ASPIDIUM MARGINALE, Swartz. 
Evergreen Wood-Fern. 
Aspidium MARGINALE; — Root-stock asccnding, stout, shag- 
gy with long shining-brown chaffy scales ; stalks rather stout, 
a few inches to a foot long, more or less chaffy with shining 
scales ; fronds standing in a crown, one to two feet long, 
evergreen, sub-coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, scarcely narrowed 
at the base, pinnate or sub-bipinnate ; pinnae almost sessile, 
the lowest ones broadest, unequally triangular-lanceolate, the 
middle ones lanceolate-acuminate, slightly broader above the 
base ; pinnules or segments smooth and dark-bluish-green 
above, paler and sometimes slightly chaffy beneath, adnate 
to the narrowly winged secondary rachis, oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, often sub-falcate, varying from crenately-toothed to 
pinnately-lobed with crenulate lobes, obtuse or sub-acute, 
those next the main rachis sometimes distinct, short-stalked, 
sub-cordate at the base and with rounded auricles ; veins free, 
forked or pinnately branched into from two to five curved 
and usually conspicuous veinlets ; sori rather large, placed 
close to the margin of the segments; the orbicular-reniform 
indusia firm in texture, convex, smooth, often lead colored. 
