. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. i. Cheilanthes alabamensis (Buck!.) Kunze. Alabama Lip-fern. Fig. 78. Pteris alabamensis Buckl. Amer. Journ. Sci. 45: 177. 1843- C. alabamensis Kunze, Linnaea 20: 4. 1847. Rootstock creeping, rather stout and short, clothed with very slender hair-like dark fer- ruginous scales. Stipes black, 3'-7' long, slender, wiry, villous at least towards the base with rust
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. i. Cheilanthes alabamensis (Buck!.) Kunze. Alabama Lip-fern. Fig. 78. Pteris alabamensis Buckl. Amer. Journ. Sci. 45: 177. 1843- C. alabamensis Kunze, Linnaea 20: 4. 1847. Rootstock creeping, rather stout and short, clothed with very slender hair-like dark fer- ruginous scales. Stipes black, 3'-7' long, slender, wiry, villous at least towards the base with rusty hair-like scales; blades lan- ceolate, glabrous, 2'-io' long, 2-pinnate; pinnae numerous, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- nate, very short-stalked, the lowest usually smaller than those above; pinnules oblong or triangular-oblong, mostly acute, often auriculate on the upper side at the base, or the larger ones on both sides and above more or less lobed; indusia pale, mem- branous, continuous or sometimes slightly interrupted by the incising of the pinnules. On rocks, Virginia to Alabama, Illinois, Mis- souri, Arkansas and Arizona. 2. Cheilanthes lanosa (Michx.) Watt. Hairy Lip-fern. Fig. 79. Nephrodium lanosum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 270. 1803. Cheilanthes vestita Sw. Syn. Fil. 128. 1806. C. lanosa Watt, Trimen's Journ. Bot. 12: 48. 1874. Rootstock short, creeping, with pale rusty-brown scales. Stipes .tufted, wiry, chestnut-brown, 2'-4' long, hirsute with rusty jointed hairs; blades her- baceous, oblong-lanceolate, 4'-o' long, i'-2' wide, gradually attenuate to the apex, 2-pinnate; pinnae somewhat distant, especially the lower ones, deltoid- ovate to ovate-oblong, more or less densely hirsute like the stipe and rachis and usually somewhat glandular; pinnules in several pairs, close or some- what apart, oblong, deeply pinnatifid into close roundish or oblong lobes, the margins of these form- ing separate herbaceous indusia. On rocks, Connecticut and southern New York to Ge
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