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Tree fern.
Candex to fast high
3'in diameter covered
with fealty scales.
style bases very densely
covered with fine light
brown long narrow
scales
stipes 2 ft or more long,
deeply grooved above
and on sides, green
above and castaneous
beneath covered with
small lanceolate acuminate.
erect appressed castaneous scales and fine
short glandular hairs.
Found 302 were
green, 2 ft broad,
triangular. Rachis
covered with scales