1 71 FERNS : BEITISH AND FOREIGN. 



tose. Fronds 4-18 inclies high, slender, decompound, piimatifid, 

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

 rally orbicular or cuneiform, concave ; the margin membranous, 

 levolute, conniving, forming an universal cncuUate indusium. 

 Feiws forked, free. iJecepfacZes terminal. Sjpo'fangiaiew to ea,ch 

 receptacle, confluent under the nniserial indusium. 



1. M. lendigera, Fee. Oheilanthea lendigera, Sw.; Sooh. 



Sp. Fil, t. 106 A. Notholaena lendigera, J. 8m. Gen. 

 Fil. Cheilanthes tenuis, Hort.; Lowe's Ferns, 4, 

 t. 23. — Tropical America. T. 



2. M. myrioph.yIla, /. Sm. Cheilanthes myriophyUa, Desv. ; 



Hook. Sp. Fil. t. 105 A. — ^Tropical America. T. 



3. M. elegans, /. 8m. Cheilanthes elegans, Desv. ; Sook. Sp. 



Fil. 1. 106 B ; Lowe's Ferns, 4, t. 20. Myriopteris 

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

 America. T. 



4. M. tomentosa, Fee. Cheilanthes tomentosa, Linh ,• Honh. 



Sp. Fil. t. 109 J..-^Mexico and Southern United 

 States. 



5. M. frigida, J. 8m. Cheilanthes frigida, Lmden. Chei- 



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

 America. T. 



6. M. vestita, /. 8m. Qheilanthes vestita, Sw. ; Schlc. Fil. 



t. 124 ; Hook. Sp. Fil. t. 108 B. Nothotena vestita, 

 Desv. ; J. 8m. Gen. Fil. ; Lowe's Ferns, 1, t. 16 B. — 

 ITorth America. T. 



7. M. hirta, J. Sm. Cheilanthes hirta, Sw. ; HooTc. 8p. Fil. 



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

 Ellisiana, Hoti. — South Afiica. 



88. CHEILANTHES, Sw. {in paH). 



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

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

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

 ments often small. Veins -forked, free. Eeceptacles terminal. 



