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C H E I L A N T H E S L IN D H E I M E R I , Ho ok-
F E R N S OF NO R TH AM E R IC A . 205
P l a t e LXX IV . — F ig . 1 - 4 .
P E L L Æ A A S P E R A , B ak er .
Rough Cliff-Brake.
Pe l læ a a s p e r a ; — Root-stock rather short, ascending,
chaffy with appressed linear-acuminate entire brown scales
mostly with a darker midnerve; stalks clustered, rather
slender, rigid, two to four inches long, black, but with a
pale-ash-colored scurfy pubescence ; fronds sub-coriaceous,
oblong-lanceolate, four to six inches long, bipinnate ; pinnæ
deltoid-ovate ; pinnules next the main rachis often somewhat
lobed, the rest oblong, slightly auriculate on one or both sides,
all of them having the upper surface roughened with harsh,
short, simple or forked whitish hairs ; involucre pale, continuous,
minutely crenulate-denticulate.
Pellæa aspera, B.a k e r , Syn. Fil., p. 14 8 . — E a ton , Ferns of th e South-
W e s t , p. 319.
Cheilanthes aspera, H o o k e r , Sp. FIL, ii., p. i n , t. cviii, A. — E a to n ,
in Bot. Mex, Boundary, p. 234.
H a b . — Texas and New Mexico. Near the Rio Grande, A. S chott.
Near the Santa Rita Copper mines and along the San Pedro, B ig e low .
First collected by C h a r l e s W r ig h t in 1849. L has not been collected
by any one in more than twenty years and is very rare in herbaria.
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