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1. FILJCES. 7. Asplenium. IS 
4. Asplemum Germanicum. German spleenwort . 
Frond pinnate; leaflets alternate, lanceolate, cuneate, 
toothed at the tip, the lower ones two-parted. 
Scolopendrium alternifolium, Roth Germ. 3,53. 
Aspleniutn alternifolium, With. 768. 
Asplenium Breynii, Swartz Syn, Fit. 85. 
Aspleniutn Germanicum, Weis Crypt. 299. 
Alternate-leaved spleenwort. 
Subalpine rocks ; perennial ; June to October. 
Root black : fronds numerous, 6 in. high, erect, light 
green, smooth ; leaflets alternate ; sori few, short, pale. 
5. Asplenium saxatile. Rock spleenwort. 
Frond pinnate; leaflets subrotundo-oblong, obtuse, cre- 
nate, truncato-cuneate ; stipes blackish brown, shining, 
keeled below. 
Trichomanes, Raii Syn. 119, 1 ; Park , 1051. 
T. mas, Ger. em. 1146. 
Asplenium Trichomanes, Lin. S. P. 1540. 
Asplenium saxatile, Sal. Prod. 403. 
English black maidenhair. 
Shaded rocks and old walls ; perennial; all the year. 
Root black, hairy, cespitose ; fronds numerous, 6 in. 
high ; rachis dark purple, smooth, shining ; leaflets smooth, 
without veins, very dark green above, paler below ; invo- 
valuer a whitish ; capsules brown. 
0. incisum . Leaflets pinnatifid; sometimes very long. 
Trichomanes foliis elegantis incisis, Raii Syn. 120,2. 
y. ramosissimum. Frond very much branched at top. 
6. Asplemum viride . Green spleenwort . 
Frond pinnate; leaflets subrotundo-ovate, wedgeshape 
at the base, obtusely serrate ; rachis green, flat beneath. 
Trichomanes costa viridi, quandoque bifida, foliis lenticularibus cre- 
natis, Lhwyd in Raii Syn. 119, 2. 
Asplenium viride, Hud. FI. Ang. 453. 
Moist alpine rocks ; perennial ; June, July. 
Frond about 6 in. high, linear-lanceolate, paler than 
A. saxatile ; rachis rather four-sided, or flattened below ; 
involucra and capsules yellowish. 
0. ramosum. Rachis divided. 
Trichomanes ramosum, Raii Syn. 119, 2. 
Trichomanes feemina, Ger. 985. 
Branched English black maidenhair , 
