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Adiantum tenerum . Tender Maiden-hair . Caudex 
widely creeping; fronds four times pinnate; leaflets 
minute, numerous, glossy, evergreen. A very beautiful 
and elegant fern, resembling but surpassing, both in size 
and delicacy, our native species. Its home is the West 
Indies. 
Adiantum Wilsoni . Wilson’s Maiden-hair. Caudex 
creeping ; fronds pinnate, formed of three or five leaflets 
of a leathery texture, and dark green colour. It is a 
native of Jamaica. 
Adiantum Brasiliense. Brazilian Maiden-hair. An 
evergreen fern, growing a foot high ; fronds bipinnate ; 
stems hairy. 
Adiantum cardiochlcena. Heart-shaped Maiden-hair. 
A large and very beautiful species, attaining a height of 
3 feet. It has heart-shaped sori. Its home is tropical 
America. 
Cheilanthes pulveracea. Powdery Cheilanthes. Fronds 
bipinnate ; pinnae divided into equal leaflets ; the leaflets 
sessile, green above and white beneath; the general 
form of the frond is lanceolate. 
Cheilanthes viscosa. Clammy Cheilanthes . Fronds tri- 
pinnate, triangular in form, three-branched; leaflets 
lanceolate, blunt, toothed, light green, covered with 
clammy, glandulous hairs. A native of Mexico. 
Cheilanthes farinosa. Mealy Cheilanthes. Fronds bi- 
pinnate in the lower part, then pinnate, and only pin- 
natifid towards the apex, general form triangular, but 
tapering at the apex; bright green above, snow-white 
beneath ; stem and rachis crimson shading to black, 
12-24 inches high. A fern of rare and surpassing beauty ; 
a native of the West Indies and tropical America. 
Cheilanthes lendigera. Maggot-bearing Cheilanthes. 
