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few linear-triangular dark brown quickly deciduous scales. Lamina 

 firm but not coriaceous, glabrous, dim, evergreen, strapshaped-oblan- 

 ceolate or strapshaped-elliptical, longly tapering towards the base, and 

 acuminate at the apex, bipinnate or subbipinnate; lowest pair of pinnae 

 very minute and smaller than the succeeding pair, deltoid-ovate, pinnate 

 or pinnatipartite, more or less deflexed, the middle ones triangular- 

 ovate or oblong, spreading ; basal pinnules roundish, narrowed at the 

 base, somewhat palmately inciso-serrate, with mucronate teeth. Rachis 

 green, usually glabrous, margined, winged ; partial rachides broadly 

 winged so as to connect the bases of the pinnules. Pinnules with a 

 flexuous mid-vein which gives off simple branches running to the teeth. 

 Sori shortly oblong, often slightly curved, attached to the ultimate 

 veins nearer to the midrib of the pinnules than to their margin, often 

 ultimately confluent. Indusium entire or nearly so. Spores brown, 

 muricato-tuberculate, with short rather large pointed tubercles. 



On rocks and walls. A very doubtful native. On a garden wall at 

 Ashfield Lodge near Petersfield, Hants, Rev. W. H. Hawker ; on an old 

 garden wall at Furze Down, Tooting, Surrey (station now destroyed), 

 1845, Mr. Gibbs ; formerly on Amersham Church, Berks, found by 

 Mr. Bradney according to Hudson ; at " Swanage Cove, near Tillevilly, 

 Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, and between Lang-Vwlch and Tremaddock," 

 1852, Dr. Power, Moore; near Matlock, Derbyshire, Mr. H. Shep- 

 herd; rocks in Wharncliffe Wood, Yorkshire, 1838, Mr. R. M. Red- 

 head ; Northumberland, Mr. J. Backhouse, Bab. Man., but not included 

 in Baker's 'Flora of Northumberland and Durham,' 1868; rocks 

 near Alnwick Castle, T. Moore ; " Mr. Hudson gathered the same plant 

 in a stony situation near Wybourn in Westmoreland, or rather, perhaps, 

 Wiborne in Cumberland," Smith. " We have also been informed by 

 Mr. D. Hutchison, formerly gardener at Bexley Abbey, Kent, that he 

 has himself gathered this species in 1842, on moist rocks near the sea, 

 a short distance north-east of Stonehaven, Kincardineshire, in a spot 

 that has since been disturbed by the formation of the Aberdeen rail- 

 way, so that in 1849 be was not successful in refmding it." (Moore, Nat. 

 Print. Brit. Ferns, 8vo ed. vol. ii. 1863.) "Mr. W. 0. Needham of 

 Farnham, gave me the enclosed specimen of Asplenium fontanum, 

 which he informs me were gathered by himself on the Cave Hill near 

 Belfast, Co. Antrim, Ireland." (Edward Newman on label of specimen 

 purchased at sale of collection of Botanical Society of London.) Not 

 included in the ' Cybele Hibernica.' 



England? Scotland? Ireland? Perennial. Summer, Autumn. 



