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BEAUTIFUL FERNS. 
Myriopteris tomentosa, Fee, Gen. Fil., p. 149, t. xii., A., f. 2 (a pin- 
nule). — Fournier, PI. Mex., Crypt., p. 125 (species exclusa). 
Notholcena tomentosa, J. Smith. 
Cheilanthes Bradburii, Hooker, Sp. Fil., ii., p. 97, t. cix., B. — Metten- 
lus, Cheilanthes, p. 37. 
Had. — Sandstone rocks along the French Broad River, in North 
Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, Professor Gray, Mr. Canby, Rev. D. 
R. Shoop, Professor Bradley, etc. Texas, Lindheimer, No. 743. Moun- 
tains of Virginia (?) and Kentucky, according to Gray’s Manual, but 
Mr. Williamson has hitherto failed to find it in the last named State. 
The Kew herbarium contains, besides Lindheimer’s plant, a very imper- 
fect specimen marked “ Manitou Rocks, 250 miles up the Missouri, 
Bradbury,” and good specimens from Texas collected by Drummond. 
Kunze states that it was raised [at the Leipzig garden ?] from Mexican 
spores, and that Rugel collected a few specimens in North Carolina; 
but Fournier rejects it as a Mexican species. 
Description: — This is decidedly the largest plant among 
all our North American species of Cheilanthes, some of the 
tallest specimens measuring nearly two feet in total length. 
The root-stock is short, and disposed to branch. It is thickly 
clad with fine subulate chaff, many of the scales with a dark 
and rigid midnerve, and others lighter-colored and without 
midnerve. The plant evidently grows in dense masses. The 
stalks are clustered, each root-stock sending up a large num- 
ber of them. They are rigid, wiry, terete and covered with 
grayish-tawny spreading soft woolly hairs, intermixed with 
a few which are broader and decidedly paleaceous, especially 
