178 ASPLENU'M, § EIASVLEXirM. 



creeping copiously rootinp;, the apex paleaceous with brown 

 subulate scales, stipites numerous cfcspitose slender 1-3 inches 

 long castaneous below, frond 2-3 inches long ovato-lanceolate 

 subcoriaceo-niembranaceous pinnate, pinnae distant h an inch 

 long and pinnules rhonibeo-ovate or lanceolato-petiolate 

 (petiole rather broad compressed) pinnatifid, lobes obtuse 

 inciso-dentate, veins solitary in each segment, sori small 

 distant oblong, involucres pale membranaceous entire. — WiUd. 

 Sj}. PL V. p. 342. Gray, Man. of Bot. U. St. p. 594. Met- 

 ten. Asplen. p. 145. /. 34. 35. Aspl. Adiantum-nigrum, r«r., 

 Spreng. Henfl. Asplen. sp. GG. A. Adiantum-nigrum, Mich. 

 Fl. Bor. Am. ii. p. 265. 



Hab. S. U. States : mountains of Carolina and Georgia, Michaux, Schweinitz, 

 A . Grail and Careii, Rugel. — A dwarf species of Anplminm, as far as we yet know, 

 to Carolina and Georgia, extremely different from Aspl. Adiantum-nigmm, with 

 whicii Michaux and Sprengel, and even the accurate Ilenfler, seem to have con- 

 founded it. 



160. A. (Euasplenium) hipariitum, Bory; caudex erect 

 short thickish densely clothed with woolly fibres, stipites 

 3-4 inches long cecspitose slender greenish-brown and as 

 well as the slightly-winged fronds coriaceo-membranaceous 

 pale green 2-6 inches long ovato-lanceolate subbipinnate, 

 pinnse distant long-petiolate 13-30 1-H inch long horizon- 

 tally patent superior ones simple rhombeo-lanceolate coarsely 

 serrate obliquely cuneate at the base with a sharp auricle at 

 the superior base, the rest with one or two petiolated cuneato- 

 incised pinnpe at the base above and rarely a similar one at 

 the base beneath (these are much smaller than the termi- 

 nal one), veins pinnated subflabellate in the lateral pinnae 

 simple or more rarely forked, sori linear oblique, involucres 

 thin-membranaceous entire rarely diplazioid. (Tab. CCVIII.) 

 — Bory in Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 329. Bojer, Hort. Maurit. p. 

 396. Metten. Asplen. p. 113. t. 5. f. 14 {two pinna only). 

 Moore, Ind. Fit. p. U6. Aspl. auritum, IValL Cat. p. 222, 

 var. petiolatum, Kaulfs. in Sieh. Syn. FiL n. G6, and FL Mixta, 

 n. 299. Diplazium, Pr. 



Hab. Shady woods and on trunks of trees, Mauritius, Bory, Wallich, Car- 

 michael, Bojer, Sieber. Nissobe Island, Madagascar, BoCvin, in Herb. Nosir. — 

 A peculiar and very distinct species, confined, as far as we at present know, to 

 the above localities. 



161. A. (Euasplenium) auritum, Sw. ; caudex short as- 

 cending croM'ned with paleaceous ovate acuminated scales, 

 stipites caespitose 4-6 inches long slightly winged above 



