i
e:.
i *
h ’ ’
1 1 ,
%
: ^
>1
i li
‘ I
f! I1 f
1* s
i-i
fit
II: J
r
..1 ji
P l a t e X II. — F ig . 2.
C H E I L A N T H E S C L E V E L A N D I I , E a t o n .
C le v e lan d ’s L ip -F e rn .
C h e i l a n t h e s C l e v e l a n d i i : — R o o t -s to ck creeping, elon-
d, covered w ith n a rrow r ig id d a rk-brown s c a le s ; s ta lk s s ca ttered,
tw o to s ix inches long, ra ther rigid, d a rk-brown, s ca ly , but
at len gth ne ar ly sm o o th ; mature fronds fo u r to s ix inches long,
ovate-lanceolate, tripinnate dr quadripinnate, smooth and green
above, beneath d e ep -fu lvou s -b rown from the dense co v e r in g of
c lo se ly imbricated ovate -acumin a te e leg an tly ciliated sca les, which
g ro w from the ra ch ise s and the midribs, and from the under side
o f the ultima te s e gm e n t s ; segm en ts o th erwise naked, flattish,
n e a r ly round, sessile, one-third to on e-ha lf of a line broad, the
terminal ones a little larger, the m a rgin n a r row ly recurved, and
un ch an g ed in texture or color.
Cheilanthes Clevelandii, E aton,- in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club,
vi., p. 33 ; Ferns of the South-West, ined.
H a b . — Discovered in 1874 on a mountain about forty miles from San
Diego, California, at an elevation of about twenty-five hundred feet, by Mr.
D a n ie l C l e v e l a n d . Imperfect specimens of possibly the same thing were
collected in the San Bernardino Range, in 1875, by Dr. P a r r y .
D e s c r i p t io n .— R o o t -s to ck n e ar ly a s thick as a goose-quill,
sev e ra l inches long, covered w ith appressed rigid pointed nearly
H ’
lie
: ■(
. n -
1 1 1
!, ‘ . J I M j l
i
■
H i
k T d t I
m - i n i r i ^ l