Platk X LL d- 



THE ALTERNATE-LEAVED SPLEENWORT 



(ASPLEOTUM GKRMAMUL'M). 



ASPLENIUM, Lwnms. 



Clusters of Spore-cam linear, oblong or elongate, straight, attached along the ii 

 anterior side of the veins or venule* furnished with An indnstum or in*mi. 



cover. 



mnor or 

 indusinin or membranous 

 TndiUium of the same form, entire or somewhat jagged on the margin 

 opening along the inward sido. or that towards the niidvein or axis of venation! 

 Veita disunited at their extremities, their branches (venules) simple or forked ■ 

 sometimes furcatcly branched without a midvein. 



A. Okhmahictm; fronds linear oblong, broadest at the base, pinnate or sub-bipinnnte - 

 pmiue alternate, ascending, narrow wedge-shaped, toothed at the apex, entire 

 below, the lower ones three-cleft ; sori elongate central ; indushim entire! 



AWHMUM UUUXUVM, HWm. PL*I« <*#*?«,**. 2W. Gray, AM Arm^mmt & BritU* BU.t, 

 ■ .18. AW* UUmr tf OrilU *W 2 «A, 2 «. ZM, X , U , Jl^i, flnW,«a. h. 77. AM*^ 

 U-ml tf Bntok JU V *1* J/W* Ihmto* <f BritUk tW„, 100. miUw, &W M /•;,»,„„„ 

 t. 330. V"J»'. S»*f<™ V^tM!!**, •<• SO. iVrrf, JV»f«*i. I'tnJyropH*, 104 



AULUWU »«»».«ur», flV/,-, *,,(.', .IftWW* Atfrfw, ii. 51. i. 5,J1 S . 2. SmiO, JMul BoL*,, 

 """-.'■f * ! ins '"* W °"' "• 2M ' "«'"--'-'"•", »«'* ««. :.73. ,W,, ft™ «■ Gtv i 



ISnfaia. iXI, I. .13. 



AimmH Bttnu, to.,, o^nAw to^m ***. ^^ *}/«™, s*. ftUOnAVm^ 

 y*«jjf*> GroMir, 77 t L SL ft> t Gener* FilUv*, 100. 



AMttUW WMXMa'K, AW, HUt&y of ttrituh 1W M . 2 od. 10 t 

 JMI, I'll 



tfofrioraibitiru ALTWUJOUra, fort, /'to™ (Jcr**™**, |& £*. 

 rituiiM oinunci, tail Bpimitim ifof**w, to. 



cJ., 25$ ; JpfmJU fo PAjtfiiayitt, 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 

 Plate XII B^AwLtMCM flCftMAMcusi; l f fan dtcatai llack ; cmtti«ii*i< 2. fivoi SwittcriAn.J ; £ AMml 



IIABITAT.-Thi* is ooo of Ihc wrott or Briluli few. lint few nation, mil fow pUnl* having bc*n <h*corcred. Tlw 

 rvo.nU of it* oeeunvne* mv n- folW.— In North WaW. near Llnnm**, ty Mr. IL Witoo.ud ««r LLinU™ 

 CATOHtoaibire, bv Mr. Willum*; in thu Ukc dutrid, on HeWlkn. V lk« R*t. Vf- H. llmktr, and in Hor™^ 

 by Mr IL & Smith And Mu Wright; in NorthlunberiAttdffcin\ on Kyloo Crag* by Mr- G. K. TalO) in tli* 

 Lwfaind* of &rtUn4, oc*r Keu*,«id on Miato Crag*, by Mr. W. Xiclwl , in It* IlifiUnndf at Dunftnnlint. FiMiitVh 

 hyDr.De™, **»! At Sletitoa Rocfc, near Dunkel* Perthshire Mr, llutek™>n, who found Ajfofimm neur 

 Stout'tew, l.i-. informctl u> tkvt il b plentiful oq nxV- almost itiaoc«iiblo, n^t Airila Ca*tlo, FurfAr-hi^, but »v 

 Kavo >c«i no jpwiwn* irani ibenoo. It* altuudiual nm#? hAi bocn AjiprvxiniAtcly computed At between 300 And 

 GOO feci AboTC lUo »ca ; but it |irutubh- n^dxv At leftit nn e^omioti of WOO feet in Wak*. 



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APIIlCALPlsrftlHL'TION\^TboA]UrTalc.k^T<dSpWuwoHA n ^ 



European equine*, u fAr north aj llttungfori i but wo hnre no infoniuition of it. occbrmw in other pirt» <*f the 



Camlex tufted, short, thickisli, scaly. Scab* small, narrow lanceolate, <lark brown, striato-rcticulalo. 

 Fibres slender, branched. 



Stipes terminal and adherent to tlio eandex, Hlcnder. nearly, often quite, as long as the frond, dark 

 purplish brown below, #reen above, and as well as the ruchis smooth. 



Vernation circulate. 



Fronds from two to six inches high, narrow, linear oblong, somewhat broadest at the base, pinnate, 

 subbipinnato, or, when very luxuriant, bipinnato below, palish green, scarcely sub-coriaceous. Pinna 

 alternate, ascending, remote, the lower ones largest and most developed : in small plants narrow-obovato 



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