PLend.cf. 1. FILICES. 7. Asplehium. IS 



4. Asplenium Germanicum. German spleenwort. 

 Frond pinnate; leaflets alternate, lanceolate, cuneate, 



toothed at the tip, the lower ones two-parted. 



Scolopendiiiiin alternifoliutn, Roth Germ. 3,33. 

 Asplenium alternifolium, With. 768. 

 Asplenium Breynii, Swartz Syn. Fit. 85. 

 Asplenium Germanicum, Weis Crypt. 299. 

 Alternate-leaned spleenwort. 



Subalpine rocks ; perennial ; June to October. 

 Root black : fronds numerous, 6 in. high, erect, light 

 green, smooth ; leaflets alternate ; sori few, short, pale. 



5. Asplenium saxatile. Rock spleenwort. 

 Frond pinnate ; leaflets subrotundo-oblong, obtuse, cre- 



nate, truncato-cuneate ; stipes blackish brown, shining, 

 keeled below. 



Trichomanes, Rati Syn. 119, 1 ; Park, 1051. 

 T. mas, Ger. em. 1146. 

 Asplenium Trichomanes, Lin. S. P. 1540. 

 Asplenium saxatile, Sal. Prod. -iOS. 

 English black maidenhair. 



Shaded rocks and old walls; perennial; all the year. 



Root black, hairy, cespitose ; fronds numerous, 6 in. 

 high ; rachis dark purple, smooth, shining ; leaflets smooth, 

 without veins, very dark green above, paler below; invo- 

 volucra whitish ; capsules brown. 



6. incisum. Leq^e^5 pinnatifid ; sometimes very long, 



Trichomanes foliis elegantis incisis, Raii Syn. 120,2. 



y. ramosissimum. Frond very much branched at top. 



6. Asplenium viride. Green spleenwort. 



Frond pinnate; leaflets subrotundo-ovate, wedgeshape 

 at the base, obtusely serrate ; rachis green, flat beneath. 



Trichomanes costa viridi, quandoque bifida, foliis lenticularibus cre- 

 natis, Lhwyd in Raii Syn. 119, 2. 



Asplenium viride. Hud. Ft. Ang, 453. 



Moist alpine rocks; perennial; June, July. 



Frond about 6 in. high, linear-lanceolate, paler than 

 A. saxatile ; rachis rather four-sided, or flattened below ; 

 involucra and capsules yellowish. 



&. ramosum. Rachis divided. 



Trichomanes ramosnm, Raii Syn. 119, 2. 

 Trichomanes foemina, Ger. 985. 

 Branched English black maidenhair. 



