Asplenium.| FILICES. 605 
scales of 2—3”. Stip. close, 3—6’ long, more or less fibrillose with 
ferruginous hair- like scales which are often laciniate at the base. Frond 
coriaceous , dark-green, ovate-lanceolate, 4—12‘ long, bipinnate 
rarely tripinnate with a pinnatifid apex, the rhachis fibrillose. Pinn 
each side, shortly stalked, 1}/2—24/2' ~~ nae , rhomboidal or 
oblong te or pinnules which are again serrate or dentate above. get 
as before, flabellate without leading vein in the segments and pinnules. 
to near the top and soon confluent; primary sori only in the less ages 
pinnae, near the apex, 3—4" long. Invol. pointed at both en 
frequent on og gue ‘anae Mts.; Kauai! sug sa * serpent eg eer 
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at elevations of 2000—6' ., generally in open, exposed p me: «lwaiw 
© kane». Widely proenane through the tropical and a sence ae of the Weike 
d. 
_ A. dissectum, Brack. Fil. U. 8S. E. E. p. 170, pl. 24. — Rhizome 
aon ae: with few short lanceolate dark-brown scales at the end. 
close, long and slender, purplish brown, shining, sparingly 
oe with deciduous short reddish hair-like scales which are riate 
near the base. Frond dark green, opaque when dry, thin chartaceous, 
open, oblong-lanceolate in outline, not narrowing below, 12—26’ long, 
a 
lowest pinnae not longer than the next upper and 2— 
Pinnae about 20 on a side, alternate, erecto- patent, long- pate (4—10“), 
ovate-lanceolate, finely acuminate, with a slender, not compressed, fibril- 
lose rhachis; the upper basal pinnule parallel to the main rhachis, the 
‘lower at nearly half the distance between the two upper and deflected 
outward; the incisures below the apex at angles of 5° or less. Sec ondary 
pinnae 11/2—3¢ long, cut in the manner of A. furcatum. Tertiary pinnae 
cuneate-obovate, 3—5"“ long, stipitate, pointed or subtruncate and two- 
to several-toothed at the top, the largest more or less deeply cut into 2 or 
3 pointed or cuneate and bi-, trifid segments. Veins obscure, forking 
without a leading nerve, Sxoorrent to the apex, generally 2 to an ultimate 
segment. Sori short (1‘'), on the ultimate branchlets, one to a lacinia or 
segment, or 3—10 to a pinnule, not opening face to face. Invol. firm, 
rather vaulted. Spores tuberculate and margined or winged. — No gemmae, 
— Hook. Sp. Fil. II, 189. — Synops. Fil. p. 214. 
Hawaii! Kohala range and Mauna Kea; Kauai! mountains of Waimea (Kn. and 
win). If in the Sp. Fil. a coriaceous frond and involucres openin; 
g toward ea 
other are attributed to this species, I apprehend that specimens of A. sanaontianee were 
