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l)ut following the coasts of France and Spain, it extends south to the Canary 

 Islands. It appears in Tangiers (Oounn in Herb. Nosfr.), on tlie African coast, 

 and in the western islands of the Mediterranean. I possess specimens from 

 New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, from Ca'pt. Kendal; and undoubted specimens 

 from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, collected hy Mr. Fox, and another from St. 

 Vincent, W. Indies, gathered hy Lan.sdown Gui/ilitiff. Though a maritime plant, 

 it is, in England at least, like the Plantarjo inarihma and Armeria maritima, 

 also occasionally found on mountains remote from the coast. Some of our spe- 

 cimens from Madeira have the fronds more than a foot long independent of the 

 stipes. Though variable in the size of the fronds and even in the form and out- 

 line of the pinna;, sometimes elongated and pinnatifld, it is a species easily re- 

 cognized, especially by its glossy eheneous stipes. 



36. A. (Euasplcnium) ohtusatum, Forst.; caudex short stout 

 woody subdecumbent densely rooting below and densely pale- 

 aceous above with large brown glossy ovate long-acuminated 

 scales (having Sphnf/imm-Yikc cellules), stipites tufted of the 

 same colour as the frond 3 inches to a span long compressed, 

 fronds 6-10 inches long coriaceous very firm " generally pale 

 light-green still paler beneath'^ slightly paleaceous when 

 young oblong acuminate pinnated with usually a distinct ter- 

 minal pinna, pinnae few 2-6 or 7 pairs petiolate 1-2 inches long 

 oblong obtuse (rarely acuminated) obliquely cuneate at the 

 base superior base truncate not auricled crenato-serrated at 

 the elevated and subcartilaginous margin, veins sunk simple 

 or more rarely forked, sori oblique few and short and oblong 

 or linear and more numerous, involucre firm pale-coloured. 

 Forst. Prodr. p. 80. Sw. Si/7i. Fil. pp. 78, 267. ItVld. Sp. 

 PI. V. jo. 317. Schk. Fil. t. 68. Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. HoU. 

 p. 150. LabiU. Fl. Nov. Holt. ii. p. 93. t. 2A2. f. 2. Hook, 

 fil. Fl. N. Zeal. ii. p. 33. Homb. and Jacq. Voy. au Pol. Sud, 

 Bot. Crypt, t. 1 B, small specimen (ivithout descript.J. Hook. 

 Fil.Exot.t. 46. Hook. fil. Fl. Tasm. 2145. Metten. Asplen. 

 p. 92. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 150. A. decurrens and A. sarmen- 

 tosum, M^illd. I. c. p. 316. A. chondrophyllum, Bert. Coll. 

 PI. Cldl. 40. t. 68. A. consimile, Gay, FL C/iil. x\. p. 501. 



Var. 13. oblviuinn ; larger pinnce more numerous oblong- 

 lanceolate generally acute darker green, sori narrower more 

 crowded and more linear. — Hook. fil. Fl. Antarct. p. 108. 

 Fl. N. Zeal. ii. p. 33. A. obliquum, Forst. Prodr. p. 80. 

 Sw. Syn. Fil. pp. 78,268. Schk. Fil. t. 71 {(/ood). Metten. 

 Asplen. p. 92. Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl. I. c. t. 242./. 1. A. 

 sphenoides, Kze. in Linnaa, ix. p. 63. A. apice-dentatum, 

 Hombr. et Voy. Pol. Sud, t. 1. /. A, and A. obtusum, t. 1. 

 /. B, the larger specimen. A. lucidum, 7. obliquum, Moore, 

 Ind. Fil p. 142. 



