Portion of mature Frond— tmder side. 



ASPLENIUM FLABELLIFOLIUM. 



Cavanelles. Kunze. Link. Fee. Moore & Houlston. 



R. Brown. Presl. 



PLATE I. B. VOL. V. 



Asplenium — Spleenwort. Flaiellifolium — Fan-leaved . 



In the Section Exjasplenium of Moore. 



This pretty little Fern is a slender, creeping, evergreen 

 species, requiring but little care in its cultivation. It makes 

 the handsomest plant when grown in a suspended basket, as 

 its delicate curious-looking fronds hang round the sides, pro- 

 ducing a very graceful weeping specimen. 



A native of New Holland and Van Dieman's Land. 



The fronds are terminal, being attached to a small fasciculate 

 rhizoma. There are no pinnae on the upper portion of the 

 frond, the plant striking root at the apex. The pinnse are 

 small, fan-shaped, petiolate, and sharply toothed on the edges. 

 It has an elongated filiform rachis. The fronds are from 

 thirteen to fourteen inches long, the upper five inches being 

 devoid of pinnse. 



The colour is brilliant green, and the sori profuse, becoming 

 confluent. 



A tolerably abundant species, few good collections being 

 without it. 



