A Dictionary of Choice Ferns. 
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CHKlL,ASTHKS—co7itimied. 
C. chlorophylla. 
This stove species, native of South America, from New 
Granada southward to Monte Video, is a very handsome 
plant, and perhaps the most robust-growing of the section 
to which it belongs. Its somewhat spear-shaped and tripin- 
natifid fronds, 1ft. to IJft. long and 4in. to Gin. broad, 
produced from a stout, scaly rhizome, are borne on strong, 
erect, naked, chestnut-brown polished stalks 1ft. to IJft. 
long. The leaflets, Sin. to 5in. long and fin. to l^in. 
Fig. 81. Cheilanthes Cleveiandi or Cleveland's Lip Fern, a 
delicately beautiful species from North America. 
broad, are spear-shaped and somewhat distantly placed; 
their leafits, equally spear-shaped, are cut down to the mid- 
• rib into entire, narrow-oblong segments, on both edges 
of which the numerous small and roundish sori are 
uniformly disposed. 
C. Cleveiandi. 
A very handsome greenhouse species, native of North 
America, where it is popularly known as Cleveland's Lip 
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