ttt J^eaves j-pinnate^ tomentose. 
3. C. tomentosa Link. 
Cheilanthes tomentosa Lt7zk^ i^33* Hort. Ber. 
2 : 42. Eaton^ 1. c. i : 345. t. 45. ff. 1-5 ; in 
Gray, 1, c. 681. Underiv, in 111. Fl. i : 31 ; 
Nat. Ferns 94; in Britt. 1. c. 10. Clute^ 1. c. 
239. Waters^ 1. c. 108. 
WoLT.Y Lip Fern. 
Plants 1-4 dm. high, more or less beset with a brown 
tomentum ; leaves linear-lanceolate ; ovate-lanceolate, ra- 
ther distant, 1-3 cm. 1. ; secondary pinnae oblong, i cm. 
or less 1. ; pinnules minute. 
In crevices of rocks. 
Reported from the mountains of Virginia. I have seen this 
fern in the mountains about Chattanooga, Tenn. ; it has the 
same range as the preceding species. 
11. ADIANTUM Diosc. 
Adiantum^ Graecis^ Adianton. Officinis Capillus 
Vene7'is . . Camer. 1586. De Plantis . .924. 
Handsome ferns preferring rocky woods. Leaves va- 
rious ; stipes brown or dark.. colored. Sporecases borne 
at the end of the free veinlets and covered by a ref lexed 
portion of the leaf-margin. 
t Leaves dlckotomously forked, 
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