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FERNS ! BRITISH AND FOREIGN. 
tose. Fronds 4-18 inches high, slender, decompound, pinnatifid, 
pilose or piloso-squamiferous ; ultimate segments minute, gene- 
rally orbicular or cuneiform, concave ; the margin membranous, 
revolute, conniving, forming an universal cucullate indusium. 
Veins forked, free. Receptacles terminal. Sporangia few to each 
receptacle, confluent under the uniserial indusium. 
1. M. lendigera, Fee. Cheilanthes lendigera, Sw. ; Hook. 
Sp. Fil, t. 106 A. Notholaena lendigera, Sm. Gen. 
Fit. Cheilanthes tenuis, Hort.; Lowe's Ferns, 4, 
t. 23. — Tropical America. T. 
2. M. myriopliylla, J. Sm. Cheilanthes myriopliylla, Desv. ; 
Hook. Sp.Fil. t. 105 A . — Tropical America. T. 
3. M. elegans, J. Sm. Cheilanthes elegans, Desv. ; Hook. Sp. 
Fil. 1 . 105 B ; Lowe’s Ferns, 4, t. 20. Myriopteris 
Marsupianthus, Fee, Gen. Fil. 1. 12 A, f. 1. — Tropical 
America. T. 
4. M. tomentosa, Fee. Cheilanthes tomentosa, Link ; Hook. 
Sp. Fil. t. 109 A. — Mexico and Southern United 
States. 
5. M. frigida, J. Sm. Cheilanthes frigida, Linden. Chei- 
lanthes lendigera, Lowe’s Ferns, 4, t. 24. — Tropical 
America. T. 
6. M. vestita, J. Sm. Cheilanthes vestita, Sw. ; Sckk. Fil. 
t. 124 ; Hook. Sp. Fil. t. 108 B. Notholaena vestita, 
Desv. ; J. Sm. Gen. Fil. ; Lowe’s Ferns, 1, t. 16 B. — 
North America. T. 
7. M. hirta, J. Sm. Cheilanthes hirta, Sw. ; Hook. Sp. Fil. 
2, t. 101 B ; Lowe’s Ferns, 4, t. 18. Cheilanthes 
Ellisiana, Hort. — South Africa. 
88. CHEILANTHES, Sw. {in part). 
Vernation fasciculate, erect or decumbent. Fronds bi-tri- 
pinnate, rarely simple pinnate, 4-18 inches or more in height, 
smooth, pilose, glandulose, squamose or farinose; ultimate seg- 
ments often small. Veins forked, free. Receptacles terminal. 
