34 ASPLENIUM 



SMALL SPLEENWORT: 



Asplenium pdrvulum. 

 {A. resiliens.) 



Fronds upright, 4 to 10 inches in height, pin- 

 nate; pinnae mostly opposite, blunt, slightly eared 

 on the upper side, or often on both upper and 

 lower sides ; stipe and rachis dark and shining. 



Resembles the ebony spleenwort but differs in 

 the pinnae being usually opposite, and the sterile 

 and fertile fronds of the same size. 



Fruit dots borne on the backs of the ordinary 

 fronds in two rows on the pinnae. 



Found in rocky places from Virginia to Kansas, 

 and southward. 



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