CHEILANTHES. 



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Sin. long, about lin. broad, bi- or tripinnatiiid (twice or three times divided 

 half-way to the midrib), and borne on thin, wiry stalks lin. to Sin. long 

 and densely clothed with narrow, reddish-brown 

 scales. The leaflets, of a somewhat leathery texture 

 and deltoid (in form of the Greek delta, A), are 

 about Jin. long, Jin. broad, opposite, and cut 

 down to the rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) 

 below into several pinnatifid, linear-oblong lobes. 

 The small and numerous sori (spore masses) are 

 covered by light brown involucres of a parchment- 

 like texture, and toothed all round. Fig. 9 is 

 reduced from Col. Beddome's " Ferns of British 

 India " by the kind permission of the author. — 

 Hooker^ Species Filicum, ii., p. 81. Nicholson, 

 Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 308. Lotve, Ferns 

 British and Exotic, iv., t. 17b. Beddome, Ferns 

 of British India, t. 238. 



C. frigida — fri'-gid-a (frigid). Synonymous with 

 C. lendigera. 



Fig. 9. Cheilanthes fragrans 



(J nat. size). 



C. glandulosa — glan-dul-o'-sa (glandular), Swartz. 



A strong-growing, stove species, native of the province of Minas Geraes, 

 in Brazil. Its fronds, 2ft. or more long and quadripinnatifid (four times 

 divided half-way to the midrib), are peculiar through their fihform (thread- 

 like), flexuose (bending), hairy stalks of a somewhat climbing habit. Their 

 leaflets, 3in. long and curved upwards, are shortly stalked and di^dded into 

 spear-shaped, unequal-sided, and stalkless pinnules (leafits), which are again 

 cut into narrow, wedge-shaped segments with ligulate (strap -shaped) lobes. 

 The abundant spore masses are very mmute, — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p, 475, 



C. gracilis — grac'-il-is (slender). Synonymous with C. lanuginosa. 



C. (Physapteris) gracillima — Phy-sap'-ter-is ; grac-ir-hm-a (A-ery slender), 

 Eaton. 



This very pretty species, which somewhat resembles the better-known 

 C. lanuginosa, though its much less hairy and less divided fronds have larger 



