910 



FILICES. (FERN FAMILY.) 



Fig. 436. 



Lower 



Aspidium 



A. aculeatum, L. 2( .6 to .1; root- 

 stock thick, densely clothed with brown, 

 scarious, ovate, tapering scales. Stipe short ; 

 axes clothed with tawny, scarious scales; frond 

 oblong-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, bi- 

 pinnatisect; pinnae oblong-lanceolate, taj^er- 

 ing; pinnules trapezoidal, unequally spiny- 

 dentate, mucronate at tip, the lowest some- 

 what pedicelled, the upper confluent; sori in 

 two rows, parallel to midrib — July — Woods; 

 Amanus, and northward. 



14. NEPHRODIIJM, Rich. Nephrodium. 



Sori orbicular, in rows or scattered. In- Fia. 437. 



dusium before maturity hemispherical-reni- 

 form, with an umbilicate centre. Stipe con- 

 tinuous with root-stock. 



1. IV. rigiduin, Sw. 2( .8 to 1.2; root- 

 stock thick. Stipe and rachis green, clothed 



with buff-colored, scarious scales; frond ob- Pinnule of Xephrodiumrigidum 



long-lanceolate, tapering but little at base, alternately bipinnate ; pin- 

 nae oblong-lanceolate, acuminate; pinnules oblong-lanceolate, at base 

 of pinna pinnatisect into rounded toothed lobes, toward apex undivid 

 ed, denticulate. Sori in 2 rows near margin 

 j!iTarch to September — 



Var. australe, Boiss. Lower pinnules more pinnatisect. Indu- 

 slum often glabrous — - Shady places. 



2. N. Filix-]IIa§, L. Fig. 438. 

 71 Male Fern. Es-sarTchas- 

 edh-clhakar. . 3 to 1 ; root- 

 stock thick, oblique, den- 

 sely clothed with tawny 

 scales. Stipe more or less 



chaffy; frond oblong-Ian- (.) An upper pinna of ^^ephrodium Filix-Mas. 



ceolate, tapering at both obtusum. (J) Two pinnules of a lower pinna. 



ends, bipinnatisect; pinnae oblong to oblong-lanceolate, tapering; pin- 

 nules oblong, truncate, confluent at base, crenate-toothed at apex ; sori 

 on lower pinnules in two rows, on upper few, scattered -- July — 



indusium glandular — 



Yar. 



Var. obtusum. Post. Fronds oblong, slightly tapering, 

 nse oblong, obtuse — Woods ; Amanus. 



Pin- 



Fig. 439. 



3. ^. Thelypteris, L. 2j: .3 to .8 



or more ; root-stock slender^ creeping. Stipe 



long, slender, naked, polished ; frond oblong, 



acutish at both ends, bipinnatisect ; pinnse 



oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, axis 



naked ; pinnules confluent at base, in sterile 



fronds oblong, acute, entire, in fertile 



fronds triangular, owing to rolling in of 



margins; sori in two rows, at length confluent — May and June 



Antilebanon, one hour east of Kefr Hfineh. 



Upper pinna of Nepbrodium 

 Thelypteria. 



