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P l a t e X L III. — F ig . 5 - 8 .
P E L L Æ A B R EW E R I , D . C . E a t o n .
Brewer’s Cliff-Brake.
P e l l æ a B r e w e r i : — R o o t-sto ck ascendin g , sho rt, stout,
v e r y c h a ffy w ith n a r row lin e a r-a cum in a te fu lv o u s s c a le s ; s ta lk s
crowded, tw o to fo u r inches lon g , te rete , v e r y fra g ile , bright-
brown, ch a ffy o n ly at the b a s e ; fro n d s a s lo n g as the s ta lk s ,
o b lon g , p in n a te ; p innæ s ix to tw e lv e p airs, short-petioled,
m emb ran aceous, h a lf to three -fourths o f an inch long, m o s t ly
two parted, the u p p e r lob e la r g e s t ; lob es and s im p le u pp er
p innæ o v a te o r tr ia n g u la r -o v a te , cu n e a te and often su E c o rd a te
a t the b a s e ; v e in s free, c u r v in g ou tw a rd s, tw ic e o r thrice
fo rked ; sp o ran g ia a t the ends o f the v e in s , co v e red b y a del-
ic a te con tin u ou s invo luc re .
Pellæa Breweri, E a ton , in Proceed. Amer. Acad., vi, p. 55 5; Botany of
U. S. Geol. Expl. of 40th Parallel, p. 395, t. xl, fig. 17 .—
H o o k e r & B a k e r , Syn. Fil., p. 145,
Hab.— Common in the clefts of exposed rocks in the higher canons
of the Sierra of California, and thence eastward to the East Humboldt
Mountains and the Wahsatch; also found near Loma in Colorado,
near the Rio Grande. First collected in 1863 by Professor W. H.
B r ew e r near Sonora Pass, at 7,000 to 8,000 feet elevation, and afterwards
in Ebbett’s Pass at the same altitude. Mono Pass, at 9,000 to
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