Piare XLI. с 
THE FORKED SPLEENWORT 
(ASPLENIUM SEPTENTRION 
ALE). 
ASPLENIUM, Linneus. 
Clusters of Spore-cases linear, oblong or elongate, straight, 
anterior side of the veins or venules, furnished wi 
cover. Indusium of the same 
tached along the inner or 
an indusium or membranous 
cwhat jagged on t 
‘opening along the inward side, or that towards the midvein or axis of venation, 
Veins disunited at their extremities, their branches (venudes) simple or forked ; 
sometimes fureately branched without a midvein 
m, entire or 
А, SEPFESTRIONALE fronds linear, simple, or two- or three-cleft 
or forked, with linear 
cleft divisions ; segments alternate 
ascending, clongate and rachiform, with a 
few deep narrow distant teeth; sori few, elongate 
entire. 
often parallel; indusium 
Асло наттын Lob, Hort Па dyes 30. is деген Filium, 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
GEOGRAPITICAL DISTRIBUTION. mis а Parop pls T 
Caudez short, thick, tufted, often forming lange dense scaly masses. Seales small, narrow lanceolate, 
dark brown, strinto-reticulate. Fibres numerous, wiry, branched. 
Stipes terminal, adherent to the caudex, dark brown-purple at the baso, green above, as long as, or 
longer than the frond. 
Vernation eireinate. 
Fronds from two to six inches high ; sometimes simple, and then either entire or with a few distant 
marginal subulate teoth appearing as if split away from the main portion, or divided into two or three 
narrow-linear alternate ascending lobes ; sometimes forked, with the two divisions either simple, toothed, 
ог Tobed on the same plan as the simple fronds "They are numerous, deep green ; tho simple ones 
