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Portion of mature Frond — under side. 



ASPIDIUM AUGESCENS. 



Link. Kunze. Fee. Petiver. Plumier. Sloan. 



PLATE X. VOL. VI. 



Lastrea aiigescens, 

 Neplirodium Ottonis, 

 Aspidium Ottonianum^ 

 Lastrea serra, 

 Aspidium serra. 



j. houlston. 

 Of Ga.edexs. 

 Kunze. 

 Of Gaedens. 

 Of Schott. 



Moore. Smith. 



Aspidium — The Sliield Fern. 



Auffescem 



In the Section Lastrea of Authors. 



Another ornamental Fern, with pale green fronds. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Cuba, Venezuela, Caracas, Mexico, and Caribee. 



Fronds slender, semi-erect, broadly-lanceolate in form, pubes- 

 cent, pinnate, the pinnae being linear lanceolate, (very narrow 

 for their length,) sessile, pinnatifid, the segments being rigid, 

 small, oblong-obtuse, and largest nearest the rachis. Fronds 

 lateral, adherent to a creeping rhizoma. 



Length from three to four feet; colour pale green. 



Sori medial, and often only partial. Indusium hairy. 



Best known as the Lastrea augescens. 



My thanks are due to Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter; Messrs. 



