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nearly throughout the State. It is often found in very 
arid situations and usually, but not always, it grows on 
limestone, frequently in crevices of vertical or overhang- 
ing cliffs. 
14. CuHerLaAnTHES Eatont Baker. This unattractive 
fern has been collected in nearly all the mountain ranges 
in the State, except those in the northwest corner. In 
the Organ and Dona Ana Mountains it is found in arid 
situations at an altitude of not more than 6000 feet, 
but on San Mateo Peak and Hillsboro Peak it extends 
-up to 9000 feet. It is probably more often met than 
any other species in the drier mountains of the State. 
15. CHEILANTHES FeNDLERI Hook. Frequent in most 
of the mountain ranges, extending up to 9000 feet in 
places. The type was collected by Fendler in 1847, 
somewhere about Santa Fe. 
16. CHEILANTHES MYRIOPHYLLA Desy. Of local dis- 
tribution, known only from the Black Range, Big Hat- 
chet Mountains, the south end of the Organ Mountains, 
and the Sacramento Mountains, near Alamogordo 
(Ferriss). On Bishops Cap in the Organ Mountains 
it grows on limestone, in a very arid environment. 
17, CHEILANTHES LinpDHEIMERI Hook. Burro Moun- 
tains, Telegraph Mountains, Carlisle, Tres Hermanas, 
Florida Mountains, and Organ Mountains, at low alti- 
tudes. In the Organ Mountains it is very abundant, 
in the shade of granitic cliffs. It is perhaps our hand- 
somest species of the genus because of the broad fronds 
of a rather peculiar color. Usually it grows in large 
colonies, the fronds standing perfectly erect. 
PELLAEA INTERMEDIA Mett. Burro Mountains, 
Black Range, Tortugas Mountain, and the San Andreas 
and Organ Mountains. This is another fern of arid 
situations, growing usually on limestone. It is not as 
common as the number of localities might seem to sug- 
gest, never appearing very abundantly at any one station. 
