TEUE MAIDENHAIR, {natural size). 



Genus. — Adiantum. Ultimate divisions of frond stipitate, 

 leaf-like, without a midvein : veins variously branched, free at 

 the extremity : involucre not apparent : clusters of capsules 

 nearly circular, seated on the reflexed bleached margin of frond. 



Species. — Capillus-Veneris. Stipes black, about the same 

 length as the frond : frond deltoid, lax, irregular : pinnse alter- 

 nate, stipitate, irregularly pinnate : pinnules stalked, leaf-like, 

 generally subrhomboid. 



Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, Linn. Sp. PI. 1559 ; Lightf. Fl. 

 Scot. 679; Huds. Fl. Ang. 460; Bolt. Fil. Brit. 24, t. 29; 

 With. Arr. 781 ; Sm. E. F. iv. 320, E. B. 1564 ; Mack. 

 Fl. Hib. 344 ; Franc. 59, t. vi. f. 3 ; Newm. N.A.9, F. 83 ; 

 Hook, and Am. 576; Bab. 416; Moore, 196. 

 Botanists are agreed on the name of this fern, and the figures 

 are generally characteristic. 



