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CHEILANTHES LENDIGERA.
S w a r t z . H o o k e r .
P L A T E X X IV . V O L . IV .
Cheilanthes lentigera,
“ lanuginosa,
“ minor,
“ fr ig id a ,
F te r is lendigera,
Myrio p teris lendigera,
Noîholæna lendigera.
AVil l d e n o w . K u n z e . L in k .
P e e s l . L e ib m a n n . F e e .
(N o t o f M aETENS & G.ALLEOTTI.)
M a e t e n s a n d G a l l e o t t i .
M a e t e n s a n d G a l l e o t t i .
O f G a e d e n s .
C a v a n il l e s .
F e e . S m i t h .
J . S m i t h .
Cheilanthes—F rom th e Greek ; a lip, and a flower.
Lendige ra—Maggot-bearing.
A V E R Y handsome F e rn , easily grown, and making a good
ex hibition plant.
A n evergreen stove species.
Na tiv e of Mexico, Quito, and N ew Grenada.
Leibmann mentions th a t it grows in cracks of rooks in community.
Luis N é e found it at Ix in iq u ilp an , in Mexico; Schiede
also in Malpays de la H o y a ; Galleotti on gneis and chrystalline
limestone in Misteca alta at Penóles, at an altitude of from
six thousand five h u n d re d to eight thousand feet; also in
Ba ranca de Riogrande de Lerma, at an altitude of four thousand
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