152 ASPLENIUM LANCEOLATUM, 



Asplenium Perreymondii, Balbis. 



" rotundatum, Kaulfuss. Pbesl. 



Polypodium adiantifuUum, PoiRET. 



Tarachia lanceolata, Pbesl. 



Asplenium — Spleenwort. Lanceolatum — Lanceolate. 



This species is found more or less in the neighbourhood of 

 the sea. 



A native of Cornwall, abundant about the Land's End and 

 Penzance, and found at St. Ives and Enys Penryn. In Devon- 

 shire on Morwell Eocks, on the banks of the Tamar and 

 Plym, Eickley Vale, Marwood, Shaugh, Lynmouth, Buckland 

 Monachorum, Tavistock, Salconibe, and Torquay. In Somer- 

 setshire at Selworthy, etc. In Sussex and Kent, at Tunbridc^e 

 Wells. In Gloucestershire, at Frenchay, Beechly, and near 

 Stapleton. In Wales, in Pembrokeshire, Glamorganshire, 

 Merionethshire, Carnarvonshire, and Denbighshire. 



In Ireland, only found at Kinsale, Cork, where it was 

 discovered by Mr. J. Woods. 



Also found in Guernsey, Jersey, Scilly, and Ramsay Islands. 



Abroad it is a native of Madeira, Azores, Algiers, Tangier, 

 Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and France. 



A handsome Fern, easily grown in a well-drained compost 

 of peat loam and sand. It requires a sheltered situation, and 

 a mild climate, and detests excessive moisture. 



The fronds vary from four inches to eighteen inches in 

 length, are rigid, and of a brilliant green colour. 



Lanceolate and pinnate. 



Pinna? ovate-lanceolate, broadest at the base, and narrowing 

 to the apex, scarcely stalked, the lower more distant. 



Pinnules obovate, obliquely-ovate, somewhat cuncate at the 

 base. In the large fronds the pinnules are jjinnatifid below, 

 with mucronately-toothed lobes. 



Stipes brief, about one third of the length of the frond, 

 dark chcsnut-colourcd below, the dark colour extending: alonsr 

 the back of the rachis. 



Stipes and rachis sparingly scaly. 



Cavidex brief, thick, tufted, and densely scaly. 



