ASPLENIUM, § ATHYRIUM. 225 



Ilab. Japan, Gorhig, n. 115; Dr. Bahington. — Dr. Babingtou's epecinieii en- 

 tirely accords with the figure and description of Mettenius. 



228. A. (Athyrium) Sandwichianum, Mett. : "quite gla- 

 brous, frond ovate tripinnate, pinnae and primary pinnules 

 petiolate oblong, secondary ones sessile lanceolate obtuse 

 pinnatifid, lowest segments bifid, superior ones linear entire 

 acute, tertiary rachis winged, sori straight." Pr. — Metten. 

 Asplen. jj. 197. Athyrium, iV. Ephnel. Bot. p. 67- Mette- 

 nius quotes A. Gaudichaudi, Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 188 ? 



Hab. Oabu, Sandwicli Islands (J/eyew), Hook. Herb, from Ilerb. Lambert? — I 

 have seen no authentic specimens of this Fern of Presl. His description is not 

 sufficiently satisfactory to enable me to say if the specimens I have received from 

 the Sandwich Islands, given to me by Mr. Lambert, be the same or not. It 

 agrees in one particular : " Ab A. Poiretiano, quod quoque in insulis Sandwich- 

 ensibus provenit, distinctissima," Pr. 



229. A. (Athyrium) pectinatum, Wall.; caudex long as- 

 cending subrepent scaly, " stipes 7 inches long stramineous, 

 frond membranaceous glabrous 1^ foot long oblongo-lan- 

 ceolate, below short- at the apex long-acuminate bipinnate, 

 primary pinnae subdistant su1)opposite patenti-divergent fal- 

 cate, in the middle 4^-5 inches long shortly petiolate ob- 

 longo-lanceolate caudato-acuminate at the apex deeply mu- 

 cronato-inciso-serrate, lowest ones remote, secondary pinnaj 

 numerous approximate rectangular-patent short-petiolate 

 from an oblique subequally truncate base ovato-oblong ob- 

 tuse again pinnated or pinnatifid, segments (or ultimate pin- 

 nules) approximate 6-8 on each side linear-oblong adnate at 

 the attenuated base and confluent so as to be pectinato-pinnati- 

 fidly incised, serratures acute or cuspidate approximate, lower 

 ones here and there bifid, nerves at an angle of 20°, sori 

 approximate to the costule of the pinnule, the lowest inferior 

 hamate, involucre membranaceous entire." Metten. — Wall. 

 Cat. n. 231. Metten. Asplen. p. \d*]. Athyrium, Pr. Moore. 



Hab. Nepal, Wallich. North-west India, Edgworth, T. Thomson. Above 

 Simla, Col Bates, n. 52. — The above character from Mettenius well describes 

 this, which has somewhat of the outline and texture of A. FilLcfuimina, but a 

 more compact and neater form, and the incised pinnules of A. scandicinum, to 

 which, perhaps, it is too nearly allied. 



230. A. (Athyrium) crenatum, Fries ; caudex " creeping," 

 stipes a span to a foot long stramineous or tawny-brown 

 almost black at the base and there clothed with large glossy 

 brown ovate acuminated scales, frond a span to a foot long 

 membranaceous triangular !)ipinnate with the secondary 

 pinucB deeply pinnatifid or tripinnate, primary pinna) spread- 



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