S78 SCALY SPLEEN- WOKT. 



of capsules on the first anterior branch of each lateral vein, and 

 all of them directed towards the apex of the pinnule, except in 

 the first lateral veins, both branches of which bear clusters, the 

 anterior cluster directed as usual, but the posterior towards the 

 midrib of the frond, these are therefore placed back to back : 

 each cluster is accompanied by a narrow erect involucre : the 

 back of the frond is densely clothed with pointed overlapping 

 scales. 



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

 linear-lanceolate, pinnatifid ; the divisions waved or lobed. 



Asplenium Ceterach, Limi. Sp. PL 1538 ; Light/. Fl. Scot. 

 661 ; Iluds. Fl. Ancj. 453 ; Bolt. Fil. Brit. 30, t. 13 ; With. 

 Arr. 767. 

 Scolopendrium Ceterach, Sym. Syn. 193 ; Sm. E. F. iv. 315, 



E. B. 1241. 

 Grammitis Ceterach, Sivartz, Syn. Fil. 33 ; Mack. Fl. Hih. 



337. 

 Gymnogramma Ceterach, Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 38 ; Linh, 



Hort. Berol. ii. 51 ; Lecleb. Flor. Ross. xiv. 507. 

 Ceterach of&cinarum, Willcl. Sp. Plant, v. 136 ; Franc. 30 ; 

 Newm. N. A. 38, F. 393 ; Hook, and Am. 566 ; Bab. 415 ; 

 Moore, 181. 

 Notolepeum Ceterach, Newm. F. 9, Phytol. App. v. 

 Very intelligible figures of this fern are given in Schkulir 

 (Fil. tab. 7), in ' English Botany ' (1244), and Gerarde's ' Her- 

 bal,' (Ger. Em. 1140); those in Bolton (Fil. tab. 7), and many 

 other works, would not be recognized. 



This fern is the Ceterach, spleenwort, or miltwast of Gerarde 

 (Em. 1141), the Ceterach officinarum of Bauhin's 'Pinax' (354), 

 and the Asplenium sive Ceterach of Ray (Syn. 118), and others. 

 Linneus (Sp. Plant. 1537) made it an Asplenium, and subse- 

 quent authors have differed much as to its nomenclature : 

 Smith making it a Scolopendrium ; Swartz, a Grammitis ; and 

 Sprengel a Gymnogramma : each name being adopted by manj' 

 subsequent writers. 



