Portion of fertile pinna, under side. 



ASPIDIUM REMOTUM. 



A. Bkaun. Kunze. Fee. Mettenius. 



PLATE XXII. 



Lastrea remota, 



Aspidium rigidum, var. remotum, 



Polystichum remotum. 



MooBE. 

 A. Bbatjn. 

 KooH. 



Aspidium — The Shield Fern. 



Semotum — Distant. 



In the Section Lastrea of Authors. 



The Aspidium remotum is a handsome Fern. It was first 

 discovered in the summer of 1859, in Westmorland, by Mr. 

 F. Clowes, of Windermere, who looked upon it as a form of 

 Lastrea spinulosa. To Mr. Thomas Moore, of the Chelsea 

 Botanic Gardens, we are indebted for bringing the present 

 species before the public. This well-known authority on Ferns 

 received fronds of this plant from Mr. Clowes, and recognised 

 it as the Aspidium remotum of Braun, announcing the discovery 

 to the Linnaean Society on the 15th. of December, 1859. Thus 

 another species has been added to our British Ferns. 



A hardy deciduous species. 



