ASPLENIUM. 1 



down. The young partially-developed 

 heads looking like a bundle of soft curled 

 ends. The barren fronds widest and 

 shortest. The fertile come out later, and 

 then only when long transplanted. Sori 

 towards the margin, and brought seem- 

 ingly yet nearer to it by the fertile pin- 

 nulets being most turned over. May. 

 Deciduous. A marsh plant, not uncom- 

 mon in boggy places. Rather difficult to 

 remove, on account of its fibrous and 

 straggling root, but doing well if duly 

 supplied with moisture. Best trans- 

 planted small. 



ASPLENIUM. 



Sori on the back, in oblique lines. Indusium 

 attached on the outer side. Root tufted in all. 



ASPLENIUM ADIANTUM NIGBUM. (Black Spleen- 

 ivort.} Fig. 11. From 3 to 6 inches, when 

 found on walls, from thence to 20 when 

 on shady hedge-banks. Growing in rather 

 circular masses. Frond oblong-triangular. 

 Pinnae from about half-way up, alternate, 

 oblong-triangular, the lower inclining to 

 turn horizontally, and slant upwards. Pin- 

 nules thick, leathery, shining, pointedly- 

 toothed, broad-stalked, irregularly wedge- 

 shaped, and tapering again towards their 



