312 I'LAXT I, IKK OF ALAMAMA. 



KAMTrHATKA, .TaPAN, ("IIIXA, Ill.MALAYAX IN'PIA. 



Horoal le^ioii to ('aroliiiiiiii area. No\v(oiiii<llan(l. < Mitario to Mritisli Colin. ibia, 

 Vancouver Island, New Kiijilaiid to Now Joibov. < 'hio Xallt-y to Missouri, Arkansas, 

 and south along tlin mountains to (loorgia. 



Ai.ahama: Mountain re;;ion. K'ich shady woods. \\inst<in County, CoilicTsCreok, 

 1,5(K) f«>i't (T. M. I'eterH). D.-kalb County, l-ookout Mountain, "l,(](»0 feet. Clay 

 C<ninty, I'.ineiHons (iap, 1,)^00 lout. Cullman County, 8tM) let-t. 



Tyjir locality: •Halt, in C.-iuada, A'irginia." 



Heib, (ii'ol. Surv. Ih'rl). Mohr. 



PTERIS L. Sp. I'1.2: kit:;. 17.'):!. liUAKi; Ki;i:n. 



Ahout 103 species, mostly tropical, cosmopolitan. North America, ."> species. 

 Pteris aqxiilina L. Sp. ri, 2 : 1(»75. IToli, Co.m.mox Bhacken. Ea^lk I'kux. 



Cray, Man.ed. (J, DiSl. Chap. Fl.SSJ). Wats. Hot. CaliT. 2::)11. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 

 1 : 263, t. o.'i. Coulter, Contr, Nut. Herb. 2 : 564. Underwood, Native Ferns, 91. 



Cosmopolitan. 



Canadian zone to Louisianian area. Throughout the continent to Mexico. 



Ai.ahama : Over the State. In sterile open woodlands, abundant everywhere. 



Tyjte locality: ''Hab. in Europae sylvis, praesertim catduis." 



Herb. Geol. iSnrv. Herli Mohr. 



Pteris aqiiilina pseudocaudata Clute, Fern Bull. 8 : 39. 1900. 



Carolinian iind Louisianian areas. Long Island, New .Jersey, and Maryland lo 

 Florida and Texas along the coast. (Clute.) 



Alabama: Central I'lairie belt to Coast ])lain. Sandy shadeil banks and thickets. 

 Mobile County, frequent. 



Type localitj': ''Abundant in the 'pine barrens,' Babylon, Long Island." 



Pteris serrulata L. f. Snppl. 425. 1781. Chinese Bkake. 



Chap. Fl. Suppl. 669. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 2:239, t. 28, f. 5. Underwood, Native 

 Ferns, 91. 



Tropical Asia. 



Louisianian area. South Carolina and (ieorgia. Probably introduced. 



Alabama: Coast plain. Shaded banks of brooklets. Mobile County, lirst 

 observed In 1870. Since spreading along the banks of water courses and ditches, 

 and on old walls. July. 



Type locality not ascertained. 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



CHEILANTHES Sw. Syn. Fil. 126. 1806. Lip Fkrx. 



Over 60 species, temperate and warmer regions. Mexico, South America; North 



America, chielly in the arid table-lands west of the Mississippi. 



Cheilanthes alabamensis (Buckl.) Kuntze, Liunaea, 20:2.34. 1847. 



Alabam.v Lip Fekn. 



Pteris alahamensis Buckl. Am. Jonrn. Sci. 45 : 177. 1843. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 681. Chap. Fl. .590. Eaton, Ferns N. A. 2 : 89, t. 57, f. 7. Coulter, 

 Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 565. Underwood, Native Ferns, 93. 



Carolinian area. Central Kentucky to the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, 

 and western Texas. 



Alabama: Tennessee Valley to Lower hills. Lauderdale County, near Florence, 

 rocky banks of Cypress Creek. Winston County, sandstone clitl's on Sipsey fork, 

 1,200 feet. Etowah County, Black Creek Falls, 1,200 feet. Bibb County, 'Pratt's 

 Ferry, on limestone rock (E. A. Smith). 



Type locality: "Grows in tufts on limestone rocks, that form the banks of the 

 Tennessee River, at the foot of the Muscle Shoals, Alabama." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Cheilanthes lanosa (Michx.) AVatt, Trimen's.lourn. Bot. 12 : 48. 1847. 



Woolly Lip Fern. 



Xephrndium lanosum Michx. Fl, Bor. Am. 2 : 270. 1803. 



Cheilanthes vestita Sw. Syn. Fil. 128. 1806. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 681. Chap. Fl. 590, Eaton, Ferns N. A. 1 : 13, <.^./. ,?. Under- 

 wood, Native Ferns, 93. 



Alleghenian and Carolinian areas. British Columbia, northwest coast, to east- 

 ern base of the Rocky Mountains, southeast Xew York west to Kentucky, Illinois, 

 southern Missouri, Arkansas, and Colorado, and south to Tennessee and North 

 Carolina. 



