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nate; primary and secondary pinnse ovate-oblong; pinnules distinct, round- 

 ish-obovate, £-§ a line long, terminal ones twice larger; the reflexed nar- 

 row margin forming a continuous pale membranaceous involucre. — HOrt. 

 Berol. ii, p. 42, and Fil. Sp. Hort. Berol. p. 66; Gray, Manual, ed. 2, p. 

 592, etc.; Baker, Syn. Fil. p. 140. C. Bradburii, Hooker, Sp. Fil. ii, p. 

 97, t. 109, B. 



North Carolina, chiefly on sandstone rooks in Buncombe Co. {Gray, Cariby, Bradley, etc.), and in 

 Eastern Tennessee. Manitou rocks, near Jefferson City, Missouri, Bradbury. Texas, Lindheimer, No. 743, 

 Drummond in Herb. Hook.! It probably occurs in New Mexico, as it certainly does in Mexico, whence the 

 plant was sent to the Royal Botanical Garden at Berlin many years ago. The Arizona plant under this 

 name in the Botany of the Mexican Boundary is the next species. Some of Prof. Bradley's fine speci- 

 mens are, with the stalks, nearly two feet high. 



Cheilanthes Eatoni, Baker. 



Stalks tufted, 3-8 inches long, brownish, wiry, covered, as is the rachis 

 and its branches, with very narrow pale-ferruginous scales ; frond 4-8 inches 

 long, oblong-lanceolate, tripinnate; lower pinna? rather distant, upper ones 

 crowded, ovate-oblong ; ultimate pinnules or segments contiguous, £ a line 

 long, rounded, but narrowed at the base, the terminal ones often twice 

 larger and more decidedly obovate ; upper surface gray-tomentose, under 

 surface with a heavy matted ferruginous tomentum ; involucres very nar- 

 row, hidden by the tomentum. — Syn. Fil. p. 140. C. tomentosa, Hooker, 

 Sp. Fil. ii, p. 96, in part, and t. 109, A. 



Western Texas and New Mexico, Wright, 816, Fendler, 1016. Indian Territory, Palmer, 427. Colo- 

 rado, near Canon City, Brandegee. Along the Gila and Colorado Rivers, Arizona, Collectors of Mexican 

 Boundary Survey. This species was. distinguished from C. tomentosa many years ago by Sir William 

 Hooker, who gave an excellent figure and description of each, but he unfortunately considered this one 

 to be C. tomentosa, and the true C. tomentosa he regarded as an undescribed species. The narrow 

 appressed scales of the stalks, etc., will serve to distinguish the present species from the last and from 

 C. lanuginosa. In average stature it is midway between the two, and it is more rigid than either. 



* * Frond covered beneath with imbricated scales, but not tomentose. 



Cheilanthes Fendleri, Hooker. 



Rootstock creeping, slender, covered with bright-brown delicate lanceo- 

 late crisped scales; stalks 2-5 inches long, chaffy with minute slender scales; 

 fronds ovate-lanceolate, 3-4 inches long, tripinnate; scales of the primary 

 rachis like those of the stalk, but those of the secondary and ultimate 

 rachises larger, broadly ovate, entire or nearly so, usually edged or tipped 

 with white, imbricated and overlapping the very minute (|-£ line broad) 



