TAB. LXXII 



ASPLENIUM DENTATUM 



FILICES. GYRATiE. Br. 



PoLYPODiACEiE. Kaulf. Filices verae. Willd., Spreng 



Gen. Char. ASPLENIUM, Linn. Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Involucrum e vena lateraliter 



ortum ducens, margine superiore libero. 



Br. 





Asplenium dentatum ; fronde lineari-oblonga glabra pinnata, pinnis rhombeo-ovatis dentatis cre 



tisque deorsum attenuatis integris. 



Asplenium dentatum. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1 540. Swartz. Syn. Fil. p. 80. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 5.p.3 



Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 86. 



Trichomanes latifolium dentatum. 



Plum. Fil.p. 58. t. 101./. C. 



Hab 



In Jamaica. Swartz 



Hispaniola. Pl\ 



Ex Insula Jamaicae communicaverunt 





D. Wiles et Bancroft 



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Badix caespitosa, fibrosa," fibris magis minusve longis, tortuosis, fuscis, plerumque hirsutis. 



Stijpites plurimi ex eadem radice, duas vel tres uncias longi, nonnunquam etiam palmares, fusco-virides, com- 



pressi, glabri, superne marginati. 



Frondes, circumscriptione, oblongo-lineares, tri-quadripollicares et ultra, pinnatae, pinnis remotis, glabris, rhombeo- 



ovatis, obtusis, antice irregulariter crenato-dentatis, deorsum oblique cuneatis, attenuatis, integerrimis. Rachis 

 compressa, alata. 



Involucra in venis lateralibus, lineari-oblongis. 



Capsulce sphaericae, sublonge pedicellatae. 



Semina ovali-rotundata, limbata, limbo crenato. 



Fig. 1. Pinna cum soris. f. 2. Capsulae. f. 3. Semina: — magn. auct. 





Plumier, who appears to have first detected this Fern in the little island called La Tortue, 

 situated to the north of the Port de Paix in St. Domingo, tells us that this plant varies in size and 

 luxuriance very much, according to its situation upon wet or dry rocks. 





It will rank near to the Aspl. viride and A. Trichomanis of our country 



