196 ASPLENIUM, § EUASPLENIUM. 



character of the present very distinct species, the figure above referred to will show 

 its true characters. Its nearest atfinity is perhaps with C. varians, but the short, 

 stipites, the fronds tapering downwards in circumscription, and the different 

 forms of the i)inn;e and tlieir much longer petioles, will readily distinguish it. 

 The beautiful tufts of specimens sent by Mr. Wright exhibit the old fertile 

 fronds always accompanied by younger ones in ditterent stages of perfection and 

 of fructification ; without the latter, the plant might be taken for a Gymnor/ramme, 

 if only the old fertile fronds are seen, for the comparatively large and oval- 

 shaped sori overwhelm and entirely conceal the small, delicate, membranaceous 

 involucre. 



(Dareastrura.— y^/^e A. hulbiferum, Forst. An ill-dpfined group, of compoundli/ 

 pinnate species, in part partaking of the following Dare-d-group, in the fre- 

 quently narrow segments and marginal or submaryinal sori, but often having, 

 even on the same species, some sori marginal, others on the disc. Asplenium, 

 § Dareastrum, in part, Fee, Gen. p. 187.) 



187- A. (Euasplenium) bulbiferum, Forst. ; caudex stout 

 horizontal or oblique paleaceous with long linear-subulate 

 scales at the summit, stipites lurid-green 4 inches to a foot 

 long sometimes deciduously and sparsely paleaceous semi- 

 terete or broad and compressed, fronds suljcoriaceo-membra- 

 naceous yet flaccid 1-3 feet long ovato-lanceolate erect or 

 pendulous dark green pinnato-pinnatifid with lobes entire or 

 toothed or usually hi- rarely tripinnate, primary pinnee often 

 proliferous 6 inches long petiolate more or less lanceolate 

 acuminated, pinnules in the normal form from \ an inch to 2 

 inches long elliptical-ovate and more or less pinnatifid with 

 euasplenioid sori, or the pinnules are narrower elongated 

 deeply divided, and the majority of them quite dareoid, sori 

 obHque, involucres firm greenish, rachises compressed. — 

 (Normal form, but gradually passing into the next, laxum), 

 Forst. Prodr. j^. 80. Siv. Syn. FiL pp. 83 and 278. Schk. 

 Fil. t. 79. Hook. Ic. PL t. 423. Hombr. et Jucq. Voy. Pol. 

 Slid, Bot. t. 3. / I. Hook. fil. Fl. N. Zeal. ii. p. 34. FL 

 Tasm. ii. p. 146. Mctten. Asp/en. p. 106. Moore, Lid. Fil. 

 p. 118. Casnopteris, Desv. Aspl. viridans, Lablll. Sert.Aust. 

 Caled. i. jj. 2. t. 2. Metten. Asplen. p. 107- A. Ijullatum, 

 Wall. Cat. n. 215. Athyrium macrocarpum. Fee, Gen. Fil. 

 p. 188. Asplen.j Moore. — Var. laxum; fronds generally pen- 

 dulous, pinnules more deeply divided into narrow dareoid 

 segments. Hook. fil. Fl. N. Zeal. ii. p. 34. Csenopteris 

 appendiculata, Labill. Fl. Nov. Holl. ii. p. 24. t. 243. A. 

 laxum, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 151. Hombr. et Jacq. 

 Voy. Pol. Sud, t. 3. /. J. A. triste ?, Raoul, Choix des PL 

 N. Zel. p. 10. — Var. tripinnatum ; fronds tripinnate, pinnules 



