THE SPLEENWORTS. 



THE LADY FERN. 



Athyrium Filix-famina.* EOTH. 



The genus Atliyrium holds a place between the 

 Aspidice (or Shield Ferns) and the Asplenice (or 

 Spleen worts). Its generally elongated sori mark it, 

 however, as belonging rather to the latter group, 

 though there is a sufficient approach to the roundish 

 kidney shape of Lastrea to account for its having been 

 also attributed to the former. It is, nevertheless, not 



* Polypodiura Filix-foemina (Linnaeus), Aspidium Filix-foemina, 

 Asplenium Filix-fojmina, Cystopteris Filix-fojmina, &c. 



