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C H E IL A N T H E S C A L IFO RN IC A , M e t t e n iu s .
Californian L ip -F e rn .
C h e i l a n t h e s C a l i f o r n i c a ; — Stalks densely tufted, dark
brown, glossy, four to eight inches long ; frond somewhat shorter,
smooth and green on both surfaces, broadly deltoid-ovate, delicately
quadripinnatifid, — i.e., the upper portion of the main rachis
and all its divisions with a narrow herbaceous wing or border;
lowest pinnæ much the largest, triangular-ovate, more developed
on the lower side; upper pinnæ gradually smaller and simpler;
ultimate pinnules lanceolate, very acute, incised or serrate, and,
when fruiting, with usually separate crescent-shaped membranaceous
involucres in the sinuses between the teeth, w'hich also are
often at length recurved.
Ckeilanihes Californica, M e t t e n iu s , über Cheilanthes, p. 44.
Hypokpis Californica, H o o k e r , Sp. P'il., ii., p. 71, t. 88, A .— H o o k e r &
B a k e r , Syn. Fil., p. 13 1.
Aspidotis Californica, N u t t a l l , MS. in herb. Hook.— H ook., Sp. F il, 1. c.
H a b . — In moist and shady ravines and canons; known only from the
coast ranges of the southern part of California, and from Sonora in Mexico.
D e s c r i p t io n . — Root-stocks short, creeping, very chaffy, with
rather rigid, narrow, dark-brown scales; stalks chestnut-brown,
smooth and shining, usually about six to eight inches long, and