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with a double indusium. — Mountains of Alabama, and northward, — Fronds 

 2'- 5' high, with a winged greenish rachis, and a stipe nearly as long as the 

 frond. 



7. A. Ruta-muraria, L. Fronds small, ovate, pinnate above, bipinnate 



below, the divisions stalked, obovate-euneate, toothed at the apex; veins forked 

 from the base; fruit-dots few, indusia laciniate at the margin. — Rocks along 

 the mountains, and northward. — Fronds 2' -4' high. 



8. A. myriophyllum, Presl. Fronds delicately membranaceous, lan- 

 ceolate, narrowed below, 2-3-pinnate; ultimate segments obovate-oblong, en- 

 tire or 2-3-lobcd; veins single in each segment or lobe, bearing below the 

 middle a solitary oblong fruit-dot. (A. Anchorita, Chapm. MS.) — On the walls 

 of a limestone cave at Schurlock's Spring, Jackson Co., Florida, Cliapm. — 

 Fronds 3' -10' high, with short stipes and narrowly winged rachises. 



9. A. thelypteroides, Michx. Fronds ample, oblong-ovate, pinnate ; 

 the deeply pinnatifid pinnae lanceolate-acuminate from a broad sessile base; the 

 lower ones smaller, distant, and deflcxed ; the lobes oblong, obtuse, crenately 

 serrate; fruit-dots 8-12 to a lobe, at length confluent, those next the midrib 

 toward the ends of the pinna} mostly double; indusium convex, thickish. — 

 Rich woods in the upper part of Georgia, and northward. — Fronds l°-3° 

 high. 



§ 2. ATHYRIUM, Roth. — Indusium thin, attached to the upper side of the vein; 

 or recurved and crossing the vein, attached to both sides of it, thus becoming reni- 

 form or shaped like a horseshoe. 



10. A. Filix-fcemina, Bernh. Fronds ample, ovate-oblong ; pinnte lan- 

 ceolate, numerous ; pinnules oblong or lanceolate, doubly serrate or variously 

 incised ; fruit-dots short, at length confluent. (Aspidium Filix-fcemina, Swartz.) 

 — Low shady woods, Florida to Mississippi, and northward. — Fronds l°-3° 

 high. — A. asplenoides (Aspidium asplenoidcs, Swartz 1) is said to differ in hav- 

 ing a creeping caudex. 



12. CYSTOPTERIS, Bernhardt 



Fruit-dots round, on the back of the free forking veins, covered when young 

 by a thin ovate or roundish hood-shaped indusium attached by the lower side 

 rather beneath the fruit-dot, its apex pointing toward the end of the vein, at 

 length reflexed or falling away. — Delicate Ferns with 2-3-pinnate fronds, and 

 short creeping rootstocks. 



1. C. fragilis, Bernh. Fronds ovate-oblong, bipinnate; the ovate-lance- 

 olate pinna; mostly opposite, the lowest pair distant, smaller ; pinnules oblong 

 or obovate, cuneate at the base and decurrent on the winged secondary rachis, 

 variously toothed or incised ; indusium ovate, acuminate. (Aspidium tenue, 

 Swartz.) — Moist rocks on the mountains of North Carolina, and northward. — 

 Fronds 4'- 8' long, on slender brownish stipes as long as the frond. Pinnules 

 varying greatly in shape and size. 

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