174 FERNS : BK1T1SH AND FOREIGN. 



tose. Fronds 4-18 inches high, slender, decompound, pinnatifid, 

 pilose or piloso-squamiferous ; ultimate segments minute, gene- 

 rally orbicular or cuneiform, concave ; the margin membranous, 

 revolute, conniving, forming an universal cucullate indusium. 

 Veins forked, free. Receptacles terminal. Sporangia few to each 

 receptacle, confluent under the uniserial indusium. 



1. M. lendigera, Fee. Cheilanthes lendigera, Sw.; Hook. 



Sp. Fil, t. 106 A. Notholsena lendigera, J. Sm. Gen. 

 Fil. Cheilanthes tenuis, Sort.; Lowe's Fenis, 4, 

 t. 23. — Tropical America. T. 



2. M. myriophylla, J. Sm. Cheilanthes myriophylla, Desv. ; 



Hook. Sp. Fil. 1. 105 A— Tropical America. T. 



3. M. elegans, J. Sm. Cheilanthes elegans, Desv. ; Hook.Sp. 



Fil. 1. 105 B ; Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 20. Myriopteris 

 Marsupianthus, Fee, Gen. Fil. 1. 12 A, f. 1. — Tropical 

 America. T. 



4. M. tomentosa, Fee. Cheilanthes tomentosa, Link; Hook. 



Sp. Fil. t. 109 A.~ Mexico and Southern United 

 States. 



5. M. frigida, J. Sm. Cheilanthes frigida, Linden. Chei- 



lanthes lendigera, Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 24. — Tropical 

 America. T. 



6. M. vestita, /. Sm. Cheilanthes vcstita, Sto. ; Schlc. Fil. 



t. 124 ; Book. Sp. Fil. t. 108 B. NotholiBna vestita, 

 Desv. ; J. Sm. Gen. Fil. ; Lowe's Ferns, 1, t. 16 B. — 

 North America. T. 



7. M. hirta, /. Sm. Cheilanthes hirta, Sw. ; Hook. Sp. Fil. 



2, *. 101 B ; Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 18. Cheilanthes 

 Ellisir.na, ITort. — South Africa. 



88. CHEILANTHES, Sw. (in pari). 



Vernation fasciculate, erect or decumbent. Fronds bi-tri- 

 pinnate, rarely simple pinnate, 4-18 inches or more in height, 

 smooth, pilose, glandulose, squamose or farinose; ultimate seg- 

 ments often small. Veins forked, free. Receptacles terminal. 



