Portion of pinna of mature Frond —under side. 



ASPLENIUM MICHAUXII. 



Sprengel. J. Smith. Kunze. Moore and Houlston. 



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Nephrodium Filix-fosmina, Michaux. 



Aspidiiun angustum, Willdenow. 



Asplenium elatius. Link. 



Aspidium Filix-foemina, Michaux. 



AtJiyrium angustum, Peesl. 



*' Michauxii, Fee, (not of Galeotti.) 



Asplenium — Spleenwort. Michauxii — Named after Michaux, an 



American botanist. 



In the Section Athyrium of Authors. 



A Lady-Fern-looking species, and indeed so nearly does it 

 resemble some of the forms of Asple7iium Filix-fceminaf that it 

 is with difficulty recognised when the two are growing together. 



Introduced into England in the year 1823. 



A slender, hardy, and deciduous species. 



Native of North America. 



Fronds glabrous, ovate-lanceolate in form, bi-tripinnatifid; 

 pinnae lanceolate in shape, approximate, the basal ones six inches 

 in length; pinnules distant, oblong acuminate, having oblong, 

 obtuse, inciso-serrate segments; pinnules flat, and largest next 

 the rachis. 



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