TAB. XCII. 



ASPLENiUM FGENICULACEUM. 



FILICES.— Gyrat;e. Br. Polypodiace^. Kaulf. Filices vera. Willd., Spreng. 



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



ortum ducens, margine supcriore libero. Br. 



Asplenium fceniculaceum ; frondibus triplicato-pinnatis, pinnulis anguste linearibus acutissimis, 



soris solitariis. 



Asplenium fceniculaceum. Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v.\.p.\3. Ejusd. Syn. Pl. jEq. p. 80. 

 Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 90. 



Asplenium delicatulatum. Presl. Reliq. Hamk. p. 47. t. 7. / 3 ? 



Hab. In umbrosis Novae Andalusiae, locis temperatis. Humboldt. In Cordilleris Quitensibus ? 

 Hcenke. In truncis arborum locis sylvestribus ad declivitatem occidentalem montis Pichincha, 

 regno Quitensi. JD. Jameson. 



Caudex repens, filiformis, pilosus, hic illic radiculosus, fibris capillaribus ramosis hirtis. 



Stipites plurimi, ex eodem puncto, digitales et ultra, erecti, graciles, glabri, basi fuscescentes, subteretes, dein 



virides, hinc canaliculati, superne marginati. 



Frondes, circumscriptione ovato-acuminatae, basi truncatae, triplicato-pinnatae, glabrae, pallide virides, segmentis 



ultimis seu pinnulis angustis, linearibus, acutissimis, superne bipinnatae. Rachis universalis partialisque 

 ubique glabrae, margine alatae. 



Sori oblongo-lineares, solitarii, et, ob angustatem laciniarum, non raro prope marginem siti, ut in subgenere 



Darece, Sm. (Ccenopteridis, Swartz.) 

 Involucrum membranaceum, albidum. 

 Capsulce sphaericae, longe pedicellatae. 

 Semina subangulata, intense fusca. 

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



Sent to us by our valued correspondent Mr. Jameson, who gathered the specimen on the western 

 declivity of the mountain Pichincha, where Humboldt and Bonpland discovered some of their most 

 valuable plants. We find it to agree entirely with the Aspl. foeniculaceum of Humboldt and 

 Kunth ; and we scarcely know whether to consider the Aspl. delicatulum of Presl. in Reliquice 

 Hcenkeana, to be otherwise than a starved variety of it. It is also nearly allied to Asplenium 

 fragrans of Swartz (a Jamaica plant), and to the East Indian Asplenium concinnum of Wallich, but 

 has narrower and more distantly placed pinnae. The sori are almost exactly as in the Darea of 

 Smith, ( Ccenopteris of Swartz) . 



