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Asplenium.| FILICES. 
in the lowest pinnae assumes a short downward sweep, as is common in 4. faleatum, 
Some of the semi-incised forms pane reir be aisingulse pends Natal forms of A, serra 
Fisch. & Langsd., if it were not for the short distant lower pinnae in the 
latter, for in our species the lowest pinnae are only slightly shorter than those next. 
above and not moreremote. Through the deeply lobed Paste it passes directly into no, 24. 
var. sectum. — Frond large, about 3 ft. long and stout, with a fibrillose 
rhachis, the pinnae 3—4‘ X 1/2—%/«‘, linear- oblong, broadest at the base, 
deeply cut, except at the apex, into oblong and Shovste segments which 
are rounded at the top and sharply many-toothe 
u! E. Maui! — This var. approaches A. horridum, but 
ach sao and cle are secondary sori on most lobes, which are not truneate as i 
e primary sori ewig 
labrous variety of that, 
The supposition woul 
a exists. oa ow ever, udatum 
which have been followed s by most writers, ss og ihoecve to our pla I have 
if not the aie plant, 
hierar to abide by their crceackaine: A, Aneitense, Carruth., 
stands next to it 
Pee A. horridum, Kaulf. Enum. Fil. p. 173. — Rhizome shorter. Stip 
stout, 6—12‘ long, shaggy with dark- brown paleaceous hair 
h ike 
k- brown, 
Naas which toward the base changes to larger scales wi 
points. Frond coriaceous, dark-green, lanceolate-oblong, broadest at the 
as 18—36/  4—10‘, pinnate, with pinnatifid apex; the rhachis hairy. 
Pinnae 24—48 on each side, closely set, stipitate (1— 11/2), abscisso- 
eneerit at the base, the middle ones 2—6' X cae! linear- lanceolate, 
gradually acuminate, cut at angles of 3 30—40° to one half or more into 
numerous nearly equal oblong obliquely truncate oe which are sub- 
entire or obtusely dentate at the top. Veins obscure, repeatedly forking, 
but not very close, the trunk of each system rising in the prolongation 
of the preceding sinus, and the first branch parallel to the costa as far as 
s lobe, where it suddenly deflects. imary : i 
branch, 2—3” long, not imbricate, forming 
of the costa and contiguous to it; secondary 
in deeper cut pinnae and few (1—3) to a lobe. 
at both ends. — Hook. Sp. rig III, 153, tab. 193. — Hook. & Arn, Bot. Beech. 
p. 106. — Synops. Fil. p. — Brack. Fil. U. S. E. E. p. 158. — Metten. 
Asplen. p. 150. — A. abeee bt BL. 
Kauai! Molokai! Maui! Nat. name: «<Iwa>. — 
olds also two 
ahu! Pauoa and elsewhere ; 
y collection 
i 
ahiti, in Poor the Sains 
sori wr 5) plete so as nearly to — nag next upper 
