596 FILICES. (fekns.) 



obtuse, crenately pinnatifid-toothed, with a single smooth fruit-dot just beloi* 

 the sinus between each rounded minutely-toothed lobe. (W. Perriniana, Hook. 

 §• Grev. Aspidium obtusum, WiUd.) — Rocky banks and cliffs; common, es- 

 pecially westward. July. 



52. WOODSIA Pkoper. — Indusium minute or evanescent, open and flattened 

 from an early stage and concealed, under the fruit-dot, except the fringe of bristly- 

 chaffy hairs into which its margin is dissected. 



2. W. Ilvensis, E. Brown. Frond oblong-lanceolate (2' -4' long by 1' 

 wide), smoothish and green above, thickly clothed underneath as well as the stalk 

 with rusty bristle-lilce chaff, pinnate ; the pinnse crowded, oblong, obtuse, sessile, 

 pinnately parted, the numerous crowded pinnules oblong, obtuse, obscurely crenate, 

 almost coriaceous, the fi-uit-dots near the margin, somewhat confluent when old. 

 (Nephrodium rnfidulura, Michx.) — Exposed rocks, common, especially north- 

 ward, and southward in the Alleghanies. June. (Eu.) 



3. W. glsi1>ell», R. Brown. Smooth and naked throughout ; frond linear 

 (2' - 5' high), pinnate ; pinrm rather remote towards the short stalk, rhombic-ovate, 

 veiy obtuse (2" - 4" long), cut into 3-7 rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped lobes, — 

 Rocks, Little Falls, New York ( Vasey) ; Willoughby Mountain, Vermont ( Wood, 

 C. C. Frost) ; and high northward. 



13. CYSTOPTERIS, Bemhardi. Bladdek-Eebn. (Tab. 12.) 



Eruit-dots roundish, borne on the back of a straight fork' of the free veins ; 

 the delicate indusium hood-like or arched, attached by a broad base on the inner 

 side (towards the midrib) partly under the fruitdot, early opening free at the 

 other side, which looks toward the apex of the lobe, and is somewhat jagged, 

 soon thrown back or withering away. — Tufted Eerns with slender and deli- 

 cate 2-3-pinnate fronds; the lobes cuttoothed. (Name composed of kvotis, 

 a bladder, and Trrepi's, Fern, from the inflated indusium.) 



1. C. bnlbifera, Bemh. Frond lanceolate, elongated (l°-2° long), 2- 

 pinnate; the pinnae lance-oblong, pointed, horizontal (l'-2' long); the rhachis 

 and pinnae often bearing bulblets underneath, ivingless; pinnules crowded, oblong, 

 obtuse, toothed or pinnatifid ; indusium short, truncate on the free side. (As- 

 pidium bulbiferum, Swartz. A. atomaiium, Muhl. !) — Shaded, moist rocks ; 

 common. July. 



2. C. friigiliS; Bernh. Frond oblong-lanceolate (4' -8' long, besides the 

 stalk which is fully as long), 2 - 3-pinnate ; the pinnse and pinnules ovate or lan- 

 ceolate in outline, irregularly pinnatifid or cut-toothed, mostly acute, decurrent 

 on the margined or winged rhachis ; indusium tapering or acute at the free end. — 

 Var. dentXta, Hook, is narrower and less divided, barely twice pinnate, with 

 ovate obtuse and bluntly-toothed pinnules. (Aspidium tenue, Swarlz.) — Shaded 

 cliffs ; common : very variable. July. (Eu.) 



14. ASPIDIUM, Swartz. Shield-Eeen. Wood-Fekn. (Tab. 12.) 



Fniit-dots round or roundish, borne on the back or sometimes on the ex- 

 tremity of (in our species) pinnate and free veins, scattered, or sometimes 



