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cate at the base and closely set on the rachis horizontal 

 subhastato-lanceolate straight or subfalcate obtuse superior 

 base auricled inferior base sometimes equally so especially 

 towards the lower part of the frond where the pinnsc are shorter 

 and broader, the margins crenato-serrate, veins oblique ge- 

 nerally forked, sori oblong' short numerous near the costa 

 regular, involucres membranaceous nearly white. — Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. 1. m.p. 4G2. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 79. Wi/lcl. Sp. PL v. 

 p. 329. A. Gray, Man. of Bot. lUustr.p. 594. Metten. Aspl. 

 p. 136. Pappe and Raivs. Syn. Fil. Afr. Austral, p. 19. 

 Aspl, trichomanoides, Mich. Fl. Bor. Am. ii. p. 265. Aspl. 

 polypodioides, Siv. Syn. Fil. p. 79. Schk. Fil. p. 63. /. 73. 

 Acrostichum platyneuron, Linn. Sjj. PI. 1527- — Var. minus. 

 Aspl. parvulum, Mart, et Gal. Fil. Mex. 60. t. 15./. 3. Aspl. 

 resiliens, Kze. in LinncBa, xviii. p. 33J. 



Ilab. Rare in Canada, Mrs. Shepherd. Api)areiitly frequent tlirougliout the 

 United States, to the extreme south. Sonic s|)cciniens from New Orleans 2 feet 

 4 inches long, with piniiai 2 inches long, some of them deeply pinnatifid and nearly 

 quite hastate, with sharp lohes or auricles on each side at the base. West Indies, 

 St. Thomas, Perrin, communicated by Dr. Torrey, and is the authority for 

 Sprengel's saying that " Asj)!. erectmii'' was found in St. Thomas, by Perrin. 

 Mexico, Martens and Galeotfi; Valley of Chillo, and on walls of the Hacienda 

 de Arcadia, near Quito, Hartweg, n. 1522 ; Rio Ilacha, Sierra Nevada, N. 

 Granada, 10,000 feet elev., Schllm ; my specimens bear the name of Aspl. 

 Sellowianum, Pr. Tent. Pferid. p. 107. S. Africa, Ecklon and Zei/her, n. 4631, 

 Miller, Dr. Alexander Prior. Grahanistown, Col. Bolton. — A well-marked 

 species, long supposed to be peculiar to the United States of America, now found 

 as far south as Quito, and in the eastern districts of the Cape Colony. 



98. A. (Euasplenium) multijuyum, Wall. ; caudex erect 

 stout densely fibrous so as almost to appear to be formed of 

 interlaced fibrous roots, stipites very numerous coespitose 

 4-6 inches long ebeneous-black glossy as well as the rachis, 

 fronds erect or flexuose and subdecumbent 8 inches to a foot 

 long elongated linear-oblong moderately acuminated some- 

 times ])roliferous at the apex rather firm-membranaceous in 

 texture dark opaque green pinnated, pinnae 12-30 and more 

 pairs horizontally approximate gradually smaller at the apex 

 4-6-8 lines long falcato-oblong obtuse obliquely cuneate at 

 the base sessile, sui)erior base truncate prolonged into a 

 sharp auricle parallel with and contiguous to the rachis, 

 inferior base cut witli a horizontal line which extends 

 nearly the length of the inferior margin of the pinna, the 

 rest superior and the apex crenato-dentate, costa slender 

 veniforin parallel with and very near the lower margin, 

 veins distant, superior ones oblique simple or forked, in- 



