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ASPLENIEvE. 



ASPLENIUM SEPTENTRIONALE (Sw.) Small caudex creeping densely radiculose scarcely paleaceous, stipites numerous 

 tufted 3-6 inches high, erect flexuose green brown at the base, fronds 1-2 inches long, coriaceous glabrous pinnated pinnse f-1 inch long, 

 long-petioled linear or linear-lanceolate subunguiculate often very acute or acuminate rarely solitary generally 2-3 alternate entire or 

 forked, lateral segments small subulate rarely laciniated (2-3 acuminate segments), veins forked parallel, sori very ong, involucres also 

 much elongated attached near the margin.— Hook. Sp. Fil, iii. 174— Sw. in Schrad. Journ. ii. p. 283.—Willd. Sp. PI, v. p. 307.— 

 Schk. Fil. p. 62. t, 65.— Engl Sot. t. 1,017.— Metten. Asplen. Fil. Hort, Lips. p. 76 t. 13 /. 21.— Moore, Ferns Nat. Print t. 41 c— 

 Metten. Asplen. p. 141.— Acropteris, Link. Fee. Gen. Fil. p. 77, t. 6. A. f. 1.— Amesium, Newm.— Acrostichum, Linn. Sp. PL p. 1,524. 



Hab. Northern India, Kashmir, (elevation 9,000 feet,) Garhwal, (elevation 11,000 feet,) Europe from Norway the extreme 

 South, Caucasus, l^ral and Altai — New Mexico. 



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