ASPLENIUM. 



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to the edge and are copiously double. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 270. 

 Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 129. Beddome, Ferns of British 

 India, t. 292. 



Fig, 88. Frond of Asplenium decussatum 

 (much reduced). 



A. (Euasplenium) dentatum — Eu-as-ple'-ni-um ; den-ta'-tum (toothed), 

 Linnosus. 



This stove species, native of the West Indies and Tropical America, is 

 also very common in some parts of North America, where Eaton says it is 

 called the Toothed Spleenwort, and is found in holes and crevices of lime-rock 

 in a hummock at Miami, Florida, and also in Carolina in similar situations. 

 Dr. Grarber, who first discovered it there, says : " Like the other small 

 species of the genus, it grows out of the crevices of lime-rock, and sometimes 

 by the close grouping of the little tufts covers the entire face of shaded 



