CHEILANTHES CIBOTITIH. 



winter. It, as well as some others of the kind, should then 

 only receive enough water to keep it alive. The frond is 

 thrice-pinnated, about a foot long. The pinnules are long and 

 sharp-pointed, slightly turned upwards at the edges. The 

 stalks are brown and scaly a rare circumstance in this genus. 

 Increases readily by division of the creeping rhizome. 



C. VISCOSA (Clammy), Fig. 12. This Fern is a native of 

 Mexico. Fronds about a foot high, 

 light green, covered with clammy 

 glandulous hairs. The accompany- 

 ing woodcut, natural size, is a small 

 piece of a frond. 



For C. CUNEATA, C. FARINOSA, 

 C. INTEAMARGINALIS, C. PEDATA, 



C. KADI ATA, and other species, see 

 Cassebeera. 



There are several other kinds, 

 but it would occupy too much space 

 to describe them all at length. 

 They are all worth growing where 

 there is room enough ; where space 

 is limited it would be as well to 

 select from those above mentioned. 

 They all require the same care in 

 watering, and the same general treatment ; and they have all 

 finely-divided and elegant fronds : C. elegans, C. frigida, 

 C. glauca hirsuta, C. micropJiylla, C. multifida, C. myriopJiylla, 

 C. Preissiana, C. Sieberi, C. squamosa. Some other species 

 are enumerated under the greenhouse Ferns. 



Fig. 12. Cheilanthes viscosa. 



CIBOTIUM. 



One of the many genera taken from Aspidium, and so 

 named from Kebotion, a little box or chest, the form of the 

 seed-vessel. 



