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AsPLENIUM VIRIDE. (Huds.) Caudices short creeping clothed with black subulate scales forming a closely compacted 

 rootino- mass, stipites densely coespitose 2-4 inches long slender glossy black below then castaneous nearer the fronds stramineous, fronds 

 3-5 rarely 6 inches long linear-lanceolate membranaceous bright-green (as is the slender rachis) glabrous scarcely acuminated pinnated, 

 pinn* 2-3 lines long rather distant pinnate all petiolate rhombeo-ovate obtuse more or less obliquely cuneate at the base deeply but 

 rather irregularly crenate. Scarcely at all lobed, veins sub-flabellate, sori 2-4 near the disc remote from the margin oblong oblique at 

 length confluent, involucres very thin membranaceous soon obliterated.— Hook. Sp. Fil. iii. 144.— Huds. Fl, Aug. p. i5Z.—Sw. Syn, 

 Fil. p. 80.— Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 332.— Schk Fil. p. 68 t. 73.—Fng. Bot. t, 392.— Moore and Lindl. Ferns, Nat. Print t. iO.—Metlen. 

 Asplen. p. 139 ;— A. Trichomanes, var. ramosum, Linn. Sp. PL p. 1,541 ;— A. intermedium, Pr, Del. Frag, 1-233,— 2V?tf. Pttrid, t. 3. 

 y, 22 ;— A. umbrosum, Vill. 



Hab. Throughout Europe, Himalayas, Kumaon (alt. 12,000 feet), N. America. 



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