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ASPLENIUM. (See " Ferns of Southern India/' p. 42.) 



AsPLENIUM FONTANUM. (Bernh.) Caudex short thick tuberous densely rooting, stipites 1-3 inches in length slender, 

 pale brownish-green densely tufted, fronds 3-6 inches long linear or broad-lanceolate attenuated below, membranaceous, bright green, 

 bipinnate, pinnae approximate £'io',J an inch long, patent or sometimes reflexed, sessile, ovate obtuse, lowest ones dwarfed tripartite, pin- 

 nules obovate or cuneate minute | a line to a line long the base entire, the rest coarsely and spinuloso-dentate, sori few on each pinnule or 

 lobe at length confluent, involucres very small, athyroid white thin membranaceous. — Rook. Sp. FiL iii, p. 193 ; — Bernhard in Schrad, 

 Neu. Journ. 1806 i. part 2, p. 26 ;—Sw. Syn. Fit. p. 57;— Willd. Sp. PI v. p. 272 ;— Engl BoL t. 2fi2i;—Mett, Aspl p. HO; 

 Athyrium Roth. ;— Asplenium Halleri. Willd. Sp. PL v. p. 274. 



The specimen figured is from the Himalayas, (Dr. Stewart.) 



Hab, Europe, Britain, Himalayas. 



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