66o CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES. 



ASPLENIUM. Gen.pL 1178. . 

 Fruofificationes in lineolis difci frondis fpariso 

 * Fronde Jtmplici. 

 fcohpendri' ASPLENIUM frondibui fimpHcibus cordato-lin- 

 ^^ ^ gulatis, integerrimis, ftipitibus hirfutis. Sp. pL 



1537. {Ger. em. 1138./. i. Moris, hifi.f. 14. -f- 

 I./. I. Blarkmdl t. 138.; 

 Hart*s-Tongue. Anglis. 

 It grows in ftony and fliady places, as in Vunglafs- 



Den, &c. Dr. Parfons, %, 

 The leaves are lanceolate, and about a foot long, 

 of a tough and firm texture, the angles at the 

 bafe rounded or femicordate. The ftalk and 

 middle rib is covered with brown, membrana- 

 ceous, narrow fcales. The frudlifications grow 

 in parallel lines on the under furface, at a little 

 lefs than right angles with the rib ; narrow at 

 firft, and covered with a pale, membranaceous 

 pellucid involucrum, which burfts when the 

 capfules become tum'fd, and then the lines are 

 much wider, and the capfules globular and fuf- 

 cous, each furrounded with an articulated ring, 

 and containing a fingl^feed. 

 There are feveral varieties of this plant taken no- 

 tice of by authors. 

 P» The firft has its leaves divided into many fegments 

 at the top J this may be feen figured in Ger. em: 

 p. 1138./. 2. Cff Moris. hiji,f. 14, /. i./. 2.) 

 Fipgered Hart's Tongue. Jnglis, 



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