ASPLENIUM MAEINUM. 



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SEA SPLEENWORT, {the Liverpool plant, natural size). 



Genus. — Asplenium. (See page 219). 



Species. — Maeinum. Stipes shorter than the frond : frond 

 pinnate : pinn£e attached by a very narrow base, appearing as 

 if stalked, ovate, serrated : clusters of capsules linear, rust- 

 coloured, always separate. 



Asplenium marinum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1540 ; Light/. Fl. Scot. 



664 ; Hiicls. Fl. Ang. 453 ; Bolt. Fil. Brit. 26, t. 15 ; 



With. Arr. 769 ; Sm. E. F. iv. 307, E. B. 392 ; Mack. Fl. 



Hih. 341 ; Franc. 49 ; Newm. N. A. 27, F. 276, Phytol. 



App. ix. ; Hook, and Am. 573 ; Bab. 414 ; Moore, 159. 

 Adiantum trapeziforme, Huds. Fl. Ang. 460 ; With. Bot. 



Arr. Veg. 655; but certainly not oi Linn. Sp. PI. 1559, as 



cited by early English autliors. 

 Adiantum trapeziferme. Berk. Syn. ii. 309. 

 There is a good figure of this fern in Bolton's ' Filices' (tab. 

 15), another in ' English Botany ' (392), and a third in Hook- 

 er's ' Flora Londinensis' (t. 60). 



