ASPIDIUM GOLDIANUM, Hooker. 
Goldie’s Wood-Fern. 
Aspidium Goldianum : — Root-stock stout, ascending, 
chaffy; stalks about a foot long, chaffy at the base with 
large ovate -acuminate ferruginous or deep -lustrous -brown 
scales; fronds standing in a crown, one to two and a half 
feet long, broadly ovate, or the fertile ones oblong-ovate, 
chartaceo-membranaceous, nearly smooth, bright-green above, 
a little paler beneath, pinnate; pinnae broadly lanceolate, five 
to eight inches long, one to two and a half broad, usually, 
especially the lowest ones, narrower at the base than in the 
middle, pinnatifid almost to the midrib; segments numerous, 
oblong-linear, often slightly falcate, crenate, or serrate with 
sharp incurved teeth; veins free, mostly with three veinlets, 
the lowest superior veinlets bearing near their base the large 
sori very near the midvein ; indusium large, flat, smooth, or- 
bicular with a narrow sinus. 
Aspidium Goldianum, Hooker, in Goldie’s Acc. of rare Canad. PI. in 
Edinb. Phil. Journ., vi., p. 333; FI. Am.-Bor., ii., p. 260. — 
Torrey, FI. New York, ii., p. 495. — Gray, Manual, ed. ii., p. 
598, ed. V., p. 666. — Mettenius, Fil. Hort. Lips., p. 92; 
Aspid., p. 56. — Williamson, Ferns of Kentucky, p. 95, t. xxxiv. 
