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Asplenium. | FILICES. 613 
& patent proliferous. Spores papillate. Nos. 35—36. 
. A. Fenzlianum, Luerssen, in Flora, 1875, p. 434. — Rhizome « short 
etre ». Stip. crowded, stramineous or pale brown when a a 
long, thickly clothed at the base with dark, opaque, almost black, linear- 
lanceolate, not capillary, scales of 5—9” in length (paleae “gee atae). 
Frond shies pHid: thin chartaceous, sca: lanceolate, moderately con- 
tracting below, broadest near the middle, 1!/2—2'/2 ft. long, pinnate, pinna- 
tifid at the apex with falcate segments; the rhachis fibrillose or naked 
and often proliferous near the apex with one or two gemmae. Pinnae 18—30 
on a side, often all opposite, the lower ones always so, shortly but dis- 
tinctly stipitate (?/s—1”), linear-lanceolate, 3—7‘ X 1/2—11/2‘, the lower 
ae 
ones slightly narrowing toward the even-sided truncate base, cut from 
denticulate, nearly equal lobes of 2—4” in breadth, Veins excurrent, 
pinnate with 3—8 pairs of simple veinlets to a lobe, the lowest slightly 
curving, at angles of 30° with their costule, the costule at 60—70° with 
the midrib. Sori generally on all veins, equidistant from costule and edge, 
the first anterior diplazoid and 1'/2—3” long. Invol. thin, broad and 
flat, o t both ends. Spores minutely papilla ate. — Wawra’s plant 
pinnae, squarely truncate about the middle of the frond, becomes sub- 
ctindate in the lowest ogi pinnae, but recedes slightly in both 
halves on the upper on 
m, Pr., an Jap icum, Thu by he FI. Vit 
under Diplazium decussatum, J. Sm. (D. congruum, .). To every one of these speci 
it bears a considerable resemblance, and I should ioe hesitate to unite it with A. syl 
vaticum, as a deeper-cut variety, if it were not for the re ifference in the rhizome 
e€ abov Hos ab character for this is from Wawra’s 2 My llection is without 
h but it grein ne apical portion of one in which the involute frondlets, 
completély hidden by lack scales, ber of 
partly confirms a , but the thickness of it, 4”, and the presence of two closely 
set frondlets would be compatible with a decumbent oa, y speaks 
against a wide-creeping rhizome. From A. Japonicum it differs i haracter of the 
Seales, also rhizome, number of pinnae, and their eamelite eyen- -sided base , from 
Dipl. decussatum, J. Sm., in the stipitate pinnae. — Extreme forms differ 
ap ens from Makai pinnae broad and only slightly 
Taeniopteridis, would hardly i: on. first species as 
Lanai, in which the pinnae are 11/2‘ broad near the middle and only 1‘ at the base, 
while their largest segments are  Moaseobienie with 8 pairs of veinlets at athe more 
open angles in a nervatio Pecopteridis. 
. A. marginale, sp. n. — Caudex erect, about 6‘ high and 1—2‘ thick. 
stip. 1—2 ft. long, stout, dull, lurid- brown when dry, sparingly paleaceous 
in the lower portion with a few thin light- brown lanceolate finely acu- 
minate scales of 5—8”, or furfuraceous (paleae eystopteroideae). Frond 
