roi-tion of mature Frond— under side. 



ASPLEmUM MAEIXUM. 



Linnaeus. Bolton. Smith. Hooker. Deakin. 



Hooker and Arnott. Mackay. Babington. Newman. 



Moore. Sowerby. Schkuhr. 



WiLLDENOW. SpRENGEL. PrESL. FeE. PrATT. 



Francis. Lightfoot. Hudson. Withering. 



PLATE XXIII. VOL. T. « 



Adiantum trapeziforme, 

 " trapeziferme, 



HUDSOX. "VYlTHEEIXG. 



Bekkenhout. 



Asplenium — Spleenwort. 



Marinum — 



In the Section Euasflenium of Authors. 



The Sea Spleenwort, as the Asplenium marinum is very 

 properly called, is a handsome British Fern. It does not seem 

 possible to grow it in an artificial Fernery with any degree of 

 success; it will carry on a miserable existence for several years 

 and then die; yet under pot culture there are but few Ferns 

 which flourish better, nor which produce handsomer specimens 

 than the A. marinum. It is a sea-coast Fern, never occuring 

 very far inland; it is to be found, with the exception of the east 



