Tas. 4911. 
ASPLENIUM Henmnonirtis. 
Hemionitis-like Spleenwort. 
Nat. Ord. Finices.—CryrroGaMia FILIcEs. 
Gen. Char. Sori lineares, elongati, dorso vene simplicis aut venule superioris 
furcaturee, primarie, aut omnibus venulis insidentes. Jndusium lineare, elonga- 
tum, planum.—Rhizoma subglobosum. Frondes fasciculate, coriacee aut herbacee, 
simplices, lobate pinnatimque divise. Ven pinnate, crebre, interne aut parum 
subtus prominule, simplices aut uni-bifurcate, venulisque parallel, aut apice libero 
punctiformi acutove terminate, aut arcu transverso conjuncte. Presl. 
ASPLENIUM Hemionitis ; ceespitosum, stipite semiterete facie superiore sulcato 
basi setoso-paleaceo, fronde circumscriptione cordata hastato-5-loba, lobo 
medio elongato acuminato, venulis omnibus soriferis apice intra marginem 
clavatis, soris elongatis. 
AsPLENIUM Hemionitis. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1587. Brot. Fl. [us. v. 2. p. 398. 
Sm. Tent. Fil. Gen. p. 9. (not of Swartz and Cavanilles.) 
ASPLENIUM palmatum. Lam. Encycl. v. 2. p. 302. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 75. (excl. 
Syn. Lam. Ill. t. 867. f. 2.) Wiild. Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 306. Schkuhr, Fil. 
p. 62. ¢.66. Webb, Plant. Canar. v. 2. p. 438. (excl. Syn. Lam. Ill.) 
FeE.1x Hemionitis dicta, Maderensis, Hedere arborez aliquatenus emula. Pluk. 
Alm. p.155. Phyt. ¢. 287. f. 4. 
We are glad to embrace an opportunity of figurimg this hand- 
some Fern, partly on account of its beauty, and partly because 
it gives us the means of correcting some synonyms. It inhabits 
shady places in woody regions of North-western Africa, as far 
south as St. Nicholas, in the Cape de Verdes, the Azores, the 
Canaries, Madeira, and Spain and Portugal: in short, the 
south-western parts of Europe and north-western of Africa, in- 
cluding the adjacent islands. The plant requires a cool green- 
house for its cultivation.: ; 
It has no doubt been confounded with the Scolopendrium He- 
mionitis, Sw. (Schkuhr, Fil. t. 84), to which probably Linnzeus’s 
locality of “Italy” belongs (taken, it would appear, from Clu- 
sius); for our plant does not appear to be a native of Italy at 
all. Swartz and Willdenow indeed refer the Linnean Asplenium 
APRIL Ist, 1856, 
