224 ASPLENIUM, § ATHYRIUM. 



long distant subsessile from a broad base gradually atte- 

 nuated, pinnules 2-4 lines long patent oblong ol)tuse cuneate 

 at the Ijase dccurrent so as to form a winged rachis, pinna- 

 tifid segments very acute at the apex often bidentate, veins 

 pinnated veinlets simple or forked, sori one to each lobe or seg- 

 ment near the costule more or less curved, involucre rather 

 small nienil)ranaceous convex, primary and secondary rachises 

 slender stramineous often flexuose. — Sch/ec/ii. Achimhr. Fit. 

 Cap. p. 24. /. 13 {very fjood) . Metten. Asplen. p. 196. Papjie 

 and Raivson, Syn. Fil. Cap. p. 21. Aspidium scandicinum, 

 WiUd. Sp. PL V. p. 28.3 {not Kaidf.). Allantodia, KauJf. En. 

 Fil. p. 179 {"inpai't"). Athyrium, Moore. Nephrodium, 

 Bory, hiBelaiig. p. G.3. Cystopteris, Desv. Asplenium Poi- 

 retianum, Gand. Bot. Freyc. p. 327. t. 13 [very good). Brack. 

 Fil. U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 176. A. multisectum, Brack. I. c. 

 p. 174. Metten. Asple7i. p. 197- 



Ilab. Bourbon, Fliigge, Herb. Mus. Par. {in Herb. Nosir.). South Africa, 

 especially eastward of the Cape Colony, Bergius, Mundt. Natal and Grahamstown, 

 Gueinzius, J. L. Meade {in Herb. Nostr.). Madagascar, Bojer. Ceylon, Mrs. Genl. 

 Walker; Gardner, n. \Z\(> and \Q&b. 'Se\\^\\ornt%, Sir F. Adam. Sandwich 

 Islands, Gaudic/iaud, Beechey, M'liae, Douglas, n. 41 ; Nuttall. South America, 

 Pacific side, Ecuador, Seemann (in Herb. Nostr.). — A well-marked and widely 

 distributed species, with much divided fronds and finely cut pinnules, when dry 

 of a very dark, almost black-green colour. Both the figures above referred to 

 well represent the characters of the plant. 



227. A. (Athyrium) Goringianum, Metten. ; " frond thin- 

 coriaceous glabrous, stipes 6 inches long stramineous loosely 

 paleaceous, frond 6 inches long deltoid acuminate bipinnate, 

 primary segments on each side 10-12 approximate patent 

 falcate lowest ones 3 inches long petiolate broad-lanceolate 

 superior ones elongato-oblong all caudato-acuminate mucro- 

 nately inciso-serrate at the apex, secondary ones approximate 

 obliquely patent at the base attenuate and adnate subpetio- 

 late fi-lO lines long from an inferior base cuneato-truncate 

 auricled trapezio-oblong or lanceolate falcate cuspidato-acu- 

 minate deeply pinnato-partite, segments 3-5 on each side 

 narrow-oblong mucronato-appressedly serrate, basal ones the 

 largest (costulam sub angulo 25° decurrentem excipientes), 

 veins immersed 3-4 on each side decurrent at an angle of 

 10°, the lowest ones bearing a hippocrepiform sorus approxi- 

 mate to the sinuses of the segments minute, superior sori 

 costular 1-2, involucre rigidly membranaceous entire." Met- 

 ten. Asplen. p. 198. t. 6. /. 11,12. — Aspidium, /ire. Bot. Zeit. 

 vi. p. 557. Lastrea, Moore. 



