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position of the frond, abundance or scantiness of the pubescence,
continuity of the involucres, etc. While Hooker &
Baker have, as I think, judiciously united several species of
the older authors, it should be noticed that Fournier recognizes
three species, C. elongata, C. Moritziana and C. micro-
phylla.
Since the Rev. Charles Plumier, a Franciscan who visited
the West Indies nearly two centuries ago, and published
several magnificent folios on their botany, was the first to
notice this fern, it is proper that the English name assigned
to it should commemorate his discovery.
Plate LVII., Fig. 1 - 3 .— Cheilanthes microphylla, from specimens
collected in Florida by Mr. A. H. Curtiss. Fig. 2 is an enlarged pinnule,
and Fig. 3, a spore.
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P l a t e LVII. — F ig . 4-6.
C H E IL A N T H E S W R IC H T I I , H o o k e r .
Wright’s Lip-Fern.
C h e i l a n t h e s W r i g h t i i ; — Root-stock slender, creeping
chaffy with very narrow acuminate brownish scales; stalks
one to three inches high, slender, chestnut-brown, slightly
chaffy at the base ; fronds two to three inches long, ovate-
oblong, herbaceous, smooth, pinnate with about five pairs of
deltoid-ovate bipinnatifid pinnæ, the lowær ones rather distant;
pinnules oblong, more or less decurrent, pinnately incised, the
upper ones confluent; involucres mostly terminal on the ultimate
segments, scarcely altered from the texture of the frond.
Cheilanthes Wrightii, H o o k e r , S p . Fil., ii., p. 87, t. e x ., A.— H o o ker
& B a k e r , Syn. Fil., p. 138.— E a to n , P'erns of the South-West,
p. 3 1 0 .
H a b .— Between Western Texas and New Mexico, C. W r ig h t , Nos.
823 and 2128. Arizona, in the Chiricahua Mountains, near Camp Grant,
and in the Sanoita Valley, Dr. J. T. R oth ro c k . Mrs. A. T. S m ith also
collected it near Camp Grant in 1877. The collectors of the Mexican
Boundary Survey obtained it somèwhere near the Gila, but no one has
recorded the nature of the place where he found it. It most probably
grows in the crevices of rocks.
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