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C H E IL A N T H E S COOPERÆ, D . C . E a t o n .
Mrs. Cooper’s Lip-Fern.
C h e i l a n t h e s C o o p e r æ : — Stalks densely tufted, variable
in length, brownish, fragile, hairy, like the frond, with somewhat
entangled or straightish nearly white articulated often gland-
tipped and viscid hairs ; frond three to eight inches long, ovate-
lanceolate, bipinnate; the rather distant pinnae oblong-ovate ; pinnules
roundish-ovate, crenate, and incised; the ends of the lobules
reflexed, and forming herbaceous involucres; segments at first
slightly concave, becoming flat at maturity.
Cheilanthes Coopera, D. C. E a t o n , in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical
Club, vi., p. 33 (May, 1875).
Hab. California, in clefts of rocks and on mountain-sides ; near
Santa Barbara, Mrs. E l lw o o d C oo p ek ; Downieville Buttes, Mr. J. G. L em m
o n ; near San Bernardino, Dr. C. C. P a e r v and Mr. I ^EMMON.
D e s c r i p t i o n . — The root-stocks are short, entangled, ascending
rather than creeping, and covered, especially near the growing
end, with narrow, linear-acuminate, crisped, dark-brown scales.
The stalks are crowded together, erect or curved; half to two-
thirds of a line thick; two to four inches long; dark chestnut-
brown; shining, but hirsute-pubescent, as is the whole frond,
with pale-brown or whitish jointed hairs, which are more or less
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