TAD; COXX. 
ASPLENIUM ATTENUATU M. 
FILICES.—GvRATzx. Br. PorvropiACERX. Kaulf. Frinrczs vere. Willd., Spreng. 
GEN. CHan. -J4SPLENIUM, Linn. ori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. 
liter ortum ducens, margine superiore libero. 2. 
Involucrum e vena latera- 
ASPLENIUM atfenuatum ; frondibus linearibus, basi pinnatifidis supra. integerrimis, apice attenuata 
radicante. 5r. 
Asplenium attenuatum. Br. Prodr. FI. INov. Holl. v. 1. p.50. Spreng. Syst. eset. v. 4. p. 80. 
Has. Prope Port J ackson, i in Nova Hollandia. Jrown; Fraser. 
Caudex repens, crassitie penne anserinze, squamis nigris ubique tectus, radicosus. 
Stipites digitales et ultra, erecti, nigro-fusci, rigidi, hinc sulcati, sparse squamosi. 
Frondes spithameeze et ultra, plerumque erecti, lanceolatze, longe attenuatze, subcoriaceze, atro-virides, basi oblique 
dichotome nervosse, obtuse inciso-lobatz, inferne pinnatifidz, vel etiam pinnatz; Jobis vel pinnis late obcor- 
datis inciso-crenatis basi decurrentibus, dorso parce squamosse, squamis minutis atro-fuscis, basi piunatifidis 
reticulatis. Frondis apex nonnunquam radicans et ad terram descendens. 
Involucra sparsa, obliqua, linearia. 
Sori lineares. | 
Capsule globoss, sublonge stipitatze. 
Semina subglobosa, paululum angulata, atro-fusca. 
Fig. 1. Squamulz e fronde. f. 2. Capsule. f. 3. Semina:—magn. auct. 
Kaulfuss, not observing that Mr. Brown had already described an Z4splenium under the name 
of attenuatum, had given that appellation to a very different species from Brazil. The present 
plant is very unlike any that we are acquainted with, and remarkable in many of the specimens for 
the lower part of the frond being pinnated, the middle pinnatifid, and the extremity quite entire, 
much attenuated, and often rooting. 
