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C H E IL A N T H E S TOM EN TO SA , L in k .
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C h e i l a n t h e s t o m e n t o s a : — Root-stock short, chaffy with
glossy subulate scales; stalks tufted, four to eight inches long,
erect, rather stout, clothed with soft woolly pale-ferruginous
hairs, intermixed with others which are flattened and decidedly
paleaceous; fronds eight to fifteen inches long, oblong-lanceolate,
webby-tomentose with slender brownish-white obscurely
articulated hairs, especially beneath, tripinnate; primary and
secondary pinnæ oblong or ovate-oblong; ultimate pinnules
closely placed, but distinct, roundish-obovate, sessile, or adnate
to the tertiary rachis, one-half to three-fourths of a line
long, the terminal ones twice longer; involucres whitish, continuous
round the pinnule and very narrow.
Cheilanthes tomentosa. L i n k , “ Hort. Berol., ii., p. 42.'’— Fil. Hort. Berol,,
p. 65. — K u n z e , in Sill, journ., July, 1848, p. 87; in Linnæa,
xxiii., p. 24 5.— G r a y , Manual, ed. ii., p. 592 .- M e t t e n iu s , Fii.
Hort. Lips., p. 50; Cheilanthes, p. 37. — E a t o n , in Chapman’s
Flora, p. 590; Ferns of the South-West, p. 3 14 . — B a k e r ,
Syn. Fii., p. 140.— W il l ia m s o n , Ferns of Kentucky, p. 49,
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