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shaped at the base and serrated at the margin ;. 
fertile frond almost three-pinnate with the secon- 
dary pinnze cut down toa winged rachis into 
very narrow simple or forked linear pinnules or 
segments ; sometimes fertile and sterile pinne 
on the same frond. Textufe herbaceous. Sori 
linear, one to each segment. 
Cultivated. 
Distribution : Norfolk Island. 
6. Asplenium viviparwm Pres. 
Stipe 6-9 inches long, firm, erect, greenish,. 
covered with deciduous hair-pointed scales. 
Frond 1-2 feet long, 6-8 inches broad; pinne 
4-6 inches long, 14-2 inches broad, cut down 
to a compressed rachis into numerous pinnati- 
fid pinnules ; ultimate segments narrow, linear,. 
often forked. Pinnz proliferous. 
Cultivated. The garden synonym for this. 
fern is Asplenium bulbiferum (Hort.). 
Distribution: Mauritius and Bourbon. 
7. Asplenium belangert Kze. 
Caudex short, stout, erect. Stipe 4-8 inches 
long, erect, greenish. Fronds 1-2 feet long, 
2-3 inches broad, bearing on each side nume- 
rous horizontal pinnz, which are cut down 
