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THE BOOK OF CHOICE FERNS. 



p. 192. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i, p. 134. Beddome, Ferns of 

 Southern India, t. 129. 



A. Veitchianum — Veitch-i-a'-num (Vdtch's). TMs is identical with 

 A. Belangeri. 



A. (Euasplenium) Yieillardii— Eu-as-ple'-m-um j Vieil-lard'-i-i (Yieil- 



lard's), Mettenius. 



A very graceful, greenhouse species, native of New Caledonia, with fronds 

 6in. to 9in. long, 6in. broad, formed of a large terminal leaflet lengthened out 

 at the point and deeply toothed, and three or four pairs of similar lateral ones 

 4in. long and Jin. broad, of a thin, papery texture and dark green colour. 

 The distantly-placed sori (spore masses) fall short of both edge and midrib. 

 A. schizodon is another name for this species. — Hooker, Synopsis Filicum, 

 p. 200. Nicholson, Dictionary of Gardening, i., p. 135. 



A. Y. apicidens — ap-ic'-id-ens (toothed at the apex). A variety of 

 A. Vieillardii, with more obtuse venation and shortened sori. 



A. (Euasplenium) Yiride— Eu-as-ple'-m-um ; vir'-id-e (green), Hudson. 



This hardy species, which somewhat resembles A. Trichomanes, is a 

 native of the whole of North and Central Europe, also of the Himalayas 

 and Kumaon, where, according to Beddome, it is found at an elevation of 

 12,000ft. Eaton also tells us that it is found growing on shaded rocks from 

 New Brunswick and Northern New England to the Rocky Mountains and 

 British Columbia. 



As a British species the Green Spleenwort is particularly interesting. 

 Its light green colour, more especially in the case of the stalks, is a most 

 distinguishing character in a plant which, as regards size and habit, is 

 very similar to the Maidenhair Spleenwort (A. Trichomanes), from which it 

 differs also by its less erect and more graceful habit. Like that species, it 

 is particularly fond of moist rocks and old walls in cool districts, for, 

 although it has been gathered • in Northumberland ; on the Mazebeck Scars, 

 in Westmoreland ; at Gordale, Settle, near Halifax, and at Black Bank, 

 near Leeds, in Yorkshire, it has not been found in England further south 

 than Derbyshire. The principal places where the Green Spleenwort has been 

 found in Ireland are on Turk Mountain, Killarney ; on Ben Bulben, Sligo ; 



