5^* 



Portion of matui'e Frond — under side. 



ASPIDIUM PROLIFERUM. 



R. Brown. Kunze, {not of Hooker and Greville.) 

 Kaulfuss. Sprengel. 



PLATE XI r. VOL. VI. 



PolystlcJium proliferum^ 

 (I II 



Aspidium vestitum, 

 PoJysticliitm stramineum, 



Aspidium — The Shield Fern. 



Presl. Moore and Houlstox 

 J. Smith. 



WiLLDENOW, {not of SwARTZ, 

 SlEBER, SCHKUHR, nOV FeE.) 



Veitch's, Jun., Catalogue. 

 Proliferum — ProHferous. 



In the Section PoLysTicnuM of Authors. 



Again it is requisite to remark "a handsome plant when well 

 grown;" and also, like Aspidiiim pungens, viviparous near the 

 apex of the frond. 



An evergreen warm greenhouse Fern. 



Native of Van Diemen's Land, (Tasmania,) and New Holland. 



Received into the Royal Gardens, Kew, from Messrs. Osborn, 

 in 1843. 



Fronds linear-lanceolate in form, bipinnate; pinnules petiolate, 

 oblong-ovate, obtuse, sub-falcate; superior base in a small degree 

 auriculate; margin bluntly toothed. Terminal, adherent to a 

 thick tufted rhizoma. 



Rachis and stipes paleaceous. 



