W i l l d e n o w , Sp.
Pl., V., p. 375. — J. G. A g a r d m , Reccns. Gen. Pteridis., p. 8.—
H o o k e r , Sp. Fil., ii., p. 160. — E a t o n , in Chapman’s Flora, p.
589.— H o o k e r & B a k e r , Syn. F i l , p. 154. — M i l d e , Fil. Eur.
et Atlant., p. 4 1. — F o u r n i e r , PI. Mex., Crypt., p. 114 .
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