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the lower ones are 3in. to 4in. long, Ian. broad, with broad, blunt lobes 

 reaching half-way down to the midrib. The sori (spore masses) are prominent, 

 the lower ones being sometimes Jin. long. This species is also known as 

 A. giganteum. — Hooker, Species Filicum,, iii., p. 261. Nicholson, Dictionary 

 of Gardening, i., p. 133. 



A. (Euasplenium) Rawsoni — Eu-as-ple'-m-um ; Raw'-son-i (Rawson's), 

 Baker. 



A pretty little, greenhouse species, indigenous in the Muizenberg Mountain, 

 Cape Colony, with fronds only Sin. or 4in. long, of a somewhat leathery 

 texture, dull green in colour, and bipinnate (twice divided to the midrib). 

 The sori (spore masses), situated on the mid vein, become confluent in an 

 irregular mass filling up the centre of the pinnule (leant). — Hooker, Synopsis 

 Filicum, p. 487. 



A. reclinatum — rec-li-na'-tum (reclining). A variety of A. lunulatum with 

 fronds copiously proliferous at their extremity. 



A. refractum — ref-rac'-tum (abruptly bent back), Moore. 



This singular Fern, which is given by Moore in his " Nature-printed 

 Ferns " as a species, was originally found in Scotland by a gardener, who 

 gathered it for A. viri.de. Hooker and Baker, however, recognise it only as 

 a variety of A. fontanum, from which it differs by its fronds being longer and 

 narrower in proportion and by their leaflets being refracted (suddenly thrown 

 back) in a remarkable degree and less divided. It is also distinct from that 

 species in its spreading habit of growth and in its proliferous fronds, the 

 small bulbils being mostly formed at the base of the leaflets. The short and 

 oblong sori (spore masses) are disposed in a line on each side near the midvein 

 of the leaflets. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, p. 216. Lowe, Ferns British and 

 Exotic, v., t. 35a. 



A. (Euasplenium) repens — Eu-as-ple'-m-um ; re'-pens (creeping), 

 Hooker. 



A stove species, of small dimensions, native of the Andes of Ecuador, 

 having fronds only 2in. long, bipinnatifid (twice cut nearly to the midrib), 

 furnished with horizontal leaflets of thin texture, divided into wedge-shaped 



