Platk XLL c. 



THE FORKED SPLEENWORT 



(ASPLKNIUM SEPTKSTKIONALE), 



ASPLENIUM, limmu*. 



Clusters of Sport-cases linear, oblong or elongate, straight, attached along the inner or 

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

 cover. Indmium 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 (venules) simple or forked; 

 sometimes fureately branched without a midvein. 



A. 8EPTEHTRI03ALB fronds linear, simple, or two- or three-cleft; or forked, with linear 

 cleft divisions; segments alternate, ascending, elongate and rachiform, with a 

 few deep narrow distant teeth ; sori few, olongatc, often parallel ; indusium 

 entire, 



Aarf.imcu feurrumiONaLF, //flaunt*, Dr#t*tlUn<f* /Va, iL 12. JMI, Ilrititk Fhro, 211. SnitK, Emtftik 

 fitf*aj t it., i, 1017 ; Aajftaa Fbra t W. 205, t7rty, A*f*»J AmHpmnt tf Britul PU*t* r IL 14. ll&rtrr 



*»JAr*tfi t TiriritX PJora^tTtL Jfoltfitytoa, Ma* wit cf UritUh Ifofaay, 115. /tatAfa, FIwifrafAi* Jlfitaitnka^ 



iv. 74, AVamra, Hutory tfliritiA /cvw*, 2 c<L t 200. Surer*/, Fmi o/ Gmt Brit&n, '>% L ftf. J/tarc, 

 lUn/Uwk ef UnfM »iw, 171. &a*aar, AVv/.^m. iwi< GnrtfeJ «.♦, G2 f t. G3. irtflifotw, ^c*V* 



JfeirAmaf, v, 307. $j>m$t t t $ftU*M Vty*t*tili*m t Ir. 81. PrwJ, Ibifour*, 10ft. 1. 3,/?. S. 



Acrokttciivu *Em»n»0XALr, L*n*<r**, $j#<*t* P?*ni<trw** t 1324* Jitfton, FRkt* Britannic*, 11 1, 8. 



ActOATCCiiCK LaciM.vrt w. Gitibeft* " J&ttrr. itfyfef, ii + 555." 



rn:i:u UfrKXTUWUIia, 5*tfrft, JT/ihoiVn J? TA**dfaU fcytU Jt* &vwc« 4* T*ri», r. 412 (in obj.). 



StOLOI-TTOftiru arrTTSTll&Nin^ Il*tk t Phra Gffv#ttinr t EL 49- 



AckOJTKKlK nEFTDmUOVAUSp Wfcfr, Iftrt** Jfryutr /yVA'Ji-wiml ii. 50; JWiVhh ^avtet, 80. JfrV, tfwrtf JWr», 



77,1.0,*,/*!. 

 Awaurit titrtixrtlOXAli, aVtaiav, BhnWy tf Britiih fV™ ( 2 erf, 10; 3«].,M*: Jpj**JU to Ptytdtyut, 



l&^I. Yii. 

 Itr.t - itvi m ntnarnUOSUU^ JfiuVrof*, fflvfftt Pi*y*rXuth f CovtprnJfHa Fter* ti/rmafar, i.L SI (LeuVb.). 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



1'tATE XL!. -ft— AsPUSTini SItYBtTaWUUj L from Borrowdale. Cumberland; jlfca IFV*cl/. 2 t from Artlur'i Seal, 

 Edinburgh ; /. T. £r«e. 3, from Llannmt, l>enbigh*1iin* ; ft. J. Gr*y. 4, from Cmi£*dbu, Uanta K* ; S* 0. Gr*j, 



HABITAT— A raro apeeiea. but nidclr diftributcd. Wing found iu Somcml ami Doron, in North WnW, in it* L-ik* 

 ]>iptr,- *. v. :V liir-, And Northumberland ; in Kr.-ibyp^hslur^t mnd ibotit Kdinbnrch ; in LVrthtUrc, And at the I p *m uf 

 !U!li1rr t in Abci>kcn>}iiiv f vhkh i" tlwj ino*t DOrtl^rij' *Ulton yet certified. Ibough it la> been reported frosn Orkney, 

 »h it alto h&ft from Forfnnhin 1 * It roadm na dci-allon of njiwirdi of 3000 fc<t f and dc*CVB& nearly lo the m^ Jerel 

 in North WnW, It doei ne4 Appear to occur at all in Inland. TV ulualiori* in which It h found, ire £**urc» of 

 roola, and the intcraticca of looao alone ftalla. 



GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.— ThU Ma no* uncommon Eurofcoa plants occurring al>um!aMlj in aom* of the 

 tnounlainou* tract* of central Euroj*% and vitending from tli*> northern kiugdoni to Italy, Spain, and Hungary. Tn 

 Aab, it « found in Northern India i Kaahftiir, KnaMon {//ft, //eolw); and in the m^iona of iW Caucuiuh llio Unl, 

 and the Altai, It occur* in New Meiico, (J/o. £*WAy t //otOvr), 





Cawlcx hI\o\% thick, turtetl, often forming large dense scaly mosses. Scales small, narrow lanceolate, 

 dark brown, striato-reticnlato. Fibres numerous wiry, branched. 



Stipes teraiinal, adherent to the cnudex, dark brown-purple at the base, green above, as long as, or 

 longer than the frond. 



VerntUion cinrinate. 



Fronds from two to six inches high ; sometimes simple, and then cither entire or with a few distant 

 marginal subulate teeth 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 cither simple, toothed, 

 or lobed on the same plan as the simple fronds. They arc numerous, deep green ; the simple ones 



