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cuneate the apices bifid, petioles and zigzag rachises com- 

 pressed (so herbaceous and broad and the segments so narrow 

 that tlie frond might justly be considered as 3-4-pinnatifid 

 with narrow-linear divaricating segments), veins solitary in 

 each segment, sori oblong solitary small yet occupying nearly 

 the diameter of the pinnules, involucres pale reddish-brown 

 subconvex entire. — Kit. in Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 348. Metten. 

 Asplen. p. 142. Moore, hid. Fil p. 130. " Aspl. angusti- 

 folium, Guss. PL Bar. t. 65. A. tenuifolium, Guss. PL Rar. 

 X. p. 377. t. 65. A. Trettnerianum, Jan. F/or. 1 835. 32." il/e^ 

 ten'ws farther quotes "A. lepidum, Pr. Verh. d. VaterL Mus. 

 1836. 65. t. 3. 2, and A. brachyphyllum, Gasp, ex Guss. FL 

 SicuL v. 2. P. 2. p. 885." 



Ilab. Southern Germany and Italy; Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, 

 Turkey. Mount Scardus, Naples (and even the Isle of Gothland, Moore), are 

 given as localities for this rare plant. I possess it myself only from the Alps of 

 Carniola, Milller (named Polyj). alpinum, Svv.), and from Dr. Fischer. The 

 pinna; of this very distinct Asplenium not inaptly resemble much-branched, 

 dichotomous specimens of Riccia. 



158. A. (Euasplenium) MageUanicum, Klfs. ; caudex small 

 ascending scaly at the summit the rest clothed with the re- 

 mains of former years' stipites and ferruginous woolly radicles, 

 stipites aggregated 3-5 inches high lurid-brown, fronds 3-4 

 inches high ovate or subdeltoid firm-coriaceous bi-tripinnate, 

 pinnae petiolate 1-2 inches long ovate acuminate, ultimate 

 pinnules \ line long rhombeo-ovate deeply and unequally 2-3- 

 lobed, lobes ovate or subspathulate sometimes falcate toothed 

 towards the apex, vein central forked at each lobe, sori soli- 

 tary on an ultimate pinnule or lobe short oblong often mar- 

 ginal and dareoid, involucre broad membranaceous brown 

 and persistent not unfrequently forced back by the pulvinate 

 mass of capsules, rachises slender compressed slightly winged. 

 —Kaulf. En. FiL p. 175. Hook, et Grev. Ic. FU. t. 180. Gay, 

 FL C/dL p. 504. Metten. Asplen. p. 128. t. 6. /. 15 and 16 

 {excL syn. A. abrotanoides, Pr.). Moore, hid. FU. p. 143. 



Hab. From Cape Horn in the south to the Andes of Chili, Commerson, Chamisso, 

 Posppig, Cuming, n. 812 and 150 ; Capt. King (Port Famine), Bridges, TV. Lohb, 

 J. D. Hooker (Hermite Island), At Whinnie, Harvey, Capt. Collinson, Lechler, 

 n. 516. Juan Fernandez, Bertero, n. 1534. Isle of Massa Fuera, Cuming, 

 n. 1354. — This may be considered to hold the same i)lace in the temperate and 

 cold regions of S. America that Asplen. Ruta-muraria does in the northern hemi- 

 sphere. Mettenius, by including Aspl. abrotanoides, Pr., gives it as a native of 

 Peru, but Moore places that plant more correctly under A. foeniculaceum, H.B.K. 



159. A. (Euasplenium) montanum, Willd. ; caudex small 



