Hemionitis without any doubt to the Scolopendrium ; but Smith 
corrects this error under that genus in Rees’s Cyclopedia: “ As- 
plenium Hemionitis of Swartz, Cavanilles, and others, has no- 
thing of the character of the genus, except when two lines, ori- 
ginating in different lobes or rudiments of lobes, rarely and acci- 
dentally meet in opposition to each other ;” and, in his excellent 
*Tentamen Bot. de Filicum generibus dorsiferarum’ (p. 9), Asple- 
nium Hemionitis is given the example of the true genus Asplenium. 
We therefore feel ourselves quite justified in restoring the Lin- 
nean name. 
Mr. Kippist has been so good as to examine carefully the spe- 
cimens of Asplenium Hemionitis and of Scolopendrium Hemionitis 
in the Linnean and Smithian Herbaria, at the apartments of the 
Linnean Society, and to communicate the following information, 
which is of more value than a bare description, especially as the 
figure represents all the essential characters. 
“There can be no doubt that Sir J. E. Smith is perfectly 
right in referring the Asplenium Hemionitis, L., to that genus 
instead of to Scolopendrium, as is done by Swartz, Willdenow, 
etc. The type specimen in the Linnzan Herbarium, which is 
in good fruit, named and numbered (‘ 2,’ to agree with the first 
edition of the Species Plant.) in Linnzeus’s own hand, is clearly 
an Asplenium, with long, slender, closely-placed lines of fructifi- 
cation, extending nearly to the midrib and indusia, bursting to- 
wards the apex of the leaf, or of the lobe on which they are 
placed. The fronds are truly palmate, scarcely longer than broad 
(five-lobed, with the two posterior lobes more or less rounded), 
and usually shorter than their slender glabrous petioles. This 
is the Asplenium palmatum of Lamarck, Willdenow, etc., and is 
also the plant figured under that name by Schkuhr (tab. 66), as 
well as by Tournefort (Instit. tab. 322 B.). On a ticket fastened 
to the sheet is the following memorandum, in a hand with which 
I am unacquainted, probably that of the correspondent from 
whom Linnzus received the specimen: ‘ Asplenium frondibus 
hastato-5-angularibus basi cordatis, stipitibus glabris. In monte 
alto, quo situm est castellum vetustum, prope Cintra Lusitanis.’ 
“ Of this plant, there are specimens more or less lobed in the 
Herbarium of Sir J. E. Smith; (1.) from the younger Linneeus’s 
Herbarium, without habitat ; (2.) two fronds, one of them ex- 
actly cordate in outline, though the tendency to produce lobes is 
shown by the arrangement of the sori near the base of the frond, 
in double rows, with indusia opening towards the two lateral 
nerves, instead of towards the apex of the frond; (3.) a young 
plant and two detached fronds, marked ‘ Broussonet, 1798, Al- 
giers?’ ‘They are all glued upon one sheet, on which is written, 
in Smith’s hand, ‘4. Hemionitis ?’ 
“Of the Scolopendrium Hemionitis of Willdenow, and (ex- 
