December 2, 1896.] 



Garden and Forest. 



485 



Fig. 69.— Aspidium simulatum, Davenport.— See page 484. 



.. Aspidium simulatum, two-thirds natural size. 2. Portion of frond grown in the sun, two thirds natural size. 3. Pinnules, enlarged. 4. Indusium enlarged 



5. Root-stock of Aspidium Thelypteris. 6. Root-stuck of A. Noveboracense. ' 



belonging to two entirely distinct genera, they cannot resemble plants of A. Filix-fcemina growing under similar 



readily be distinguished from each other by any merely conditions, the outline of the lamina in both Ferns beinsr 



superficial examination. Small plants of A. simulatum almost identical, 



growing near the borders of low woodlands also closely If we compare Aspidium simulatum with A. Thelypteris 



