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disk in eacli is reticulated, the elastic ring largo, and the 
seeds round. 
Such is the elaborate description given by Hooker, who 
seems to have regarded the Filmy-fern with no ordinary 
interest. It was, perhaps, associated in his mind with many 
a pleasant summer ramble. 
The Rue-leaved Spleenwort, Asplemum rutamuraria of 
RVR-LK iVl.D BPI/RKNWORT 
