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C h e i l a n t h e s v i s c i d a : — Stalks tufted, three to five inches
high, wiry, dark-brown or blackish and shining, chaffy at the base
with narrow crisped bright-ferruginous scales ; fronds herbaceous,
minutely glandular and everywhere viscid, three to five inches
long, narrowly oblong in outline, pinnate, with four to six rather
distant pairs of nearly sessile deltoid bipinnatifid pinnæ five to
six lines wide and long; segments toothed; the minute herbaceous
teeth recurved, and each covering one to three sporangia.
Cheilanthes viscida, G eo r g e E . D a v en po r t , in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical
Club, v i ., p . 1 9 1 (December, 1 8 7 7 ) . — E aton , Ferns o f the
South-West, ined.
H a b . — At the White-water Cañón in the Colorado Desert, Arizona,
and at Downieville Buttes, California, L emmon ; and on the eastern slope
of the Sierra, near San Gorgorio Pass, California, P a r r y , L emmon .
D e s c r i p t io n . — The root-stock I have not seen ; but, as the
fronds seem to be tufted, it is probably very short, and heavily
covered with the same narrow crisped light-brown scales which
adhere to the base of the stalk. The stalks are very slender and
fragile, terete, very minutely striated, very dark-brown, and moderately
polished. The rachis and the upper part of the stalks are
slightly roughened, and bear minute sessile or short-stalked viscid
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