TtveediancBn 



N. O. Filices. 



TAB. ccxxir. 



ASPLENIUM PARVULUM. 



Humile, frondibus laxe caespitosis simplicibus stlpitatis ovato- 

 rhombeis sublobatis crenatis glabris, soris obloiigis obliquis, 

 stipite glabro ad basin solummodo paleaceo*squamoso. 



Hab. South Brazil. Tweedie. 



This is one of the smallest of the Genus with which I am 



acquainted, the whole plant scarcely exceeding two inches in 



height. Of this the stipes occupies about one half; it is slender, 



pale brown. Several stipites arise from one point, (so as to be 

 loosely caespitose,) perhaps from a small caudex which bears 

 pale brown scales, and from beneath sends out fibrous root-s. 



The frond is between ovate and rhomboidal, obtuse, the margin 

 irregularly lobed and crenated- From an obscure central nerve 

 or costa diverge several lateral ones, on which the oblong fructi- 

 fications are situated on each side, but near the centre. 



The lower figure represents the underside of a frond, magnified 

 to about twice its natural size. 



