Cunninghamiane. N. O. Filices. 
DCCCCXIV. 
ASPLENIUM ATTENUATUM, Br. 
Frondibus lineari-oblongis longe tenuiterque attenuatis (apice — 
sepe proliferis) lobato-pinnatifidis basi subpinnatis apice in- 
tegerrimis, pinnis lobisque subrotundatis omnibus serrato- 
dentatis, stipitibus paleaceo-hirsutis, caudice repente. 
Asplenium attenuatum. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 50. 
Hook. et Grev. Ic. Fil. Tab. 209. 
Has. New Holland; Port J: ackson, Brown, Fraser ; dry shady 
woods, Brisbane river, Allan Cunningham. 
This species, though not new, seems of rare occurrence, and 
in the specimens before us, from Brisbane river, gathered by 
the late Allan Cunningham, shows itself under a new form, 
that of a proliferous plant, throwing out roots and young 
fronds from the long attenuated apices whenever they touch 
the soil. The scales of the stipes, though, when seen with the 
naked eye, looking like chaffy hair, are, as rey ted y 
in Icones Filicum, above quoted, subulate, dark brown, mem- 
branaceous, coarsely reticulated, with four divaricated subulate 
segments at the base. As a species, this is very distinct 
from any other we are acquainted with. The sori occupy 
nearly the centre of the lobes or pine, between the costa and 
the margin. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a fructified frond, seen from beneath :— 
magnified, 
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