Pinna of mature Frond— upper side. 



ASPIDIUM CICUTARIUM. 

 SwARTZ. J. Smith. 



PLATE XLV. VOL. VI. 



Polypodium cicutarium, 



" hijpjpocrepis, 



Sagenia Mppocrepis, 



m, liippocrepis, 



apifolium, 



lati folium, 



LlNN^US. 



Jacquin. 



Peesl. Mooee and Houlston. Fee. 



SwAETz. Plumiee. Kunze. Speengel. 



SCHKUHE. 



Peesl. 



Aspidium — The Shield Fern. 



Cicutarium — Cow-bane-Hke. 



In the Section Sagenia of some Authors. 



A rare handsome plant, apparently requiring considerable 

 care to cultivate it successfully. 



An evergreen stove Fern. 



Native of Jamaica, the West Indies, Mexico, and New 

 Grenada. 



The fronds, which are glabrous, are of a triangularly-elongate 

 form; bipinnatifid, having oblong-acuminate pinnse, and oblong- 

 obtuse segments, with a crenate margin. 



Terminal, being adherent to an erect rhizoma. 



Sori produced on the apex of a free veinlet within the 

 areoles, somewhat reniform. 



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