A SPLENIUM. 



591 



distinctive character of this curious species resides in the rusty-brown colour 



of the hairs densely covering the footstalks on which the fronds are borne. — 



Hooker, Species Filicum, hi., p. 153, t, 193. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, iv. 7 p. 496. 



Fig. 110, Asplenium incisum 



(£ nat. size). 



A. (Euasplenium) Incisum — Eu-as-ple'-m-um ; ui-ci'-sum (incised), 

 Thunberg. 



This greenhouse species (Fig. 110), somewhat resembling the British 

 A. lanceolatum, is a native of Japan, where it is common ; also of Tsus- 



