TX, Rockies, 20070114
Davis Mts, ferns. 

These are all from a pile of granite blocks on the west side of 166 a few miles from 118.  (Right where it makes a turn to the left and goes steeply downhill for the first time.  Just before the turnoff to some ranch.)

Bommeria hispida [] 

 GEN fern
 ROOT scales lance & lt brown
 ST reddish brown, glabrate to few v small jointed hairs
 LF pentagonal, 2-pin-pinfid, sharply acicular-bristly appressed to sl appressed, lter bel w similar hairs and brownish lance scales
 SOR submarginal

Cheilanthes villosa [] 

 GEN fern
 ROOT scales large lance w strong sharp dk red-brown midstripe and lt brown marg
 ST red brown, d narr hair-like and sev broad lt brown lance scales
 LF lance, rachis has same scales but more long broad ones, 3-pin, segs nearly round to sl oblong, thin narr reflexed marg, ext d vill ab with v lt brown hairs, glab bel but looks vill due to hairs wrapping around from ab, scales on rachis bel

Pellaea wrightiana [] 

 GEN fern
 ROOT 
 ST dk shiny red brown, glab, shallowly flattened ab to terete bel
 LF 2-pin, pinnae simple at tip to ternate to pin w 2 pairs of lateral pinules below, to 15mm long, oblong, mucronate, strongly rolled under, glab, dull, entire
 SOR submarginal

Selaginella peruviana [] 

 GEN sprawling spikemoss
 ROOT arial roots whole length
 ST sprawling with erect tips that curl up when dry
 LF all lvs similar, spirally arranged, midv min depressed ab, lance, abruptly sl narrowed at base, ascending cilia all over, apical setae 0.5-0.8mm & persist & straight, lvs on top shorter and more ascending than ones on bottom

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