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ASPLENIUM DIVERSIFOLIUM. 



length near the midrib; the segments are acute. Fronds terminal, 

 being attached to a creeping rhizoma, which is stout and 

 covered with scales. The sterile fronds are bipinnate, with 

 roundish-oval pinnules, which are wedge-shaped at the base, 

 and serrate on the margin. 



This is a variable species, sometimes all the fronds will be 

 fertile, at others all sterile, and at others intermediate, one 

 portion of a frond being fertile and linear-filiform, whilst another 

 jDortion will be sterile and trapezoidal in shape. 



Length of frond eighteen inches. 



Stipes brown, with a pale green belt along each lateral side. 



Copious brown scales at the fasciculate rhizoma. 



Sori single on each pinnule, very long, occupying three- 

 fourths of the length of the pinnule; situated on the inner edge. 



For plants of this species I am indebted to Messrs. Rollisson, 

 of Tooting; and to Veitch, Jun., of Chelsea; and for fronds 

 to Mr. Norman, of Hull; Mr. Sim, of Foot's Cray; and to 

 Mr. Henderson, of Wentworth. 



It is in the Fern Catalogues of Messrs. A. Henderson, of 

 Pine-apple Place; E. G. Henderson, of St. John's Wood; Kol- 

 lisson, of Tooting; Parker, of Holloway; Yeitch, of Exeter; 

 Masters, of Canterbury; and Booth, of Hamburg. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



roftion of barren frond. 



