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Pinna of mature Frond— under side, 



CHEILANTHES TENUIS. 



Presl. Hooker. Moore and Houlston. Leibmann. 



PLATE XXIII. VOL. IV. 



Cheilanthes — From the Greek; a lip, and a flower. 



Tenuis — Slender. 



A PRETTY dwarf species, rare in cultivation. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Mexico. 



The fronds are ovate-lanceolate in form, and tripinnate, the 

 pinnules being oblong; segments minute, somewhat circular, 

 with a wedge-shaped base, crenate, reflexed, and concave. 



Frond woolly, terminal, and adherent to a creeping rhizoma. 



Sori linear, composed of a single row of spore-cases, and 

 in some degree hid in the axis of the broad reflexed margin 

 of each segment. Indusium linear and continuous. 



Length of frond twelve inches. 



For fronds I am indebted to Mr. Joseph Henderson, of 

 Wentworth. 



It is in the Catalogues of Messrs. A. Henderson, of Pine- 

 apple Place, and E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood. 



The frond illustrated was sent by Mr. Joseph Henderson. 



