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This is the plant from La Cuesta, in New Mexico, which
was confused with the very similar Gymnogramme triangularis
in Pacif. R. Reports, IV., p. i6o. Some of the same
specimens, sent to Kew by Dr. Torrey, were attributed to
California in Species Filicum, either because of some error
in the label, or because La Cuesta was thought to be in
that state.
Plate X L IX ., Fig. 4-7 .— Noiholoena Hooksri. The principal figure
is drawn from a specimen collected near Camp Bowie, Arizona, by
Professor R o thro c k. The details are a segment, with a portion of the
same, more enlarged, and a spore.
P l a t e X L IX . — F ig . 8 - 1 i .
C H E IL A N T H L S LEUCOPODA, L in k .
W h ite -s ta lk ed L ip -fe rn .
C h e i l a n t h e s l e u c o p o d a : — Stalks three to six inches
long, pale straw-color, pubescent with white spreading hairs,
stout for the size of the frond, clustered on a short chaffy
root-stock, chaffy at the base with soft narrow rusty scales ;
fronds three to four inches long and broad, broadly deltoid or
somewhat pentagonal, at the base quadripinnate, gradually
simpler upwards, everywhere viscid-puberulent; lowest pair
of pinnæ unequally deltoid-ovate, the longest branches being
on the lower side; middle and upper pinnæ oblong-ovate;
secondary pinnæ oblong, short-stalked; ultimate ones divided
into minute rounded lobules, which when fertile are strongly
revolute, concealing the sporangia.
Cheilanthes leucopoda, L in k , P'il. Sp. Hort. Berol., p. 66. — M e t t e n iu s ,
Cheilanthes, p. 30. — F o u r n ie r , PI, Mex., Crypt., p. 12 3 .—
E a to n , Ferns of the South-West, p. 3 12 .
H a b . — Uvalde Cañón, Rio Nueces, Texas, Mrs. M. J. Y oun g , 1876.
Also found in Mexico.
D e s c r i p t i o n :^— This fern has much more compound
fronds than the other species represented on our Plate X L IX .
It comes very near the better-known C. viscosa, of Link, and
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