A Dictionary of Choice Ferns. 
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ASPLtK^lXjyi— continued. 
rhizome, bipinnate, and furnished with elongated leaflets 
of a leathery texture and dark green in colour, narrowing 
to a point and divided into leafits with a sharply-toothed 
margin. The sori are disposed in narrow, oblique lines 
extending from the midvein to very near the edge of the 
pinnules. 
A. rutsefolium prolon^atum. 
This is a variety which, on account of the drooping habit 
of its fronds and of their highly proliferous nature, is very 
distinct from the original species (Fig. 76). It is indigenous 
Fif. 76. Asplenium rutaefolium, a beautiful species for the 
greenliouse. 
in Southern India, and, according to Beddome, is abundant 
on the Shevagherry Hills, although rare in other localities. 
Its fronds, 4in. to Gin. long, of the same leathery texture 
as those of the species, suddenly terminate in a tail- 
like naked extension of the rachis, lin. to 2in. long, having 
at its extremity a proliferous bulbil. The leaflets are divided 
and subdivided much in the same way as those of 
A, rutcefolium, but they are less closely placed, and the spore 
masses are disposed on the margin of the pinnules as is the 
case in the species. 
A. Sanderson!. 
This pretty and very distinct greenhouse species 
(Fig. 77) is a native of Natal, Zambesi Land, and Johanna 
