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ASPLENIUM FLABELLIFOLIUM. 
Fan-shape leaved Asplenvum. 
CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES.—Nar. Orv. FILICES. 
Gen. Cuar.—Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Involucrum e vena lateraliver 
_ ortum ducens, margine superiore libero.—Br. 
: 0 ae flabellifolium ; frondibus pinnatis, pinnulis orbiculato-rhom- 
____ beis antice crenato-dentatis, rachi levi apice filiformi nuda radi- 
cante. —Br. 
Asplenium flabelliforme, Cav.—Swartz, a Fil. p. 81. t. 3. ££ 2—Wittp. 
Sp. Pl. v. 5. p. 333.—Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 150. yes 
: pes from 3 to 6 inches long, slender, shining, brownish-green, with a few 
____ seales at the base. Frond a foot and more in length, simply pinnated. 
__ Rachis waved, very slender, filiform, glabrous, naked at the extremity, 
__ and there throwing out roots and new plants, probengtorencs Ege : 
__with distant pinnz. Pinna alternate, many of them quite flabelliform 
in form, others — approaching to roundish, the base obliquely 
y broad, en- 
"nerves, upon which the fructifications are situated. oo 
‘Sori liner, dark brown ten so ely paced nage to eso con- 
- fluent. a 
This pretty and very delicate Fern is a native of flew a 
d, and was first described by ee It was 
fad by Me teow about Port Jackson, in Van Diemen’s 
Asland, and on the southern shores of New Holland. From 
near Port Jackson living specimens were sent to our Botanic 
Garden, along with many site rare Ferns, and still ‘more rare oe 
-orchideous plants, by Mr Fraser, in the year 1825. _Hither- as 
to we ngs = the eon in a warm stove, where it soon eae ee 
