Plants 1-4 dm. high; leaves pinnate, 2-pinnate’below; 
pinnae linear-oblong, 1-4 cm. long, 1 cm. or less wide ; 
stipes dark-brown. 
In crevices of rocks. July-September. 
10. CHEILANTHES Swartz, 1806. 
LVomen a xéthos, Margo et avbes, Flos. Sw. Syn. 126 
Rock-loving ferns, growing usually in clusters. Root- 
stock short, sometimes stout. Leaves 2-3-pinnate. In- 
dusia confluent or distin&. 
} Leaves 2-pinnate, glabrous or nearly so. 
1.C. alabamensis (Buckl.) Kunze. 
Pteris alabamensis Buckl. 1843. Am. Journ. Sc. 
45: 177. 
Chetlanthes alabamensis Kunze, Lainnaea 20: 4. 
Laton, Ferns N. Am. 2: 89. t. 57..ff. 7--9; in 
Gray Man. 681. Underw. in Il. Fl 1: 30; Nat. 
Ferns 93; in Britt. Man. 9. Clute, Ferns 242. 
Waters, Ferns 98. 
ALABAMA Lip FERN. 
Plants 1 dm. or higher; leaves lanceolate, 2-pinnate 
below, 2-pinnatifid or pinnate towards the apex; pinnae 
ovate— or oblong-lanceolate, 0.5--2 cm. long, pinnules 
oblong, variously toothed or entire; stipes slender, wiry, 
blackish. 
_ Reported from the mountains of Virginia. 1 have seen 
specimens from the mountains of North Carolina and 
Tennessee, but none from Virginia. 
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