Prare XL. 
THE GREEN SPLEENWORT (Азрг 
NIUM VIRIDE). 
ASPLENIUM, Linneus. 
Clusters of Spore-cases linear, oblong or elongate, strai 
ght, attached alo 
rior side of the veins or venules, furnished with an 
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 (cenudes) simple or forked ; 
oly branched without a midvein. 
\dusium or membranous 
sometimes furca 
А. паши; fronds linear, pinnate; pinna subrotund, roundish-ovate, or thomboidal, 
crenated, distinctly stalked ; rachis green, with an obtuse ele 
in front, not wi 
ted green border 
ед; sori approximate to the midrib. 
Smith, agish Botany, we, 1.2357; Кау Fiora, iv, 299. Hoker sal Amt, [itid F 
Region, Мон у а Delany, Ші.” Machy, Flore Пота MI, Deck F 
Misi Normen, der of Bish Feo 20. Мел, ando Р 
Апатты Tutcnowasta талону, Zines, pce Patrum ШАЙ, Boles, Fit Brians, 35,63 £8. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
‘tiated, De Akin 
pil, Gray. B, from Ben Laven, Pelo; ТОМ. O, from 
HABITAT Tio Green Spleenwort ік od principally in the mosaicos зоду die of the nor 
ced, lly dope tl ере wann li 
ва un e fou in Shetland (ITA. & Е Org). Мете 
DISTRIBUTION. т T 
Spain. Tine ford in Talia, a Қалаға (10. Ладе 
Sila (Lor) when e 
u (Hb, Hooker and Mas, Brit). 
Caudez tufted, somewhat creeping, sparingly scaly at the crown. Seales lanceolate, dark brown, 
cellulose. Fibres slender, branched. 
Stipes variable, 
ometimes quite short, usually about a third of the length of the frond, smooth, 
dark brown at the base, green upwards, semiterete ; terminal and adherent to the caudex, Rachis 
green, slender, slightly grooved in front 
Vernation eireinate 
Fronds two or three inches to eight or ten inches long, linear, pinnate. Pinna delicately herbaceous, 
palish green ; variable in form, usually roundish-ovate, and somewhat cunea 
lo at the base, or more 
obliquely cuneate there, thus becoming sub-trapeziform or rhomboidal ; distant and usually opposite 
below, more crowded and alternate above ; attached by a distinet slender stalk, the margin erenated or 
ineiso-erenate, except at the 
ate base, which is entire, Occasionally the pinnse are equal-sided and 
broadest at the b gated 
Jod at the apex; and sometimes they are more elo 
and acute 
Venation consisting of a midvein, producing forked veins at the base of the рішше and simple 
above ; these veins and venules terminate abruptly within the margin, the point of termination being 
