TAB. CXLVII. 
ASPLENIUM OBOVATUM. 
FILICES.—GvmnaTx. Br.  PorvsopiACER. Kaulf. — Firtczs vere. Willd. 
Grex. Cnan. ZASPLENIUM, Linn. Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. 
ortum ducens, margine superiore libero. 2. 
Involucrum e vena lateraliter 
ASPLENIUM obovatum ; fronde lanceolata bipinnata, pinnis obovatis oblongisve plerisque confluen- 
p Pp 8 q 
tibus obsolete crenato-dentatis, soris distinctis. 
Asplenium obovatum. — Z"iviani Fl. Lib. Specim. p. 68. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 4. p. 88. 
Has. In Corsica; in Monte * La Trinita" Zviami. In rupibus prope Laconi. AMuller. 
Radix densissime csespitosa, e fibris numerosis, valde implicatis, ramosis, subtomentosis. 
S/pes uncialis ad biuncialem, erectus, flexuosus, superne viridis, basi nigro-fuscus, nitidus, nudus. 
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Frons digitalis ad palmarem, circumscriptione lanceolata, bipinnata, pinnis primariis horizontalibus, unciam longis, 
oblongis, basi pinnatis, superne pinnatifidis, pinnulis obovatis vel oblongis, vix petiolatis, obtusis, obsolete 
crenato-dentatis, laciniis rotundatis, obíusis. 
Sori oblongi, demum convexi, remoti, distincti, nunquam confluentes. 
Involucrum parvum, lineari-oblongum, demum capsulis numerosissimis obliteratum. 
Capsule globosse, longe pedicellatae. 
Semina globosa, fusca, marginata, margine, vel limbo, pellucido, crenato. 
Fig.1. Pinna. f.2. Capsule. f.3. Semina :—magn. auct. 
This is one of the many rare plants for which the Herbaria of European Botanists are indebted to 
the German « Unio Jtineraria." — Viviani first described it as a native of Corsica; and Muller (one 
of the collectors of the above-mentioned valuable Institution) detected it on rocks near Laconi in 
Greece. 
The general habit of the fully grown plant resembles the dsplenium lanceolatum ; but the acute 
segments to the pinnules and lobes of that plant will always distinguish them. In the younger 
specimens, before the pinnz are fully developed, they are simply pinnated, and in that state the 
plant has a great affinity with z4splenium viride. 
