126 ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 



nius, who seems to be acquainted with the species, places it next to A. pieropus, 

 but oflFers no remarks on its affinities. I place it doubtfully in this section. 



83. A. (Euasplenium) erection, Bory; "rhizome erect 

 crowned with acuminate setose scales, fronds 1-1| foot long 

 rigidly membranaceous glabrous linear-lanceolate pinnated 

 pinnatifid at the apex, stipes reddish-brown margined with 

 green between the pinntc, pinnoe numerous shortly petiolate 

 1 inch long 3-4 lines wide from an unequal entire base 

 which below is exciso-cuneate and above truncate and auri- 

 culate (rarely so below) trapezoid-lanceolate acuminate inciso- 

 serrate, serratures obtuse, auricles dentato-serrate, veins 

 oblique forked above the middle basal ones pinnate, sori 

 elongate on each side at the costa rarely on the auricles, 

 involucre membranaceous thin at length reflexed." Metteu. 

 — Normal form. Bory in Willd. Sp. PL jj. 510. Schlecht. 

 Adumbr. p. 28. /. 15. Pappe and Raws. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr. 

 p. 18. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 73. Asplen. p. 122. 

 Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 127. A. mutilatum, Kl/s. En. Fil. p. 171. 

 A. ineequilaterale, Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 322. A. falcatum, 

 Thunb. Prodr. p. 172. Fl. Co/?. 316 ?, not Lam. A. lunulatum, 

 Sw. ? Syn. Fil. p. 80. Willd. ? Sp. PL v. p. 324. Schkcht. 

 Adumbr. ? p. 27. Kze. in Linncea, x. p. 514. Metten. Asplen. 

 p. 121. Pappe and Raws. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austral, p. 10. A. 

 Dolabella, Kze. olim. Fee, Gen. p. 191. A. sphenolobium, 

 Kze. in Linmea, xxiv. p. 64. A. insulare, Carm. FL Trist. 

 d'Acunha, in Linn. Soc. Trans, xi. p. 512. A. dentex, Lowe, 

 Hist, of Ferns, v. t. 43. A. {Moore). A. " marinum ? "Thoiiars, 

 Fl. Trist. d'Acunha, p. 84 {not L.). A. brachyotus, Kze. in 

 Linncea, x. p. 512; xxi. p. 217; and xxiv. p. 261. Pappe 

 and Raws. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr. p. 18. Metten. Asplen. 

 p. 74. Moore, Lid. Fil. p. 117- A. Zeyheri, Poppe and 

 Rav)S. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austr. p. 18. A. auricularium, Desv. 

 Mem. Soc. Linn. vi. p. 273. A. consanguineum. Gaud, in 

 Freyc.p. 315. A. Brasiliense, Raddi, Fil. Bras. p. 36. t. 51. 

 /". 1. Kze. in Linncea, xxiv. jo. 263. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 117- 

 A. pulchrum, Wall. Cat. n. 2211. A. tenerum, Raddi, Syn. 

 Fil. p. 93. A. regulare, Sw. Vetensk. Acad. HandL 1847, 

 p. 67. Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 107- A. triste, Kaulf. Enum. 

 p. 170. Kze. Flor. 1839. Metten. Asplen. p. 120.— Var. 

 proliferum ; fronds generally dark-green, copiously proliferous 

 at the apex. Hook. Fil. Exot. t. 72. A. radicans, Pr'itchard, 

 Cat. PL St. Helena, p. 6. A. pavonicum, Brack. Fil. Un. 

 Str. Expl. Exp. p. 150. /. 20. Metten. Asplen. p. 136. A. 



