CHEILANTHIiS. 81 



(Pinntc and pinnules as in the preeeding (/roup, but densely clothed with 

 imbricated scales). 



8. Ch. squamosa, Gill. ; roots tufted, stipites 1 — 2 inches 

 long and as well as the general and partial rachis and costa 

 and pinnules beneath densely clothed with and concealed by 

 the copious large ovate acuminate ciliated membranaceous 

 ferruginous scales, fronds 4 — 5 inches long ovato-lanceolate 

 bipinnate subcoriaceous glabrous and naked above (fringed 

 with the scales beneath), ]>innules large oblong sinuato-lobate, 

 involucres submembranaceous narrow continuous. Gill, in 

 Hook, el Grev. Ic. Fil. tab. 151. 



Hab. Kocks, Cerro del Morro, San Luis, Argentine Republic, Dr. Gil- 

 lies. — A most distinct and well-marked species, which, as far as we know, 

 has never been detected by any botanist save Dr. Gillies. It has no natu- 

 ral affinity with the preceding broad-pinnuled species, nor has it any with 

 the scaly species allied to Ch. lendigera. 



(Fronds generally decompound, the pinnules small, glabrous or hairy or 

 scaly. — Eucheilanthes). 



9. Ch. fragrans, Webb et Bert. ; small, roots caespitose, 

 stipites short glossy deep brown bristly with deciduous subu- 

 late ferruginous scales, fronds glabrous ovato-lanceolate bipin- 

 nate or at the base sublripinnate, primary pinnaj broad-ovate 

 lower ones distant, pinnules (fructiferous) convex on both sides 

 oblong or ovate crenato-lobate, involucres copious small ap- 

 proximate one or more on each lobule their margin toothed or 

 crenate pale and membranaceous often confluent. — Webb et 

 Berth. Pliylogr. Canar. p. 453 (non Sw.) — Polypodium fra- 

 grans, Linn. Mant. 2, j). 307, (non Sp. PI. p. 1550). Desf. 

 Fl. All. ii. p. 408, t. 257. Pteris acrosticba, Balb.~Viex'\s 

 fragrans, Za^.— Adiantum fragrans, Viv. Cheilanthes odora, 

 Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 127 et 327. Schkuhr, Fil. p. 115, t. 123. 

 Ch. suaveolens, Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 127. Schkuhr, Fil. p. 116, 

 tab. 19, (Adiantum fragrans, on the plate). Sibih. Fl. Grcec. 

 t. 966. Ch. Maderensis, Loive, Nov. Fl. Mad. p. 6. 



Hab. Rocky places throughout the region of the Mediterranean. " Ci- 

 ves est hx'c planta'' says Mr. Webb, " orx- utriusque sinus ingentis Medi- 

 terranei, a Syria (Labillardiere) ad Hispaniam, unde per Lusitaniam et 

 Maderam Fortunatas attingit." Switzerland is perhaps its most northern 

 locality. Dr. Alexander finds it in Dalmatia. We have to add one very 

 distant locality, viz., Affghanistan, Mr. Griffith, n. 13, in herb, nostr. — The 

 student of Ferns is much indebted to Messrs. Webb and Berthelot for de- 

 termining the proper name and settling the synonymy of this sj)ecies in 

 their noble work on the Canary-island plants. They observe, " Linna;us 

 plautam nostram sul) nomine Po/ypodii fragrant is (M"ant. nov. Sp. Phmt.), 

 quam secum a Gallia communicavit doctus monachus Gabriel (cui Sco- 



