ASPLENIUM. 



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inasmuch as from half to nearly the whole of the lower side is cut away ; 

 the largest of them are cut down to the rachis into simple or forked, long 

 and narrow pinnules (leafits), the inferior one being the largest. The oblong 

 and solitary sori (spore masses) are often quite marginal. In this pretty Fern 

 the finely-cut fronds, of a bright green colour, are abundantly produced from 

 a short, upright stem ; they also possess the peculiarity of growing perfectly 

 horizontal, and of producing a young plant at their extremity, on which 

 account the plant is very useful for hanging baskets of small dimensions. — 

 Hooker, Filices Exotica?, t. 14. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 128. 

 Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, v., t. 15b. 



Fig 81, Frond of Asplenium brachypteron 



(nat. size). 



A. (Diplazium) Brackenridgei — Dip-laz'-i-um • Brack-en-ridg'-e-i 

 (Brackenridge's), Baker. 

 A stove species, of medium dimensions, native of the Fiji and Philippine 

 Islands, greatly resembling the better-known A. sylvaticum, from which it 

 differs by its pinnae (leaflets), which are broader, distinctly stalked, of a firm 

 texture, and often produce bulbils from their axils. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, 

 p. 234. 



A. (Euasplenium) Bradleyi — Eu-as-ple'-ni-um ■ Brad-ley'-i (Bradley's), 

 Eaton. 



This pretty little, greenhouse species is a native of East Tennessee, 

 where it was discovered growing on shaded sand-rocks on the top of the 

 Walden Ridge, in the Cumberland Mountains ; it has also been found in 

 Morgan, Roane, Edmonson, Estill, and Rockcastle Counties, and in Arkansas, 



