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NOTHO LÆ NA CANDIDA, H o o k e r .
Bright Notholæna.
N o t h o l æ n a Ca n d i d a : — Root-stock creeping, the scales
narrow, rigid and nearly black; stalks tufted, three to six
inches long, wiry, black and shining; frond not so long as
the stalk, deltoid-ovate in outline, pinnate; pinnæ lanceolate
from a broad base, deeply pinnatifid, the lowest pair having
the inferior basal segments much elongated and again pinnatifid,
the other pairs gradually decreasing to the apex of the
frond ; segments oblong; slightly curved, obtuse, minutely
glandular above, beneath covered with white or yellow cera;
ceous powder, except on the blackish midribs; margins slightly
revolute, but not covering the intra-marginal line of dark-
brown sporangia.
Notholæna caoidida, H o o k e r , Sp. Fil., 11., p. 116 , and v., p. 1 1 0 .__
E aton, Ferns of the South-West, p. 307.
Notholæna nilplmrea, J. S m it h , in Seemann’s Bot. Voy. H. M. S. Hcr-
ald, p. 2 3 3 ; Ferns, British and Foreign, p . 173. — H o o k e r &
B a k e r , Syn. F il, p. 373.
Notholæna ptUveracea, K u n z e , in Linnæa, xii!., p. 1 3 5 , and xviii., p.
338. — L ie bm a n n , Mex. Bregn., p. 6 3 .— E a ton , in Bot. Mex.
Boundary, p. 234.
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