146 ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 



Hal). On decayed trees, forest of Archedona, Andes of Quito, Jameson, n. 707. 

 — Of this well-marked species I have only seen specimens from the above locality. 

 The creeping, much entangled, tiliform caudex, and the rather deeply lobato-pin- 

 natilid pinnules, and the herbaceous and slightly winged stipes and rachis, will 

 keep it very distinct from any of this group. 



107. A. (Euasplenium) flabellifoHum, Cav. ; caudex rather 

 stout short subrepent clothed above with small subulate black 

 scales, stipites csespitose 2-4-6 inches longflcxuose ebeneous 

 brown below, fronds 3-6 inches to a foot (including the long 

 extended naked rachis rooting at the point) or a foot and a half 

 long flexuose decumbent membranaceous bright-green pin- 

 nated, pinucC flabelliform or broad semilunate and deltoid or 

 rhomboid 1 line to \ an inch long the cuneate base suddenly 

 tapering into a very short petiole or sessile, sometimes a 

 pinna is auricled above and beneath or .3-lobed subentire or 

 more or less serrated, veins flabellate, sori oblique 3-4 on 

 each pinna oblong, involucre pale-brown membranaceous. — 

 Cav. Demonstr. p. 257. n. 636. Sw. Sijn. Fil. pp. 8i and 273. 

 t. 3./. 2. Willd. Sp. PL v.p. 333. Br. Prodr. p. 6. Hook. 

 Ex. Fl. t. 208 (A. flabelliforme). Hook. fil. Fl. N. Zeal. ii. 

 p. 33. Fl. Tasm. ii. p. 145. Metten. Fil.^Eort. Lips. p. 72. 

 Asplen. p. 140. 



Hab. Abundant in New South Wales, South Australia, and as far west as Swan 

 River, Drummond. Tasmania, equally plentiful ; and in New Zealand, Nortliern 

 Island, and as far south as Banks's Peninsula, Lyall, and Akaroa, Raoul. — Well 

 distinguished by the generally flabellate pinnaj, the procumbent fronds with the 

 long rachis, naked (or with very abortive pinnae), rooting at the apex, and pro- 

 ducing new plants. 



108. A. (Euasplenium) Gilliesianum, Hook. ; small, caudex 

 minute fibrous paleaceous above, stipites very slender fili- 

 form 1-2 inches long stramineous, fronds linear-oblong acu- 

 minate very thin membranaceous and translucent pinnated, 

 pinnae 12-18 distant 2 lines long sessile flabelliform with 

 an unequal cuneiform base unequally and acutely inciso-sub- 

 lobate, terminal ones very minute narrow cuneate all free, 

 veins flabellately dichotomous, sori 1-3 on each pinna linear- 

 oblong, involucre very thin membranaceous, rachis filiform 

 peculiarly slender flexuose. — Hook, and Grev. Ic. Fil. t. 63. 

 A. dentatum, Metten. p. 124. 



Hab. Fissures of rocks, at Ceno Grande Uspallata, Andes of Mendoza, Dr. 

 Gillies. — Dr. Mettenius has probably not had the opportunity of seeing specimens 

 of this plant, nor, one would think, Dr. Oreville's admirable figure of it in the 

 ' Icones Filicum,' or he would hardly have referred it as a synonym to the Aspl. 

 dentatum, Linn. Its locality is in a widely different country, and its natural 



