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fienicuJaceum, and n. 3G2, " A. rigidum, Sw.'" {Klotzsch). Brazil ; St. Catharine's, 

 Mr. Fox. Andes of Quito, near Faiiallacla, /a/we.von. — Xiir. /oeniculaveiim. Tro- 

 jjical America ; New Andalusia, JI.B.K. Andes of Quito, Jameson, n. 2 and n. 

 271 : in woods, with long acicular segments. Peru, Matheivs, n. 1110. Tara- 

 pota, Eastern Peru, Spruce, n. 4035. New Granada. 7-8000 feet elev., Schlim, 

 n. 632, 883, and 959 (passing into the true A. fruyrans). Valparaiso, Uridyes,- 

 CMmiH//, n. 324 (Cordilleras). ^\e\\co, Juryeiisen, n. 914. Liebmann {X. corn- 

 ioWii, Liebrn.). West Indies; Jamaica, «. 1523. — I cannot hetter illustrate the 

 difficulty attending, though correctly discriminating, the limits of the present 

 species, and some of its aUies, than by referring to the ' Annotationes' quoted 

 from .N'etteniiis under our last species, A. auritum. A careful examination of 

 my copious series of specimens confirms all that is said there : the more com- 

 pound forms of that species seem to i)ass insensibly into A. frayram, as A. 

 frayranx does still more evidently into A. funiiculaceum. My greatest difficulty 

 is with A. delicatuliim, to be next described. 1 have with little hesitation re- 

 ferred Fee's Aspl. teiicUum, from " Quito. Jameson," to one of the many forms 

 of the var. A. fuiiuculaceum : it is the finest cut of any of the varieties. I do not 

 know which may be the A. tenellum alluded to by Mr. Moore. 



163. A. (Euasplenium) deJicatuluniyVv.; caudex very slen- 

 der creeping thread-like andflagelliform, stipites from ^ to 1^ 

 inch high filiform, fronds mein])ranaceous very delicate barely 

 2 inches long ovato-lanceolate bipinnate, primary j)iniitc not 

 exceeding h an inch long deeply pinnatifid or again pinnate, 

 pinnules and segments linear-oblong acute single-veined, sori 

 oblong rarely more than one in each lobe or pinnule distant 

 from the margin, involucres pale membranaceous. — Pi-. Rel. 

 Hank. i. p. 47- t. 'J.f. S, and in Liunaa, ix. p. 109. Hook. Ic. 

 PL t. 918. Metten. Asphni. p. 105. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 123. 



Hab. Andes of Quito on trutdvs of trees, Cuchaos, Ilmike, Pappiy. Venezuela, 

 Fendler, n. 454. Santa Maria, Purdie. Cuba, C. Wriyhl. — 1 have, in my'lcones 

 Plantarum,' above quoted, expressed my doubts respecting the validity of this as 

 a species. Small and delicate as it is, it conies very near to some of my young 

 specimens of A.frayrans, \&v. Jveniculaceum, in which state they exhibit {v. the 

 figure in Icones Fil. t. 92) surculi from the roots, or, in other words, a filiform 

 creeping caudex. The general aspect of this is at first sight that of a delicate 

 Trichomanes. Some of Fcndler's specimens seeiu to pass gradually into small 

 specimens of A.fceniculaceuui. 



164. A. (Euasplenium) setisecium, Bl. ; " fronds bipinnate 

 (bipinnatifid above) subcoriaceous glabrous, pinna; petiolate 

 lanceolate (in circumscription) very acuminate, pinnules ses- 

 sile cuneato-oblong obtuse from tlie middle to the apex se- 

 taceo-inciso-serrate striated, superior ones linear incised at 

 the apex confluent, rachis subpaleaceo-hirsute." Bl. En. Fii. 

 Juv. p. 1 87. — Metten. Asplen. p. 159. Moon; Ind. Fil. p. 168. 

 Tarachia, Pr. 



Ilab. Rocks on mountains in Java. — " Asiil. frayrans, Sw., ditlers in the acute 

 jiiunulcs only serrated at the ajicx." 



