Plate XXXVIII. 



THE SEA SPLEENWORT (Asplenia marinojt). 



ASPLENIUM, linnmit. 



Clmters of Spore-cases linear, oblon*j or elongate, straight attached alon^ the inner or 

 anterior side of the veins or venules, furnished with an iiidusiuin or membranous 

 cover. Indusinm of the same form, entire or somewhat jagged on the margin 

 opening along the inward side, or that towards tho midvein or axis of venation. 

 Vcim disunited at their extremities, their branches (venules) simple or forked - 

 sometimes furcfttely branched without a midvein. 



A, mamkuK; fronds linear or linenr-lanccolato, tapered above, pinnate ; pinnro ovate 

 oblong or linear, oblique, shortly stalked, tho margin serrate unequally crenate 

 or lolrnte, rarely pinnntilid, tho anterior Iwise truncate and sub-auricula tc> tlio 

 posterior cuuente; up|>er ones conlluent; son large, elongate, borne near the 

 midrib ; raehis and petiole winged. 



Afvranm kabdiw, Umw^ #w*W FUaimm, 1310. J/*/*™, FBitt* J?n7«™e*, 2ft t- 13, SmkK&fU* 



lkta*j t yL, t. :K)3 ; EmgtM Ifa^ St. 2»|. HbftaW, #Unt XoaaW™, k„ 57, t. CO. /feati*, >7^Jm 

 Brit4*m*m t Sr. 09. Ifahr «rf Arnold BritUk rfor* t 573. M.-A^ FU* //tfrrafe*; 3H, Jfatoyfair, 

 Ma*a*t tfBrituk /Ari»y, 414. Jflwee, J/if«do»L r/ ZfrifuA J*me, l&h Xtm**^ JtUterytf BrUuA 

 fl™, £W, &>r*r*y, ftrau, flO, L 2D- Seller. XrypfeftmueM* Oe anuata, 04, 1. t». JFitfJrao*, Sp*w 

 i'totarw, t. SIR •V*?''. %/«m FtyraUOirJtt, Jr. S3. 2W ( TfrAntr* iferifarWw, 107. J&. 



Apianra nai-ffltfrdftu*. //»*/«-, >7*m ^i V /#oi, ii. 4C0 t aoeonlinglo Snith, Itoltoo, and nearly all author* i 

 but HixIkw dcverilh . hit ;■'■ .1 mi ** wpiwlvoompoiind " 



K«r. MICE0B0H; fronds membranaceous,* pinnate, the lower pinna distinct obtuse 

 obliquely-triangular, or subdmstato, undulato and lobate below, the lobes and 

 tho apices of the pinme minuMy apiculato-dentato; sori small, narrow, remote 

 from the midrib. 



Avplemim uicnofrOX, 71 Jf. Jf& v fa J/ev& 



Pin sd^biphthatdk; fronds pinnate the pinnic almost ngain pinnate at their base 

 and deeply pinnatifid throughout; anterior basal lobes oval acute serrate. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



Pute XXXVIII. — Aarmtra mhixtjm; A, from Jaw-* Dft AftMm* B, from Cucnueyi O. IfVary, C, fn» 

 Cornwall; X AiHm* D, from St. Bride'. 1%, Jmoy; & O. ««y. E, from Eieter, Devon; B. J. Gr*y- F, from 

 Totow, Dctotj A AVatf. O, A. lUftiOTM CimiUM, from Uulrae Quarry, Wwriogtooj eullivate*! ; 71 ft ti.,?.-.Ji 

 H p A. maiim'u- UAttosiH, from Ireland; cultivate*!; Br. Younf* 



HABITAT.— Tbii plant occur*, and often abtufthitllj-, cm nil our mm«, teith the c-iCtfplion of the** of th* edatera aid* of 

 England. It h rooit profuw* in tho f*uih*«««t of England and ha Wale*; therm apreading, but iliiniiriahuig m 

 ih^tacncy.Caitawda a* (uraaSuaaM.an*! n HUanU to Orfmer, from which UlUr point it poM, ooe«mn$ bfiW 

 ami IbOts *Joos tbe «wtem tido of Scotland to Vorit^irc. It t» fatmd abo i« tl* Ilebri*U^ and h «bimi1nnl on the 

 Iriab ooa*U. and in tlio Cluiand 1 ^IamU. From on* of l»>o latter, OuenJier, *re h***0 metred xpeci^ciui gathered by 

 M. BoMtel. imwjrlng thlrtr-foor inehe* in length, ofwkieb twentv^otur incbe* were ocenjjie*! hy about thirty pair* of 

 pinna?, the larffert of there being about two beta My \ A half fang, awl ih^v-ei^hthr. of an inch wide ; lu^et qkCdsMttl 

 were piodDeed on the anna* phnt. which wai growing without toil on a damp rook ! It iaa maritime 'plant, but it 

 oectirt in aomo fevt evw inland, a* at Newton, and in the imghbourtood of Warrington, fa Luieaihuv, whence Mr. 

 T. O. Rylandi haa vent wm< *r the frooda we have figutvdi again, on tho aide of Turk Mount-in, Killartiry, m 

 reeorded by Mr. Newman. It probably doea nut attain any cotuiderablo altitude aboiv tho o»*t level. 



OB0OBAKOI0AX DISTRlUUTlON^Tb* apeereairmna limited, in Europe, to tho wortcm fiflrt' **>«*» it eroarea from 

 Spain to Tanfficr^ on tbe *Vfrknn eo**t j and b| 0K*»n found in Madeira, the Aaore*, and (he Caoarie*. Jlore aouth- 

 wnrd, it oppeara in St. Het«iu <//*. //Mer). Sir \V. Hooler'a Herbarium oho conUim ipeeimf;[»a narked aa 

 having been brouo^it frotn New Holland, together with othrn* of tmall via* from New BruaawJek, and aimitar ooea 

 from North America, not •{« tally hx^ali*^!. 



Cuudex tufted, orcct, or decumbent, densely scaly. Scales dark brown, shining, ceUuloaely-striate, 

 lanceolate, oxtended into n long hair-like point. Fibres branching, numerous. 



Stipes shorter than the frond, smooth, channelled in front, chestnut-coloured or purplish -brown ; 



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