118 ASFI.KXIUM, § KlJASPLENIUAf. 



have seen no authentic specimen of this, hut I have slightly ahnormal forms of 

 A. eloiigatum, which very much resemhle the figure of Schkuhr, and agree suffi- 

 ciently well witii the (lescrii)tion. The only two localities given for J. fenerittn 

 arc the Pacific Islands and Ceylon. A. elongatnm is found in the same islands. 

 Mettenius, also, who seems acquainted with the present species, places it next to 

 A. elongatum. 



73. A. (Euasplenium) auriculatum, Sw. ; caudex short 

 erect clothed with woolly ferruginous fihres bearing imbri- 

 cated lanceolate scales at the summit, stipites 4 inches to a 

 span and more long stramineous 1-H foot long subcoriaceo- 

 membranaceous ovato-lanceolate yellow-green impari-pin- 

 nate, pinnro 16-20 horizontally patent petiolate 2-3 inches 

 long from a broad unequally cuneate or semicordate base 

 lanceolate acuminate subfalcate duplicato-serrate (no thick- 

 ened margin), subsinuate at the apex, superior base extended 

 towards the rachis into a large rounded lobe or crest-like 

 auricle (often imbricating the rachis) with a deep sinus next 

 the petiole, inferior Ijase excised and forming an angle at 

 some distance from the petiole, terminal pinna from a broad 

 base acuminated the lower portion pinnatifid with rounded 

 unequal lobes, veins forked distant oblique, sori distant 

 linear neither reaching the rachis nor the margin and not 

 extending to the auricles, rachis slender compressed (not 

 winged. (Tab. CLXXI.)— -Sz^. Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 

 181 7, ;;. 68. Kze. in Linncea, xxi. p. 217 {obs.). Moore, 

 Tnd. Fil.]?. 114. A. falx, Desv. Mem. Soc. Linn. vi. p. 275. 

 Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 191. t. 17 C.f. 2 {portion of a pinna only). 

 Moore, hid. Fil. p. 129. A. semicordatum, Raddi, Fil. Bras, 

 p. 36. t. 52. /. 1. Metten. Asplen. p. 102. Mart, et Gal. 

 Fil. Mex.p. 39.* A. abscissum, Raddi, Syn. Fil. p. 94 {non 

 Willd.). A. cultrifolium, Sieb. Syn. Fil. n. 179. A. discolor, 

 Kze. in Limimt, ix. p. 65. A. pimpinellifolium, Fee, "Jme 

 Mem. p. 52, t. 25. f. 5 {small, pinme shorter, less auricled). 



Hab. Tropical America ; in the West Indies, and on the continent of South Ame- 

 rica. Fern, PoBppig, Matheivs. Tarapota, »S>rMce, n. 4676. Brazil, frequent. Para, 

 Spruce, n. 38 B. Guiana, Schomhurgk, n. 451, C. S. Parker. Cayenne, Le 

 Prieur. Archedona, Quito, Jameson (same as A. pimpinellifolia. Fee, which is 

 also found in Mexico), Schaffncr. Guadeloupe, L' Herminier. Dominica, Dr. 

 Imray. Cuba, Wright, n. 848. St. Vincent, L. Guilding. — The above localities 

 are almost entirely from specimens in my own herbarium, and I might have added 

 many nnre from the same source, as well as from Moore's useful ' Index 

 Filicum.' The species is very common, but has been greatly misunderstood, and 



* Fee, Gen. Fil., refers to Galeotli's plant, n. 6340, as a new species, A. lam- 

 procaulon. 



