100 CHEILANTHES VESTITA.— HAIRY LIP-FERN, 
Denslow, and from thence through New Jersey to Illinois and 
southwards; and Professor Eaton in his “Ferns of North Amer- 
’ adds to this “Missouri and Kansas, and southward to Caro- 
lina and Georgia.” Of special locations Professor Eaton quotes 
Hackensack Swamp, New Jersey, discovered by Mr. F. J. Bum- 
stead, in 1865. Dr. Chapman, on the authority of Professor 
Kunze, of Leipsic, gives near Augusta, Georgia; and Dr. Kunze 
himself, as quoted in volume 6 of “Silliman’s Journal,’ new 
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series, says, “it is evidently common in the southern states.” 
Dr. Engelmann, in the same volume, remarks that he “had col- 
lected it on the calcareous rocks about the Hot Springs of Ar- 
kansas ae and Dr. Darlington says in “Flora Cestrica,” that it is 
very common on rocks in Chester county, Pa. In Kentucky, 
Mr. Williamson says, it is rather rare, and gives Sweet Lick 
Knob, near Irvine, found by Dr. Crozier; and near the boundary 
between Edmonson and Barren counties, near the Diamond 
Cave, by Professor Hussey, as special locations. 
Professor Eaton furnishes several synonyms under which it 
has been known, but, except perhaps ddvantum vestitum of 
Sprengel, there are none beyond those already noted likely to 
be met with by our readers. 
EXPLANATIONS OF THE PLATE.—1. A full-sized plant from a living specimen, furnished by Mr. 
Jackson Dawson. 2. Enlarged views of portions of. the frond, showing the recurved lip- 
like margin. 
