ASPLENIUM. 489 



pin7i(e close, lower stalked, lanceolate-deltoid, 1 2-2 in. br., lowest rather shorter 

 and broader than central ; pinnl. rhoinl)oiil, sessile, erecto-patent, cuneate and 

 entire in lower half, |-i in. br., piuiuitifid in upjjer half, with ascending blunt 

 ligulate or oblong lobes ; texture flaccid, l)iit tirni ; surfaces naked, dark-green ; 

 veins fine, distant, erecto-patent ; sori on outside of veins in the lobes only, ^-^- 

 in. 1. — Journ. Bot. 1873, ^:>. 17. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore. 



184. A. thcli/pter aides, var. allcmtodioides ; pinnl. inciso-dentate ; sori shorter, 

 oblong, not more than ^ lin. 1. — Athyriiuu allantodioides, Bedd. F. B. I. 

 t. 221. 



Hab. East Hiinala3'as. 



188. A. achillecefolium, waw grande ; sori much larger than in type, 1^-2 lines, 

 mostly in a single row on each side close to midrib of pinnae. — Athyrlum 

 grande. Fee. 



Hab. Mexico, Borgeau, 2009. 



189. A. macrocarpum, var. Atkinsoni, Clarke ; //■. membranous, 3-4 in. 1., lan- 

 ceolate bipiuuatitid ; basal scales minute, red-brown, lanceolate acuminate ; inv. 

 fimbriated. 



Hab. Sikkim, C. B. Clarice. 



192*. A. (Athyr.) Schimperi, A. Br. ; rhizome wide-creeping, \ in. thick ; basal 

 scales 3-4 lines, linear or lanceolate, bright-brown ; st. L.| ft,, naked strami- 

 neous ; fr. oblong-lanceolate or -deltoid, 1-1^ ft. 1., 3-9 in. l)r., 3-4-pinnatifid ; 

 pinnce close, lanceolate, stalked, lowest distant, reduced ; segm. close, oblong or 

 lanceolate, sharply inciso-dentate ; texture firm, membranous ; surfaces green, 

 naked ; veins pinnate in lobes ; sori small, oblong-reniform. — Athyrium Schim- 

 peri, Moug. in Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 186. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Schimper, 741, &c. ; Cameroon Mountains, 7,000 ft., Mann, — Differs 

 mainly from Filix-fcemina by its wide-creeping rhizome. 



198. The following vars. may be distinguished : — 1. australe, R. Br., India, 

 Australia, Tropical Africa ; fr. '3-pinnatlfid, more flaccid in texture than type ; 

 ult. segm. broader, blunter ; sori longer (1 line). 2. midticaudatum (Wall. D. Jer- 

 doni, Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 327), Himalayas ; fr. firmer in texture, 4-pinnatifid ; ult. 

 segm. ligulate, toothed, blunt, 1-1^ lin. br., containing several short {\ line) sori. 

 3. proccrum (Wall), Himalayas; fr. larger, moderately firm, fully "4-pinnate ; 

 ult. lobes blunt, entire, with a single oblong \ lin. sorus at their base. 4. assimile 

 (Endl. Bedd. F. B. 1. 1. 294), Australia, Norfolk Island, Ceylon ;fr. bright-green, 

 4-pinnate ; 4-nary lobes 1-1^ lin. br., entire or subpinnatifid, nearly filled with 

 erecto-patent linear-oblong often diplazioid sori. A. (Dipl.) Griffifhii, No. 245, 

 is perhaps a fifth variety. 



208*. A. (Dipl.) Riedeliamm, Bong. ; st. 1 ft., naked, grey-stramineous ; 

 fr. lanceolate-acuminate, 1 ft. 1., 4-5 in. br., pinnatifid in upper, simply pinnate 

 in lower half ; lowest 2)innoe much longest, subpetiolate, lanceolate, entire, acute, 

 ascending, 3-4 in. 1., 1 in. br., square on upper side at liase, rounded from midrib 

 on lower, axils gemmiparous, all except 2-3 lower pairs more or less adnate ; 

 divisions of pinnatifid apex blunt, rather imbricated ; texture firm, thin ; surfaces 

 naked, bright-green ; veins distinct, distant, in sparingly pinnated grou])s ; sori 

 medial, 3-4 lines.— i^a^-er, Fl. Bras.fasc. 49. p. 450. t. 01. D. dissimile, Fee, Fil, 

 Bras. t. 21. fg. 1. 



Hab. South Brazil, Bledel, Fritz MuUer. 



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