Chcilaatkts. FILIUES. 



.U-Itoul-ovate, dcl.ai ely quadnpinnatifid ; the upper portion of the n.ain rl.acl.is and 



... ngularovate more developed on tl.o lower side; upper pinnae gradually ma Uer 

 u.d suapler; ultnuate pinnules lanceolate, very acuti, i. cised or sern ^ Xn 

 i.'n.t.ng w.th mostly se,.arate crescent-shaped membranaceous invoh c fn t e 

 m.ses between the teeth, which are often\at length recurved. -ctlutes 44 • 



veines but scarcely/ contmuous all round the syjment semiients not 

 bead-like. — Euciieilantiies, Hooker & Uaker. ^f^J>nent, not 



or ?■] ^L- T'^^'f ^; ^'^venport. Stalks tufted, 3 to 5 inches high, wiry, dark-brown 

 or blackish and shining, chalfy at the base with narrow bright- ernu.i nous crisne 



cales : fronds herbaceous, minutely glandular and everywhere visci<l,^ to sTX 

 long narrowly oblong in outliue, pinnate with 4 to 8 rather distant ,air of n a ly 



ess.le deltoid bipinnatdid pinnae 5 to 8 lines long and nearly as broad • 4"n ent^ 

 toothed, the minute herbaceous teeth recurved and each covering from i o°3 spo 



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l..ig.l.., ha.y like he Irond with entangle.l or straightish nearly white articulated 



nat? fl rr^Ul':': r''r''V '■ ""'-^ V;^ ' ^"^'"-^ '"■- ^^-'^^^ «^ ovatVlanceoIate, bl !i^ ! 



...te, the lather distant pun.e oblung-ovate ; pinnules roundish-ovate, crenate or 



lately incised, the ends of the lobules redexed and forming herbaceous invo- 



' loH,'?i'''';f ''. r"' ^t^yr'""''' ^^"^'^'"'"-^ '^^'t -' maturity. -Torr. Bot. 

 l.ulletin, VI. 33, and lerns ot N. Amer. i. 7, t. 2, lig. I. 



Clefts of rocks in canons nnd on tin; si,l,-s of nioi.nluins ; ne.ir Santa Hailvua ( m-o Fhmnrt 



itv^dSrs!:::e^;r;;j:;2;:oi-;i::';i;;!t!''^ ^"^^-^-S 



§ 3. ^/7^-w«^e sefjmetifs minute, bead-like ; involucre umalh, continuous all round 

 the m.ar;/ui: fronds 2-A-pinnafe, the lower surface tomentose or seal,,, 

 the covering at first udiite, often becoming taunn/ us the fronds mature — 

 PilYSAPTERis, Presl. {i\fyriopteris, Fee.) 



* Ultimate segments tomentose beneath, but not scali/. 

 4. C. graciUima, Eaton. Jtootstocks creeping and assurgent, forming a dense 

 entangled mass, chalfy with narrow rigi.l dark-brown appressed scales: stalks slen- 

 der dark-brown : fronds 1 to 4 inches long, linear-oblong, bipinnate or sometimes 

 partly tnpinnato ; primary and s(>condaiy rhachises bearing delicatt^ narrow bri-d.t- 

 brown scales, as do the stalks when young ; pinn;e many pairs, crowded 3 to G 

 lines long; ultimate i)inmiles crowded, oblong-oval, ^ to 1 line long, at first webby 

 above, soon smooth, beneath heavily covered with ferruginous malted wool; invo- 

 lucres yellowish-brown, formed of the continuously recurved margin. — JJot. Mex 



