Pus X 
EA SPLEENWORT (ASPLENIUM MARINUM. 
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ТНЕ 
ASPLENIUM, Linnaeus. 
Clusters of Spore-cases linear, oblong or elongate, straight, attached along the inner 
anterior side of the veins or venules, furnished with an indusium or membranous 
cover. Indusium of the same form, entire or somewhat jagged on the margin. 
opening along the inward side, or that towards the midvein or axis of venation, 
Veins disunited at their extremities, their branches (venules) simple or forked ; 
sometimes furcately branched without a midve 
A. машкти; fronds linear or line 
lanceolate, tapered 
rtly stalked, the margin serrate unequally erenate 
or lobate, rarely pinnatifid, the anterior base truncate and sub-auriculate, the 
bove, pinnate; pinnæ ovate 
oblong or linear, oblique, sh 
posterior cuneate ; upper ones confluent; sori large, elongate, borne near the 
rib ; rachis and petiole winged 
Aereos маем, Linen, Spier Plantarum, 1540. Holton, Fili 
"Batany, vi, 1.992; ВЫ 
ra, 5.204. Hooker, Fiora Londineni, iv, 57, L 00. Deakin, Ри торца 
эт. Mackay, Flow Hi 
Mannal of British Botany, АА, Moor, Tandil ef Britisk Bens, 160 X 
Ferna, 235. бөгей, Ferna, 00,30. КАДЫ, Kryplogomiscte 
Plantarum, v. 218. Sprengel, Suena Veytabilus, iv. з. Pre 
dus O, t, ©з. Waldo, Specie 
Genera Ейс, 190. 
Amarin raarezınonun, Zudem, Flare deg, 400, scoring to Smith, Pelton, and nearly all authors 
ъан up 
Var. зовоон, fronds membranaceous, pinnate, the lower рішше distinct obtuse 
obliquely-triangular, or sub-hastate, undulate and lobate below, the lobes 
the apices of the pinna» minutely apicul 
‘o-dentate ; sori small, narrow, remot 
om the midrib, 
Asriastox мзевовоз, 7. Ж. MS, in Her 
Var. SUBSIPINNATUM; fronds pinnate, the pinnee almost 
and deeply pinnatifid throughout ; anterior basal lobes oval acute serrate, 
in pinnate at their base 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Prave XXXVITL.— Asturies amen А, ftom етеу; Dr. Alk. В, from 6 
0, тыну. с, 
Corneal; J. Artine. D, from St Виде Bay, Jersey; 8.0. бту. E, fom vom; 2.2. Grey. 
Тош, Deron; C. St. Q, А. axxx cursu, from Hulme Quarry, Warrington; ааай, Z6 
Н, А. nants nanose, from Inland cultivated; Dr. om 
MABITAT.—Thi plant occurs nd often abundantly, on all our coasts, with the exception 
England. И is most profuse in the southwest of England and In Wales thence s 
Sequeney,catvarls as far as Виме, and northwards to Orkney, from which lator 
ters, along the eter sile of Sootland to Yorkshire Jt i found also in the Hebrides, and ie abundant on и 
Irish coaste, and in the Channel Islands. From one of the latter, Guernsey, we lave тон specimens then In 
М. Bist, measuring thirty-four inches in length of wh pied by about thirty ri 
Pin the large of these D inche and a an inch wide; larger specimens 
Vero produce on the sam armo plant, bu i 
T. G. Rylands has sent n Turk Mountain, Killarney, a 
recorded by Mr, Nena 
Caudez tufted, егесі, or decumbent, densely scaly. Seales dark brown, shining, cellulosely-strinte, 
lanceolate, extended into a long hair-like point. Fibres branching, numerous. 
Stipes shorter than the frond, smooth, channelled in front, chestnut-coloured or purplish-brown ; 
