ASVLENIUM VIEIDE. 



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GREEN SPLEENWORT, {half the natural size). 



Genus. — Asplenium. (See page 219). 



Species. — Vieide. Stipes somewhat shorter than the frond, 

 purple at the base, otherwise green : frond very narrow, linear, 

 pinnate: pinnae stalked, distant, lozenge- shaped, toothed: clus- 

 ters of capsules linear, at last confluent, rust-coloured. 



Ipwnpis, iip.m, h. 



Asplenium Trichomanes ramosum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1541 ; With'. 



Bot. An: Veg. 654. 

 Asplenium viridi, Huds. Fl. Ang. 385. 

 Asplenium viride, Lightf. Fl. Scot. 663 ; Huds. Fl. Ang. 453 ; 



Bolt. Fil. Brit. 24, t. 14; With. Arr. 768 ; Sm. E. F. iv. 



306, E. B. 2257 ; Mack. Fl. Hib. 341; Fratic. 47; Newm. 



N. A. 28, F. 281 ; Hook, and Am. 573 ; Bah. 414 ; 



Moore, 165. 

 There are good figures of this fern in ' English Botany ' (tab. 

 2257), and in Schkuhr, (tab. 73). 



