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n 7. Asplenium. 1. FILICES. 
smooth; pinnce opposite; stipes short, smooth; sort 3-5 
short, becoming confluent : involucra whitish ; edge torn. 
2. Asplenium lucidum. Shining spleenwort . 
Frond bipinnate ; pinnce oblong-lanceolate, acute ; leaf- 
lets oblong, pinnatifld ; lobes toothed at the tip ; sori 
become confluent; margin of the involucra not notched. 
Filix f Genii na q. Adiantum nigrum officinarum J. Bauhini, Raii Syn. 
126, 10. 
Onopteris mas, Ger. cm. 1 1ST. 
Adiantum nigrum vulgare, Park. 1049. 
Asplenium Adiantum nigrum, Lin. S. P. 1541 r 
Asplenium lucidum, Sal. Prod. 413. 
Black maidenhair. Oakfern. 
Roots of trees, old walls, and shady banks ; perennial ; 
J une— October. 
Root black; frond erect, a foot high, sharp pointed, very 
dark green, smooth; stipes long, dark purple, shining; 
son many ; involucra very thin, margin not in the least 
notched. 
Demulcent, bechic, diuretic, nephritic; and praised by 
Hoffmann as an antiscorbutic. 
0. sterile. Leaflets barren, membranaceous, elegantly 
palmato-laciniate. 
Filix foemina q. F. minor longifolia, tarsis raris, pinnulis longis, tenuis- 
simis et oblongis laciniis fimbriatis Sherard, Raii Syn. 127, 13. 
In caves, where the sun’s rays cannot enter. 
3. Asplenium marinum . Marine spleenwort. 
Frond pinnate; leaflets oblong, obtuse, inciso-serrate ; 
the base rounded and subarticulate above, truncated below. 
Filix Alpina.q, Chamsefilix marina Anglica J. Bauhin, Raii Syn. 119. 2. 
F. marina Anglica, Park. 1045. 
Filicula petraea feemina, seu Chamaefilix marina Anglica, Ger. em. 1143. 
Asplenium marinum, Lin. S. P. 1540. 
Hocks on the sea coasts : perennial ; June, October. 
Roots black, scaly ; frond of various sizes ; stipes black, 
smooth ; leaflets alternate, dark green, veiny ; rachis winged; 
sori opposite ; involucra brown, not in the least notched. 
Opening, emmenagogue ; the mucilaginous extract 
useful in severe burns and scalds. 
|3. trapeziforme. Leaflets, lobed or jagged. 
Capillus Veneris q. Adiantum majus coriandri folio, adianto vero affine, 
pediculo pallide rubente Sibbaldi, Raii Syn. 124, 2, 
Adiantum trapeziforme, Huds. FI, Ang. 460, 
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