Pkte LXXIX.
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ü HEILANTHE .6 FENDLERI . U.- - X.
Z H.EILAKTHE 3 ERAaiLINMA, llalli-
P l a t e L X X IX . -F ig . 1-7.
C H E IL A N T H E S F E N D L E R I , H o o k e r .
F e n d le r ’s L ip -fe rn .
C h e i l a n t h e s F e n d l e r i : — Root-stock creeping, very slender
and cord-like, covered with delicate bright-brown ovate-
lanceolate scales nearly destitute of midnerve; stalks dark-
brown, mostly scattered, two to five inches long, chaffy at the
base like the root-stock, but upwards with very narrow pale-
brown scales ; fronds ovate-lanceolate, three to six inches long,
tripinnate ; scales of the primary rachis like those of the stalk,
those of the secondary and tertiary rachises larger, broadly
ovate, entire or nearly so, bright-brown but white-margined,
imbricated and overlapping the very minute bead-like rounded
and entire or obovate and 2-3 lobed, more or less crowded
ultimate segments; these are naked above, and beneath commonly
bear at their centre a single broad scale; herbaceous
involucre formed of the much recurved outer margin.
Cheilanthes Fendleri, H o o k e r , Sp. Fil., ii., p. 103, t. cvii., B.— E aton,
in Bot. Mex. Boundary, p. 234.— H o o k e r & B a k e r , Syn. Fil.,
p. 139.— P 0 R T E R & C o u l t e r , Syn. PI. Colorado, p. 15 3 .—E a ton ,
Ferns of the South-West, p. 3 15 (excluding California plants).
Myriopteris Fendleri, F o u r n ie r , PI. Mex., Crypt., p. 125.
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