TAB. CLXXX. 
ASPLENIUM MAGELLANICUM. 
EHICES -Gruars. Br.  PoryroprACsx. Kaulf. | Frriczs vere. Willd. 
GEN. Cuan. J4SPLENIUM, Linn. Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Znvolucrum e vena lateraliter 
ortum ducens, margine superiore libero. Zr. 
AsPLENIUM magellanicum ; frondibus czspitosis bi-tripinnatis, pinnulis subcuneatis 3—4-partitis, 
laciniis obovatis obtusis apice denticulatis, glabris, rachi stipiteque glaberrimis. 
Asplenium magellanicum. | Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 175. Spreng. Syst. eset. v. 4. p. 88. 
Has. In terra Magellanica. Commerson (ex Aaulf.). In Chile, Don Chamisso, Gillies, ubi 
etiam, apud * Conception;" legit 7Macrae. 
Jiadia csespitosa, fibrosa, fibris ramosis, subtomentosis. 
Stipites plurimi ex eadem radice, digitales, erecti, tereti-compressi, hinc canaliculati, glabri, virides, inferne nigres- 
centes ubi etiam paleaceo-squamosi. 
Frondes glaberrimze, stipitis longitudine, deltoideo-ovatee, subattenuatze, bi- et (parte inferiore) non raro tripinnata. 
| — Pinne primarize ovate, petiolate. —Pinnule subsemiuncianr longs, petiolatee, cuneatze, bi- tri- nunc quadri- 
lobatze fere pinnatifidee, lobis vel segmentis plerumque obovatis, apice obtusis, nonnunquam emarginatis, den- 
ticulatis. 
Sori solitarii in singulo lobo pinnularum, oblongi. 
Involucrum latiusculum, membranaceum. 
Capsule numerose, subglobosze, longe pedicellatze, pedicellis capsula duplo triplove longioribus. 
Semina oblongo-ovalia, fusca, limbo pellucido cincta. 
Fig. 1. Pinnula fructifera. f.2. Capsule. f.3. Semina:—magn. auct. 
This is, indeed, as its original describer observes, allied to "Asplenium. Füuta muraria; but the 
frond is longer, more attenuated, more frequently divided, with ultimate segments smaller aud less 
decidedly cuneate. 
The specimens here figured were communicated by the Horticultural Society from that valuable 
part of their Herbarium formed by their collector Mr. Macrae. 
