ASPLENIUM. 



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notched and toothed, and form a broad head almost round in shape. If not 

 entirely barren, it is but very seldom that this variety has been known to 

 produce spores, and its propagation invariably takes place by means of the 

 division of its crowns. — Lowe, Our Native Ferns, ii., p. 74, t. 38. Nicholson, 

 Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 130. 



Fig. 93. Frond of Asplenium Filix-fcemitm acroclaclon 

 (J nat. size). 



A. F.-f. acuminatum — ac-u'-min-a'-tum (taper -pointed), Moore. 



A very singular and interesting variety, of dwarf habit, originally found 

 on Snowdon. Its fronds, broadly spear-shaped and about 1ft. in length, have 

 their pumas (leaflets) crowded, short, deflexed below, the longest of them 

 terminating in a serrated, tapering point. The dentation of the pinnules 

 (leafits) and lobes is also sharp and long. The abundant sori (spore 

 masses) are situated in lines near the costa (miclvein). — Lowe, Our Native 

 Ferns, ii., p. 12, fig. 286. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 130. 



A. F.-f. apiculatum — ap-ic-ul-a'-tuni (apiculate), Lyall. 



A lovely, delicate, slender form, native of Fifeshire, with fronds 9in. to 

 15in. long and about 3in. broad, furnished with narrow and caudate (tailed) 



