ASPLENIUM. 



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A. (Euasplenium) bipartitum — Eu-as-ple'-m-um; bip-ar-ti'-tum (divided 

 into two, nearly to the base), Bory. 

 A stove species from the Mascaren Islands, closely related to A. auritum, 

 but of less rigid habit. Its fronds, seldom more than Sin. long and from 

 2in. to 3in. broad, are borne on firm, yet slender, naked stalks of a greyish 

 colour and from oin. to 4in. long ; they are composed of twelve to fifteen 

 pairs of conspicuously-stalked pinnae (leaflets), bluntish at the point and cut 

 down at the base on the upper side into distinctly-stalked, cuneate pinnules 

 (wedge-shaped leafits) of a soft, papery texture. The sori (spore masses) are 

 disposed in two regular rows, which reach nearly to the edge of the pinnules. 

 — Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 178, t. 208. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening i., p. 128. 



A. (Darea) bipinnatum — Da'-re-a ; bip-in-na'-tum (twice divided to the 

 midrib), Brackenridge. 

 A very pretty, stove species, native of Fiji. Its fronds, seldom more 

 than Sin. long, liri. to l|in. broad, and borne on naked, wiry stipes (stalks) 

 of a slender nature, are very elegantly cut ; there are on each side of the 

 rachis (stalk of the leafy portion) from twelve to twenty closely-set pinnae 

 (leaflets) ; these are cut down to their rachis into linear (long and narrow), 

 slightly flattened, somewhat leathery pinnules (leafits), the lowest of which 

 are pinnatifid (divided half-way to the midrib). The small and solitary sori 

 (spore masses) are situated on the margins of the pinnules. — Hooker, 

 Synopsis Filicum, p. 221. 



A. (Euasplenium) bisectum — Eu-as-ple'-m-uui ; bis-ec'-tum (bisected), 

 Swartz. 



A stove species, native of the West Indies and Ecuador, with fronds 

 from 1ft. to l^ft. long, 4in. to 6in. broad, and borne on firm, erect, nearly 

 naked stalks of chestnut-brown colour and 4in. to 6in. long ; they are 

 composed of twenty to thirty pairs of horizontal pinna? (leaflets) 2in. to 3in. 

 long, with a very long, narrow, and deeply-pinnatifid upper portion. These 

 pinnae, of a somewhat leathery texture, show the sori (spore masses) disposed 

 in two parallel rows close to the midrib. — Hooker, Species Filicum, hi., 

 p. 152, t. 192. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 128. 



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