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outline of the frond, and more decidedly in the glandular
and viscid surface, in the terete stalk, in the minuter involucres,
etc.
Plate LVII., Fig. 4-6.— Cheilanthes from Dr. Rothrock’s
Arizona specimens. Fig. 5 represents a secondary pinna or segment
enlarged about six diameters. Fig. 6 is a spore.
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P l a t e LVII. — F ig . 7 - 9 .
C H E IL A N T H E S A L A B AM EN S IS , K u n z e .
Alabama Lip-Fern.
C h e i l a n t h e s a l a b a m e n s i s : — Root-stock creeping, silky-
villous with very slender bright-brown scales; stalks three to
six inches high, wiry, terete, black and polished like the
rachises, at the base villous with soft ferruginous paleaceous
hairs, scantily hairy along the anterior side ; fronds lanceolate,
two to eight inches long, chartaceous, green and glabrous,
bipinnate; pinnæ very numerous, closely placed, ovate-lance-
olate, six to eighteen inches long, the lowest pair not enlarged;
pinnules adnate to the secondary rachis, mostly
triangular-oblong, rather acute, usually auriculate on the upper
side of the base, or the larger ones with several lobes
on each side; involucres rather broad, membranaceous, pale,
interrupted only by the incising of the pinnules.
Cheilmitkes Alabamensis, K u n z e , in Linnæa, x-x., p. 4, xxiii., p. 243;
Sillinian'.s Journal, July, 18 4 8 , p. 8 7 . — H o o k e r , Sp. Fil., ii.,
p. 8 9 , t. ciii., B ; Fil. Exot., t. xc.— M e t t e n iu s , Fil. Hort.
Lips., p. 5 0 ; Cheilanthes, p. 3 3 . —E.vrox,. in Chapman’s Flora,
p. 5 9 0 ; Ferns of the South-West, p. 3 1 1 . — D a v e n p o r t , Cat,
p . 12 .
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