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faces scantily clothed with a coarse the largest, cut nearlv to rachis- rachis 



tomentum; pinnae alt, oblong-ovate, ob- polished like stipe upper siTrfacP ntkert 



tuse, lowermost somewhat distant; segs lower thickly covered with w 



roundish, terminal ones largest, 3-lobed; sori num very s mill Alk <= 



Sporangia on back or near ends 



& 



rachis like those of stipe, those of sec- species 



. Br. APP 



dged with w imbricate and overlapping Parsley fern. Stipes denselv tufted 



the (one-fourth to one-third line broad) stramineous; fronds dimorphous sterile 



subglobose ultimate segs: these are ones on shorter stalks 3-4-plnnafifiIl 



naked above, com bear at center a broad with toothed or incised segs ferUle ones 



scale; mdusium formed of the much in- long-stalked, less compound, with ? na 



HES OLFV^T^rfnT ** ff wly elli P tical or oblong-linear pod- 



CLEVELAND! Eaton, like ses. Alk, Mackenzie south to Cal; 



Stipes scattered, 2-6' long, dark brown. 

 scaly when young, at length nearly rostichoides Spreng 



Bot Jahr 



yous brown below from the dense cover- stipes scattered, slender, 2-3' long, 



mg of closely imbricate, ciliate scales stramineous or pale brown- fronds ->-4 ! 



growing on the ultimate segs as well as long, 1-2' broad, ovate, 2-3-pinnatifid- 



on the rachises; segs nearly round, l-3d pinnae lanceolate! deltoid, cut to rachis 



to %' broad, terminal ones larger, mar- i nto a few broad, blunt slightly-lobed 



gin narrowly incurved. Named in honor pinnules; texture thinly herbaceous 



csSfthlfi, ]trf el n ?- n r* flaccid; indusium broad, continuous 



Southern and Baja California. membranous; veins of fertile fronds 



seal surfa ce both tomentose and mostly only once-forked. Labrador; Alk; 



1 ELEGANS Kuhn Beitr 8. B 2:338 as ^y'nonymsf pSris^tellerl S. G. Gamel 



myriophylla. "Nov Comm Ac Soi Pptrnn 19-siq t 19 * i 



CHEILANTHES MTRIOPHYLLA Desv. (1768) Pellaea stelleri Watt : Can Fll 



B 2:338. Z 2:131. Br 1:205 Cruz; 218 No 2 \1869-70?.-PteHs graciiis Michx 



Fl Bor Am 2:262 (1803). Pellaea gra- 



Rtstock very short, scaly; stipes cilis Hooker, sp Fil 2:138 t 133 B (1858) 



tufted, 2-6' hi castaneous covered with Allosurus crispus stelleri Milde A. 



pale brown scales and woolly hairs inter- graciiis Presl 



mixed; fronds 3-8' long, oblong-lanceo- ^^^ ' UITIITAU'A i ti, 



late, 3-4-pinnatifid, smooth or pilose Gnus PELLAEA Link. 



above, beneath matted-tomentose and Link, Fil Sp Hort Berol 59 (1841). 



densely clothed with pale brown, nar- Sori on the upper part of veins dis- 



rowly ovate-lanceolate, ciliate scales, tinct, or mostly forming a marginal 



those of ultimate segs with long, tortu- band of sporangia; sterile and fertile 



ous cilia; pinnae deltoid-ovate, narrower fronds com similar, smooth. Over 50 



upwards; ultimate seers minute, V," species. 



broad, crowded, inumerable, margin un- Section CHElJjOPIiECTOlT Fee. Tex- 



changed. much incurved; very variable, ture herbaceous or subcoriaceous, veins 



Synonyms: C. elegans Desv. C. villosa clearly visible, indusium broad, in most 



Dav. of the species rolled over the sorus tilt 



Texas; Arizona; southern and Baja Cal. maturity. 



C. XiINDHEXMZBX Hooker. P. BSSWSBI D. C. Eaton. 



Rtstock long, slender, chaffy, stipes Stipes densely tufted, covered with 



scattered, 4-7' hi, bk'ish-brown, at first narrow, crisped, fulvous chaff; fronds 



covered with scales and woolly hairs; 2-6' long, simply pinnate, pinnae short- 



fronds 3-5' long, ovate-lanceolate, 3-4- stalked, 6-8 pairs, membranous, mostly 



pinnate; ultimate segs 14" long, crowd- 2-parted, upper seg larger; segs obtuse, 



ed; upper surface w-tomentose, lower in fertile frond narrower; indusium con- 



rurface very chaffy, those of midrib cil- tinuous. pale; veins repeatedly forked. 



iate at base, those of segs more and Colo; Cal. 



more ciliate, passing into entangled to- Section ALIiOSORUS Baker. Texture 



mentum. Tex: ,\r. coriaceous, veins not perceptible; indus- 



Section AIiETJFITOFTSRIS Fee. In- ium broad, conspicuous. 



dusia more or les confluent; fronds fari- *Pinnules or segs obtuse or barely 



nose below. acute. 



C. ARG-ENTEA Kunze. I. Fronds pinnate or bipinnate. 



Stipes densely tufted, 3-6' long, cas- P. ATEOPTJEPUESA Link. 



taneous: fronds 3-4' long, 2' broad, del- Stipes tufted, 2-6' long, dark p; fronds 



toid, 2-3-pinnatifid; lower pinnae much 4-12' long, 2-6' broad, lanceolate or 



