ASPLENIUM, § HKMIDICTYUM. 273 



or less scal3^ — Hook. Jc. Plant, x. t. 938. A. Purdieanoidcs, 

 Karst. Fl. Colunib. i. i. 32. 



Hal). Jamaica: moist woods; La Fundacioii, Purdin. Coliimhia, Kars/ni. — 

 Tlie affinity of this with our J. FinlayHnnionnm will he evident to tlioso who 

 have the opiioitmiity of corii])aring it with specimens of our preceding species, 

 from which it is truly distinct. The Aspl. Pur/lioanoides of Karsten shows 

 that the same species is now found in Columbia, where it is the representative of 

 the Indian J. Finlaysonianum. 



(Vcivs and t^einlefs as in the last Subsection. Sort short. Tnvolncres obsolete. 

 Back of tlie frond covered with denseli/ imtmcaled, reliculated scales. — Genus 

 Cetcrach of Adanson and others) 



305. A. (Hemidictyum) CeteracJi, L. ; caudex short tliick 

 densely rooting, fronds G-10 inches h)ng caospitose htnceolate 

 tapering below into a scaly slender stipes coriaceous opaque 

 deeply pinnatifid subpinnate at the base green above and 

 naked beneath densely clothed with imbricated tawny entire 

 or toothed scales, segments broad-ovate or oblong horizontal 

 obtuse lower ones or pinnoa much abbreviated, veins anasto- 

 mosing copiously towards the margin, sori short-oblong, in- 

 volucre very narrow often obsolete. — Linn. Sp. PL p. 1538. 

 Grammitis Ceterach, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 23. Ceterach ofiicinarum, 

 JFilld. Sp. PL V. p. 136. ^Febb, FL Canar. iii. p. 443. Hook. 

 Gen. FiL t. 113 A, and Brit. Flora, ed. j. t. 9. /. 1. 

 Mett. Hort. FiL Lips. p. 80. Pappe and Raivs. Syn. FiL Afr. 

 Austr. p. 23. Scolopendrium Ceterach, Sm. Engl. Bot. 1. 1244. 

 Gvmnogramme Ceterach, Spr. — ^. aureum ; larger, segments 

 more elongated, scales toothed. Ceterach aureum, Link, in 

 Von Buck, Canar. Lis. p. 138. Webb, FL Canar. m.p. 433. 

 Acrostichum aureum, " Cav. Anal, de Cienc. Nat. iv. p. 104." 

 Grammitis aurea, Siv. Syn. FiL p. 33 and p. 45. Ceterach 

 Canariensis, Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 137. Asplenium latifolium, 

 Bory, Isles Fort. p. 311. t. 6. Ceterach latifolium, Fee, Gen. 

 FiL p. 20G. /. 30./. 1 {excellent). 



Ilah. From the islands of Gothland, north (Fries), to the Canary Islands and 

 Azores, south. Eastward it extends to Uralian Silieria, through southern Europe 

 and the Caucasus, Asia Minor to Kurdistan, 3 fajor Garden ,- to North-western 

 India, Persia, prov. Karahagh, Scoviiz. Afgtian, Kashmir, Tihet, Edyworth, 

 Griffith, Hootc. fil. and Ttiomson, etc. — I find no record of its being found on 

 the continent of Africa except in the extreme north, Algeria, Hoclisletter, and south 

 at Baviau's River, Cape of Good Hope, Krebs, as stated in the l^innasa, x. p. lO*). 

 The report of its l)eing found in Brazil is prol)al)ly founded in error. — Var. j3. aureum. 

 Common on the moist rocks of the lower regions of the islands of Teueriffe and 

 Palma, /io?-r/. Von Jhich, Webb. We possess fine specimens from the last-mentioned 

 gentleman, from Bourgeau, C. Lemann, etc. — This well-known Fern has, as a genus, 

 had no resting-place, and now 1 have ventured to restore to it its old Linuajan name. 

 Most botanists have considered the sori to be destitute of involucre, and have 

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