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ASPLENIUM FLABELLIFOLIUM. 
Fan-shape leaved Asplenium. 
CRYPTOGAMIA FILICES._Nat. Ord. FILICES. 
Gen. Char— A^on lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Involucrum e vena lateraliter 
ortum ducens, margine superiore libero.— Br. 
Asplemum fabellifolium ; frondibus pinnatis, pinnulis orbiculato-rhom- 
beis antice crenato-dentatis, rachi laevi apice filiformi nuda radi- 
cante. — Br. 
Asplenium flabelliforme, Cav.— Swartz, Si/n. Fil p. 81. t. 3. f. 2.~Willd. 
Sp. PL V. 5. p. 333— Brown, Prodr. Fl Nov. Holl. p. 150. 
Stipes from 3 to 6 inches long, slender, shining, brownish-green, with a few 
scales at the base. Frond a foot and more in length, simply pinnated. 
Rachis waved, very slender, filiform, glabrous, naked at the extremity, 
and there throwing out roots and new plants, the rest simply pinnated 
with distant pinnae. Pinnce alternate, many of them quite flabelliform 
in form, others rhomboid, approaching to roundish, the base obliquely 
euneate, the extremity broad, obscurely tri-lobed, sharply crenato-den- 
tate, the texture delicate, marked with somewhat radiating, forked 
nerves, upon which the fructifications are situated. 
Sori linear, dark brown, often so closely placed as in age to become con- 
fluent. 
This pretty and very delicate Fern is a native of New 
Holland, and was first described by Cavanilles. It was 
found by Mr Brown about Port Jackson, in Van Diemen's 
Island, and on the southern shores of New Holland. From 
near Port Jackson living specimens were sent to our Botanic 
Garden, along with many other rare Ferns, and still more rare 
orchideous plants, by Mr Frasee, in the year 1825. Hither- 
to we have kept the plant in a warm stove, where it soon grew 
well, and bore fructification. 
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