CHEILANTHES TOMENTOSA, Link. 
Webby Lip-Fern. 
Cheilanthes TOMENTOSA: — Root-stock short, chaffy with 
glossy subulate scales; stalks tufted, four to eight inches long, 
erect, rather stout, clothed with soft woolly pale-ferruginous 
hairs, intermixed with others which are flattened and decidedly 
paleaceous; fronds eight to fifteen inches long, oblong-lanceo- 
late, webby-tomentose with slender brownish-white obscurely 
articulated hairs, especially beneath, tripinnate; primary and 
secondary pinnae oblong or ovate-oblong; ultimate pinnules 
closely placed, but distinct, roundish-obovate, sessile, or ad- 
nate to the tertiary rachis, one-half to three-fourths of a line 
long, the terminal ones twice longer; involucres whitish, con- 
tinuous round the pinnule and very narrow. 
Cheilanthes tomentosa, Link, “Hort. Berol., ii., p. 42.” — Fil. Hort. Berol., 
p. 65. — Kunze, in Sill. Journ., July, 1848, p. 87; in Linnaea, 
xxiii., p. 245. — Gray, Manual, ed. ii., p. 592. — Mettenius, Fil. 
Hort. Lips., p. 50; Cheilanthes, p. 37. — E.vton, in Chapman’s 
Flora, p. 590; Ferns of the South-West, p. 31.^. — Baker, 
Syn. Fil., p. 140. — Williamson, Ferns of Kentucky, p. 49, 
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