116 ASPIDIUM PTEROIDES. 



Fronds minutely pubescent on the veins on the under side. 

 Lateral, being adherent to a slender creeping rhizoma. 



Sori medial, on either side the primary veins, eventually 

 becoming confluent; formed only along the edges of the pinnge. 



Length of frond twenty-four inches; colour bright green. 



Introduced into the E-oyal Gardens, Kew, in 1847, by Mr. 

 G. Gardner. 



For plants I am indebted to Mr. J. Henderson, of Wentworth, 

 and to Mr. R. Sim, of Foot's Cray. 



It can be procured of Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea; Sim, of 

 Foot's Cray; and Stansfield, of Todmorden. 



The illustration is from a plant in my own collection. 



