384 CUYPTOGAMIA— FILICES. [Asptdium. 



2. A. lohdtum, S\v. (^close-leaved prickly Shield-fern) ; fronds 

 oblong-lanceolate bipiiiiiate, pinnules riafid convex ovate sub- 

 lunate acuminate aristate oblique and cuueated at the base and 

 decurrent, the margins faintly serrated spinulose, with a dis- 

 tinct tooth at the base on the upper side, the one next the 

 main rachis longer than the rest, stipes and rachis more or less 

 chaffy, fructifications confined to the upper half of the fronds. 



B. Bot. t. 1563. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 290 A. aculeatum, Willd — 



Hook. Br. Fl. ed. 1, p. 443. — ■^. lonchitidoides ; small, the pin- 

 nules combined so as to form only a pinnate frond — Filix 

 lonchitidi affinis, Raii Syn. ed. 3, p> 121. — A. aculeatum, 13. E. 

 Fl. V. \v. ji. 290. 



Moist woods, shady banks, and rooky places. 



3. A. acnledium, S\v. (soft pricJiljj Sliield-fern); fronds broadly 

 lanceoliite bipinnate, pinnules subrigid somewhat convex slightly 

 petioled ovato-sublunate acuminate or acute aristate obliquely 

 truncate and auricled at the base on the upper side, the one 

 next the main rachis somewhat larger than tlie rest, the mar- 

 gins distinctly serrated and spinulose, stipes and rachis chaffy, 

 fructifications copious. E. Bot.t. 1562, (bad). E. Fl. v. xv.p. 

 290, (excl. syn. var. /3.). 



Woods and heilge-banks in Eno:land. Lancashire ? Mr W. Wilson. 

 Abundant in a hedge-bank near Henfield, Mr Borrer. 



4. A. anguldre, Sm. and Willd. {cingular-haved Shield -feni); 

 fronds broadly lanceolate bipinnate, pinnules thin and mem- 

 branaceous plane petioled ovate sublunate obtuse aristate ob- 

 liquely truncate at the base with a large auricle on the upper 

 side, the margins deeply serrated spinulose, the lowermost ones 

 often deeply pinnatifid, that next the main rachis scarcely larger 

 than the rest (excepting in var. /3.), stipes and rachis very 

 chaffy, fructifications copious. E. Fl. v. iv. p. 291. E. Bot. 

 Siippl. t. '277 &. — A. aculeatum, /3. Fl. Br. p. 1 122.— J. lobatum, 

 Willd.? — Hook. Br. Fl. ed. \. p. 443. — 3. subtripinnate, pin- 

 nules, especially the lower ones, and the much larger one next 

 the main rachis, distinctly pinnate. 



Woods and licdge-banks, frequent in England, as far north as York- 

 shire, {Dr Greville.') N. Wales, Mr W. Wilson. Mr Boicman. 

 Colin Glen, Belfast, Mr J". Druuimond. — j3. with the last. — Of this 

 plant I possess specimens from Mr Wiabam of Norwich, who was so 

 much in tlie habit of consulting Sir J. E. Sniilii, when any difficulty 

 occurred in the naming of a species, that I have every reason to believe 

 the present to be the plant so called in E. Flora. It is, too, what is 

 generally considered A. aodeatum by Britisli Botanists, and lias hence 

 on)}' been placed in opposition to A. lubatuni, Sm., from which, at 

 first sight, and in essential character, it certainl}- appears distinct; but after 

 a most careful examination of numerous specimens I am compelled to 

 say that there is a third kind, the A. aculeatum o\' E. FL, which does 

 partake of the characters of the other two, and which some refer to A. 

 lobatum, and others as confidently to A. aculeatum. Hence, as it ap- 



