ASPIDIUM FRAGRANS, Swartz. 
Fragrant Wood-Fern, 
Aspidium FRAGRANS : — Root-stock short and stout, very 
chaffy, with ample bright-brown glossy scales, which also abound 
on the short clustered stalks, and extend, diminishing in size, 
nearly to the top of the frond ; fronds rigid - membranaceous, 
glandular, aromatic, four to ten inches long, six to twenty-four 
lines wide, lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed from the middle to 
the base, bipinnate ; pinnae numerous, oblong-lanceolate ; pin- 
nules many, one to two lines long, oblong, obtuse, adnate by 
a decurrent base, pinnately incised with very minute crenated 
teeth, or in smaller fronds nearly entire, the back nearly hidden 
by the large thin imbricating indusia, which are orbicular with 
a narrow sinus, and more or less toothed and glandular around 
the margin. 
Aspidium fragrans, Swartz, Syn. Fil., p. 51. — Willdexow, Sp. PI., v., 
p. 253. — Hooker, in “Parry’s 2d Voy., App., p. 410 ; ” FI. Bor. 
Am., p. 410. — Ruprecht, Distr. Ciypt. Vase. Imp. Ross., p. 35. 
— Mettenius, Aspid., p. 56. — Gray, Manual, ed. 2, p. 598. — 
Milde, Fil. Eur. et Atlant., p. 117. 
Polypodiuvi fragrans, Linnajus, Sp. PI., p. 1550. 
Polystichum fragrans^ Ledebour, “FI. Ross., iv., p. 514.” — Maximowicz, 
Prim. FI. Amur., p. 339. 
