Plate XXXV, a. 



THE SMOOTH ROCK SPLEENWOUT 



(ASPLENIOM FONTANOM). 



ASPLENIUM, Limucm. 



Clusters of Spore-case* linear, oblong or elongate, straight, attached along tlio inner or 

 anterior side of the vein** or venules, furnished with an iitriustum or membranous 

 cover. Indtmum of the mmo form, entire or somewhat jagged on the margin, 

 opening along the inward side, or that toward* the midvein or axis of venation! 

 Veins disunited at their extremities, their branches (ventUet) simple or forked ; 

 sometimes fureately branched without a midvein. 



A. fohtakum; dwarf; frond* linear-lanceolate broadest upwards, rigid, glabrous, 

 bipiuunto; pinme oblong-ovate; pinnules small obovate-cuneate. with a few 

 large, angular, pointed teeth ; rachfe narrowly winged throughout ; son 

 short oblong. 



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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE, 



IWt XXXV. A^Amwusi roranmj l»A«aiTH4nflcU,llMnpihirDi AW. IK li. H**krr. % from Tooting. Surrey j 

 cultivated ; Cfo/*™ /te™> <7™fc*. 3, Rom 0* dins Alp* ; J. All-in*. 



HA DITA T.— Ilia rupcatrnl and muni iptw b one of oar rami native t'eni*. and ia, indeed, conrndcred by many botaniaU a* 

 on nlim. It i* tn» thai it ha> Inttciiy been found only in lituationa which may *vm to nupport thu of wioq, but *u 

 tho other lumd Urn w pOMtrr* «Ut«moii of iU Uxm% \xxn found in a wild rfalr, tkkt wv ainnot KjevL 

 MorwnYT, whilo to many proUnlo ritwitiotu for it remain luitrtnVJ b>" a irrutuii*i(i^ ©j*, vo nro imuamuik^d ui 

 concluding tbat it doo» nol now v\ut in n wild Male, wbibt ctm if tlio Mwtvb !*nd fc<on much mow oo*np!ctc F iho 

 politico evidence whkh oxbU a* to iU tomCc occonroiee nnut Iw aet aaido. Wo arc, therefore, o> it aeonn to ui t 

 bound to retain it in tbe ttrillth Flora. HuiUoa flnil rworua otir plant as ft native, and rivc* aa *Utioci; 

 Hniomhani Church, and Wjbouro, WfMu^relan'l^ frooa Ibo former of which, according to Sir J. R, Smith, it ma 

 brought alivo to Kc« OarcWni be the lalo Mr. Alton. Tn FJa>Uboh lleiboriuin, aa wo learn from Sir W. J. 

 l[ookey« account (Jvnmai of Jltfa*y t vil 311), on the oppoaite folio to thai on which aro futcne-l *ncrii»r«ii 

 of thU ppceica, ia the following »ratcoeo f WTiKeu l>y Lighlfoot hita**tf: "Hut 1 gathered on AmmmTmm Church, 

 BlhnVa." UolUiti certainly figure* IhU very plant (Che plitc ii vUlol ITftQ, and he writes tbua of it: "Fountain 

 Polipodj U Mid to ktvw on old walU and rwli, alwvo Hammcnhajn Chureh ; b itony pbwvw near Wavoourn. b 

 Wetiovortbnd. tne ■pevivaeti hero figured and described waj aent to mj brother, a. p. 1775. by n ^onlUinan who 

 pLtaerod it in l^cKin^hamkhire, and mistook it for the Aeroatichum OvtiltottV 1 Sir W. J. Jlooicr ju.tk rcwiarka, one 

 don not aeo well how ibt* aecurncr of auch ■tatcmenta <Jiifhlfoot*a pcrtonoi coo U i -\- < m!ly rcfrrrcd to), can be 

 coUed in ^uewtion, Scleral more recent Initancca ofita ocenrrenco lure been rvportt*d< TJtu* it u aaid to han^ Uvn 

 fouml growing wild on roel» n*or Alawich Crwtlc, on the authority of »peeiniena in the povMw»Mii uf Mr. Itrown. In 

 tl*o If crbarium of the llotanical Society of London aro vprcianeiw, n*|w»rte«l <o tiave Uvn gaihered in 1S&S on ra*lui in 

 WhamcbtTe wood, YoHuhiro, by Jlr. K<dlu-nd; and other* from Cavehill, Belfart, communicated by >lr. Newnham. 

 Mr. II. Shepherd, of Liverpool, ha» eovimunitntcd ^neeimcna aaid to Lave been found at Matlock, l>crbj»hire. Wo 

 boie alh r been in^rwjid by Mr. D, HuUWm^ furonrlj gardener at Ikaley Abbey, Kent, that ho himself fathered 

 Hut p|h>th» in 1812, on tuoial roeki near the aca, a bhort dUUnce nortlt-tn»t of Ktonehaicti, Kinoxrdiinvtiiro, in a upot 

 whieh hai >iuce beefi oOVCrtd by an < uiUuikrmnl of the AWroVvn rat1wav t *a tl^at in l^l!* \*c wa» not •uccewtful in 

 reBndlnt: it. In IMS the plant waa a-ain found on an old wall, nrar the mansion of the late D. Haigh. b|„ of 

 Tootuig, Surrey, by Mr. Iiibba, hufntrtUikrr; we have origiml RpcciaH-tin from thu plant gntbend by Mr. tYilU, and 



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