. 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. 3. Cheilanthes Feei Moore. Lip-fern. Fig. 80. Slender Myriopteris gracilis Fee, Gen. Fil. 150. 1830-52. C. lanuginosa Nutt.; Hook. Sp. Fil. 2: 99. 1858. C. gracilis Mett. Abh. Senck. Nat. Gesell. 3: 80. 1859. Cheilanthes Feei Moore, Ind. Fil. xxxviii. 1857. Rootstock short, covered with narrow brown scales lined with black. Stipes densely tufted, slender, about
. 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. 3. Cheilanthes Feei Moore. Lip-fern. Fig. 80. Slender Myriopteris gracilis Fee, Gen. Fil. 150. 1830-52. C. lanuginosa Nutt.; Hook. Sp. Fil. 2: 99. 1858. C. gracilis Mett. Abh. Senck. Nat. Gesell. 3: 80. 1859. Cheilanthes Feei Moore, Ind. Fil. xxxviii. 1857. Rootstock short, covered with narrow brown scales lined with black. Stipes densely tufted, slender, about as long as the leaves, at first cov- ered with woolly hairs, at length nearly glabrous; blades ovate-lanceolate, 2'-s long, 1/-2' wide, 2-3-pinnate, the upper surface slightly tomentose, the lower densely woolly with soft whitish-brown hairs; pinnae mostly oblong-ovate and contiguous, the lowermost deltoid-ovate and distant; pinnules pinnate or crenately pinnatifid into several pairs of crowded minute roundish segments, the reflexed margin forming an herbaceous indusium. On rocks, Illinois and Minnesota to British Co- lumbia, to Texas and New Mexico. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addison, 1830-1913. New York, Scribner
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