TAB. CLI. 
CHEILANTHES SQUAMOSA. 
FILICES.—GvmnaATz. Br.  Porvropracrsm. Kaulf. | Frirricrs verc. Willd. 
N 
Gzw. CHag. CHEILAN'TTHES, Sw. Sori marginales, punctiformes; capsulis sinu involucri 
insertis. Znvolucrum marginale, interius liberum, scariosum, v. 
e crenula ipsius marginis 
replicata formatum. 2. 
CHEILANTHES squamosa ; fronde ovato-lanceolata bipinnata, pinnulis oblongo-ovatis obtusis sinuato- 
lobatis, subtus rachi stipiteque densissime squamosis, soris subcontinuis. 
Cheilanthes squamosa. | Gi//ies, MSS. 
Has. In rupibus apud * Cerro del Morro, San Luis," provincia Bonarie. JJ. Gillies, M. D. 
Fadiz, ut videtur, czespitosa, e fibris descendentibus, fuscis, ramosis. 
Stipites plurimi ex eodem puncto, biunciales, erecti, dense paleaceo-squamosi, squamis 
patentibus vel subsquar- 
rosis. 
Frondes digitales, circumscriptione ovato-lanceolate, bipinnatz, pinnis primariis lanceolatis, patentibus, sesqui- 
uncialibus, pinnulis brevissime petiolatis, ovatis seu oblongis, basi truncatis, sinuato-lobatis, 
subcoriaceis, 
supra intense viridibus, glabris, nudis, 
subtus rachique ubique paleis ovato-acuminatis membranaceis reticu- 
latis ciliato-dentatis subpeltatis squamosis. 
Sori marginales, subcontinui, tenues, squamis omnino tecti. 
Involucrum tenue, e margine inflexo pinnule, subcontinuum, sinuatum. 
Capsulce globosee, annulo lato incompleto cinctee, vix pedicellatze. 
Semina ovali-globosa, subangulata, opaca, flavo-viridia. 
Fig. 1. Pinnule, squamis in partem denudate. f 2. Portiosori. f 3. Squama. f.4. Capsula. 
magn. auct. 
f. 5. Semina :— 
We can find no description of any Cheilanthes which at all accords with this very handsome 
species. Hence we have much pleasure in adopting the appropriate name given to it by its 
discoverer. 
