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other Aspleniums in cultivation. The narrow-oblong and very conspicuous 

 sori (spore masses) are mostly solitary, being disposed parallel with the 



Fig. 117. Asplenium monanthemum — a, Portion of Frond showing the mode of Proliferation usually 

 found on the Basal Pair of Leaflets in Fully-developed Specimens 



(Plant, i nat. size ; Leaflets with Bulbil, i nat. size). 



lower edge of the leaflet ; occasionally, however, there are two or even more 

 to a pinna. — Hooker, Species Filicum, iii., p. 140. Nicholson, Dictionary of 

 Gardening, i., p. 132. Lowe, Ferns British and Exotic, v., t. 1a. 



