S6 ASPLENIUM 



SILVERY SPLEENWORT: 



Asplenium acrostichoides. 

 (^A. thelypteroides; Athyrium acrostichoides.^ 



Fronds 2 to 3 feet high, growing in clumps, nar- 

 rowed toward the base, pinnate ; pinnae long lance- 

 shaped, with crowded, obtuse, minutely toothed 

 lobes; fertile fronds appearing later than the 

 sterile. 



Fruit dots numerous, slightly curving, borne in a 

 double row on the lobes oblique to the midvein of 

 the lobes. 



Found in moist woods from Nova Scotia to Min- 

 nesota, Georgia and Alabama. 



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