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paleaceous), ihc more oval pinnules, but above all the distinct and rather 

 broad membranaceous margin to the involucres. All the characters of our 

 American specimens exist etiually in the Affghanistan ones.— As Mr. Lam- 

 bert, I believe, possessed a full collection of Mr. Bradbury's plants from the 

 Missouri, I cannot help expressing a suspicion that the specimen he gave 

 me as from " Mr. Wiles, Jamaica,'' is a Missourian one. 



41. Ch. Szoviizii, Fisch. et Mey. ; roots densely tufted from 

 a short thick caudex, stipites crowded 2—4 inches long slen- 

 der and as well as the principal rachises ebeneous somewhat 

 hairy mixed with copious long spreading subulate scales, 

 fronds 3 — 4 inches long oblong-lanceolate quite glabrous 

 above densely woolly and generally tawny beneath tri-sub- 

 quadripinnate, primary pinnae ovate acuminate approximate 

 or distant, pinnules small subrotund or subcordate sublobate, 

 terminal ones often larger and oblong, the margin revolute 

 forming nearly a continuous involucre the edges obscurely 

 membranaceous. Fisch. et Meyer, in Hohenacker, En. PL 

 Prov. Talijsch,p. 11. — a. niidiuscula ; woolly covering short 

 and entirely confined to the underside of the pinnules. (Tab. 

 XCIV. B.) Cheilanthes suaveolens, ^., fronde subtus villoso- 

 hirsuta, Hoheiiacker, in Herb, nostr. — &. Stocksii ; woolly 

 covering of the under-side of the frond exceedingly dense 

 tawny, so copious and spreading as at first sight apparently 

 to invest the whole frond. 



Hab. a. Rocks near the fort of Schuscha, in Talysch, province of Kara- 

 bagh, Caucasian Alps, Honenacker. Crevices of rocks, Pushut, Kooner- 

 Kafanistan, in Affghanistan, Griffith, n.U, in Herb, nostr. Indus valley, 

 7,500 feet ; rocks, Kashmir ; and in Western Tibet, 8,500 feet. Dr. T. 

 Thomson. — /3. Chihil Tun, Scinde, Dr. Stocks, n. 1020, in Herb, nostr. 

 Affghanistan, with a., Griffith. Iskardo, valley of the Indus, 7,000 feet. 

 Dr. T. Thomson. — So closely does this Cheilanthes resemble in habit and 

 ramification and woolliness the North American Ch. vestita, that notwith- 

 standing the respective countries are so widely apart, I was disposed to con- 

 sider it at first a local variety of that species : but when in conjunction with 

 the different locality I find that our oriental specimens, gathered in several 

 regions, have the upper side of the frond invariably glabrous (however densely 

 woolly the under side may be), and that there are always copious scales 

 mixed with the hairs on the stipes and rachises, I consider it safer to keep 

 them distinct: and our Tab. XCIV. B. exhibits a faithful representation 

 of the less woolly state originally found by Hohenacker, and obligingly com- 

 municated to me many years ago by its discoverer, under the name of Ch. 

 suaveolens (meaning out frag rans) ^., frondibus subtus villoso-hirsutis. The 

 size and ramification do indeed considerably resemble that species : but 

 the vestiture and involucres are quite different. 



42. Ch. vestita, Sw. .? roots tufted, stipites 3 — 4 inches long 

 slightly scaly at the base flexuosc and as well as the main ra- 

 chis ebeneous and laxly woolly, fronds about as long as the 



