88 ENGLISH BOTAXY. 



N. Foenisecii, Loice, Cambr. Phil. Trans. Vol. IV. p. 7. 



Aspidium femulum, Swartz (1800). Milcle, Fil. Europ. p. 140. Babenh. 1. c. No. 117. 



A. recurvum, Bree, Phyt. 1843, p. 773. 



A. dilatatum, var. recurvuni, Bree, Mag. Nat. Hist. Vol. IV. p. 162. Hook. & Am. Brit. 



Fl. ed. viii. p. 586. 

 A. spinulosum, var. y, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. vii. p. 586. 

 Polypodium femulum, Ait. Hort. Kew. Vol. III. p. 466. 

 Lophodium recurvum, Newm. Phyt. 1851, p. 371. 

 L. Foenisecii, Newm. Phyt. 1851, App. p. xvi. ; and Hist. Brit. Ferns, ed. iii. p. 136. 



Caudex short, stout, separating into numerous small divisions, which 

 are moderately thick, very short, and closely packed together, closely 

 covered by the imbricated bases of former fronds, marked with dark 

 stripes in the interior when cut longitudinally. Fronds all similar, 

 several produced close together from the extremity of each crown, 

 ascending or slightly arching backward, evergreen. Stipes rather 

 long, from one-third as long to a little longer than the lamina, 

 rather stout, distinctly but not deeply channelled on the face, con- 

 taining 5 vascular bundles, thickly sprinkled with minute sessiie 

 glands, and sparingly clothed with a few lanceolate and strapshaped 

 acuminate denticulate and partially laciniate rather dark brown, 

 concolorous scales, which are partially deciduous. Lamina firm, but 

 not at all coriaceous, bright green, thickly sprinkled both above and 

 below with minute sessile subglobular glands, triangular or deltoid- 

 triangular, or more rarely triangular-lanceolate, tapering gradu- 

 ally towards the apex, truncate at the base, tripinnate or quadri- 

 pinnate ; lowest pair of pinnae very unequally triangular, with several 

 of the basal pinnules on the lower side of the secondary rachis much 

 longer than those on the upper side, longer than the succeeding pair 

 (rarely a little shorter), the others becoming gradually shorter 

 towards the apex of the frond, shortly stalked, bipinnate ; pinnules 

 triangular-oblong or strapshaped-concave ; those towards the base of 

 the lamina stalked and pinnate, those towards the apex of the frond 

 separate from each other, and pinnatipartite or incised, and then 

 adnate by a narrow base and decurrent on the lower side. Ultimate 

 pinnules or lobes with the apices incurved, inciso-serrate, with the 

 teeth not incurved, more or less distinctly mucronate ; ultimate 

 veins not impressed on the upper surface, all running to the teeth 

 of the ultimate segments. Sori occupying the whole frond, attached 

 to the back of the first anterior branch of the ultimate mid-veins, 

 forming a line on each side of the ultimate pinnules or ultimate seg- 

 ments, about equidistant from the mid-vein and the margin of the 



