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Prof. Kunze on some Ferns of the United States. 85 
A fine species, w ich cannot be confounded with. 
known to me; in habit it approaches somewhat to A. (Nepe.) 
marginale; it is 1-2 foot high ; the circumference of the entire 
fertile pinnule varies from lanceolate to 0 blong ; the veins are re- 
aaeras nie and the ‘upper branch rarely : also the ae 
sterile branches of the veins om just 
ouch te the hniete arid slightly thickened. a 
~ Ovnotiea.—O.  obtusilobata, Schk., sctording: to Hookess 
—— a bina of 0. sensibilis, and 
deel be sy 
patina ty to me. An examination of specimens in the : 
herbarium of Berlin, inclines me to the same opinion. Shae 
nus . teris, Presl, is is founded on — —— of Ono- 
dept with srttle ones of um: Adpitbums Lah 
ASPLENIUM. —A. pinnatifidum, Nutt., appears to: be a rare _ 
“er detected a variety with sharply atid coreg in- 
thed lobes, on rocks of the southern want of the 
Shares mountains; North Carolina. It is distinguis 
A. rhizophylum by its free, not anastomosing veins, and — 
: never | 
worth states that Ay he ohailahe,’ 6. pinnatijidum, Barton, i in 
‘ ; 4 le sam + > ga 
anoides, Michx., fronde- coriacea, glabray: lineari- 
toile cae, trevfeclinieta, basi longe attenuata, pinnata; pin 
sessilibus (Oppositis), divergentibus, trapezio-oblongis, obtusis, im 
ferioribus deflexis subcordatis sensim abbreviatis, omnibus sub- 
aveniis, margine cartilagineo repando-crenatis ; soris breviusculis, 
margine approximatis ; rhachi stipiteque brevi basi palegea 
thizomate Brevi vi, horizontali, radicoso 
sipieies,” so well distinguished from its nearest relatives, 
has been much raat Micha ee diagnosis and his habitat 
ing 12. ae ; 
sents tolerably well the plant in qeaninad but the former must 
main doubtful, for the. pinne are re represented as being cometited 
Me ae ee 
«ieee ee Se 
E ws pine ut in a notice of Pres’ 8 Psriddgngbie, in this Journal, vol. 
xix, p Gr. 
Ae Motte, in southern Missouri — 
