Pinna of mature Frond—under side. 



ASPIDIUM PATENS. 



KuNZE. Link? Fee. Willdenow. Schkuhr. 



SWARTZ. SCHOTT. SlOAN. SpRENGEL. SCHLECHTENDAL. 



PLATES III AND IV. VOL VII. 



Lastrea patens, 

 Aspidium molle, 

 JPolypodium patens, 



" expansum, 



Peesl. Liebmann. 



Link. 



AlTON. 

 POIEET. 



Aspidium — The Shield Fern, 



Patens — Spreading. 



In the Section Lastrea of Authors. 



A WELL-KNOWN Fern, easily cultivated, and very ornamental. 



An evergreen stove species. 



Native of Tropical America, Africa, and Asia — Mexico and 

 the "West Indies. 



Introduced into the Hoyal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1784. 



The fronds, which are broadly lanceolate in form, are pin- 

 nate; the pinnae sessile, profoundly pinnatifid, lanceolate, and 

 having linear-oblong, sub-falcate segments, which have an acute 

 apex, and are largest near the rachis. 



