104 OUR NATIVE FERNS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



shorter; stipes black and polished, as is the lower part of the 

 midrib, especially beneath. Schuylkill River, above Manayunk, 

 Pennsylvania {Scoff) ; Havana, Alabama {Miss Tutwiler} ; 

 Canaan, Connecticut {Adani) ; near Poughkeepsie, New York 

 {Lown), Jackson County, Illinois {Patterson}. 



*** Fronds once pinnate. 

 t PinncE J-' ' long, mostly blunt. 

 \ Rachis chestnut-brown or blackish. 



4. A. ebeneum Ait. Stipes tufted, 3' 6' long, chestnut- 

 brown, nearly naked; fronds 8' 16' long, linear-lanceolate; 

 pinnae 20 40, lanceolate, subfalcate, or the lower oblong, ' i' 

 long, the dilated base auricled on the upper or both sides; 

 sori often 10 12 on each side. {A. trichomanoides Michx.) 

 Florida and Kentucky northward to Canada. 



5. A. parvulum Mart. & Gale. Fronds tufted, erect, 

 rigid, 4' 10' long, narrowly linear-lanceolate ; stipe and rachis 

 black and shining; pinnae numerous, oblong, obtuse, entire or 

 crenulate, auricled on the upper side, nearly sessile; middle 

 pinnae longest, the lower gradually shorter and deflexed ; sori 

 short, abundant. {A. cbcncutn var. minus, Hook., A. resilicns 

 Kunze.) Virginia, South Carolina, and Florida to Arkansas and 

 New Mexico. 



6. A. trichomanes L. Stipes densely tufted, purple- 

 brown, shining; fronds 3' 8' long, $ or more broad, linear ; 

 pinnae 15 30 pairs, nearly opposite, roundish-oblong or oval, 

 the two sides unequal, obliquely wedge-truncate at the base, at- 

 tached by a narrow point, the edge slightly crenate, the mid- 

 vein forking and evanescent; sori 3 6 on each side of the mid- 

 rib. {A. melanocaiilon Willd.) Eastern United States to the 

 Pacific coast. 



Var. jncisum Moore. Fronds larger, often |-' or more 

 broad, pinnae more or less deeply incised. California, Vermont. 



7. A. monanthemum L. Stipes densely tufted, 3' 6' 

 long, chestnut-brown ; fronds 6' 12' long, narrow, with 20 40 

 pinnae on each side ; pinnae crenate above, abruptly narrowed 

 at base, often auricled, the lower much reduced; texture sub- 

 coriaceous; veins flabellate; sori i 2, linear-oblong, parallel 



