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CHEILANTHES, 



ChEILANTHES ARGENTEA. (Hook,) Glabrous glossy brown, a little scaly below, caudex short, thick, creeping, stipites 

 tufted, frond cordately 5 angled tripartite white and pulverulent beneath, each of the three primary divisions pinnatifid, at their base 

 bipinnatifid, the margin crenated, involucres membranaceous brown confluent transversely waved and crenated. — Hooh Sp. Fil. 1 p, 76 « 

 Pteris argentea, Gmel in Nova. Acta. Petrop. xii. t 12/, 2; Allosorus, Presl ; Cassebeera, /. gm. ;— Pteris pedata, var, Linn. 



The specimen figured is from Burmah, (Parish.) 



Hab, Burmah, Siberia, Kamtschatka, Dahuria, Lake Baikal. 



PLATE No, CXLIIL 



