CHEILANTHES. 



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and spread from the main stalk at right angles ; they are lin. to 3m. long, 

 and are cut down to the midrib into numerous pinnules (leafits) which 

 are scarcely more than Jin, long and agam pinnatifid and notched : their 

 margin is much incurved. The abundant sori (spore masses) are distinct and 

 of a bright reddish colour ; they are disposed all round the edge of each 

 segment of the fertile frond, and eventually become confluent. — Hooker^ Species 

 Filicum, ii., p. 92, t. 101b. Nicholson^ Dictionary of Gardening^ i., p. 308. 

 Lowe^ Ferns British and Exotic, iv., t. 18. 



Fi^. 10. Frond of Cheilanthes hirta 

 (nat. size). 



This species varies greatly in size and hairiness, the most distinct form 

 being the one generally found in gardens under the name of C. FUisiatia of 

 Moore, which has fronds much broader, more finely divided, and of a more 

 upright habit, than those of the typical plant. 



C. (Eucheilanthes) hispanica — Eu-cheil-anth'-es ; his-pa'-nic-a (Spanish), 

 Mettenius. 



A greenhouse species, native of Spain, and also found on rocks on 

 the banks of the Mondego, near Coimbra, in Portugal. Its fronds, only about 

 4in. long, includmg the wiry, naked, dark chestnut-brown stalks on which 

 they are borne, are deltoid (in the shape of the Greek delta. A), and have their 



