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tlie base, fronds 1-2 inches long coriaceous glabrous pinnated, 

 pinnae f-1 inch long long-petioled linear or linear-lanceolate 

 subunguiculate often very acute or acuminate rarely solitary 

 generally 2-3 alternate entire or forked, lateral segments small 

 subulate rarely laciniated (2-3 acuminate segments), veins 

 forked parallel, sori very long, involucres also much elongated 

 attached near the margin. — Siv. in Schrad. Journ. ii. j). 283. 

 Willd. Sp. PI. V. p. 307. Schk. FiL p. 62. t. 65. En(/l. Bot. 

 t. 1017. Metten. Asplen. FiL Hort. Lips. p. 76. t. 13. /. 21. 

 Moore, Ferns Nat. Print, t. 4:1 C. Metten. Asplen. p. 141. 

 Acropteris, i/f«A-. Fee,Gen.Fil. p."]"]. t. G A.f.l. Amesium, 

 Neivm. Acrostichum, Linn. Sp. PL p. 1524. 



Ilab. Europe, generally in mountain regions, from Norway to the extreme 

 south ; Caucasus, Ural, and Altai. Northern India : Kashmir, T. Thomson, 

 Jacquemont, elev. 9000 feet, n. 1201 {n. 57 in Herb. Mus. I'ar.) ; Garhwal, 

 11,000 feet, Strachey and Winterbottom, n. 4. New Mexico!, C. Wright, coll. 

 1851-2, 11. 2122. — There is a peculiarity in the general form of the pinnae of this 

 plant, and especially in the very elongated sori and involucres, but scarcely cha- 

 racter enough to constitute a new genus (Acropieris), as Link has done. 



154. A. (Euasplenium) Germa)iicum,Weiss ; caudex short 

 thick apparently formed by the remains of old stipites scarcely 

 paleaceous densely rooting, stipites crowded cffispitose slender 

 2-4 inches long dark ebeneous-purple below, fronds 2-2^ 

 inches long oblong pinnate or rarely subbipinnate, pinnules 

 cuneate i an inch long coarsely incised tapering into a rather 

 long slender petiole, veins forked erect, sori linear often 

 elongated parallel, involucres white entire. — JFeiss, PL Crypt. 

 209 (1/70). JVilld. Sp. PL v. p. 330. 3Ioore, Brit. Ferns 

 Nat. Print, t. 41 B. Aspl. alternifolium, IVidf. in Jacq. Misc. 

 Austr.ii.p. 51. t. 5.f.2. En(/L Bot. t. 225S. Aspl. Breynii, 

 Retz, Obs. Bot. t. 32. Sw. Syn. FiL p. 85. Schk. FiL p. 77. 

 /. 81. Metten. Asplen. p. \A2. Amesium, A'^ewm. Scolopen- 

 drium, Roth. Tarachia, Pr. 



Hah. Middle and north of Europe, as far as Stockholm and Ilelsingfors; rare 

 in England and Scotland, mostly in stony and mountain districts. I possess 

 beautiful specimens gathered in Cumberland by the Rn\ W. II. Hawker, and 

 others, from a stone wall near Oare, on the borders of Devon and Somerset, by 

 N. B. Ward, Esq. Some of the states of this are not unfrecjuently mistaken 

 for A. scplcntrionale, and others for A. Riita-muraria, but the three species are 

 truly distinct. 



155. A. (Euasplenium) Seelosii, Leibold ; small, caudex 

 short horizontal copiously radiculose above clothed with 

 numerous long brown subulate glossy scales, stii)itcs tufled 

 slender scarcely 3 inches long green black at the base 



