TAB. XXXII. 
Asplenium fragile, Presl. 
Pusillum casspitosum fragile, frondibus submembranaceis 
linearibus acutis pinnatis, pinnis oblique deltoideo-ovatis 
rbomboideisve acutis subflabellatis inciso-lobatis dentatisve, 
soris involucrisque oblongis, rachibus viridibus superne 
fuscis, stipitibus atro-fuscis non raro bulbilliferis, bulbillis 
yiviparis. 
Asplenium fragile, Presl , Tent. Pterid. p. 108. Klotzsch , in 
Linncea , v. 20. p. 355. 
A. stoloniferum, Presl , Reliq . Hcenh . 1. p. 44. t. 6.f. 4. excl. 
Syn. 
Hab. Mountains of Peru, Hcenke . Chimborazo, Humboldt , on 
rocks at an elev. of 14,000 feet, Jameson . Paramo de Mu- 
cuchies, Columbia, Moritz . n. 326. 
Were it not for the curious little viviparous bulbilli seen 
upon the stipes of the present plant, it would be difficult to 
say in what respect this species differs from Aspl. viride of the 
European Alps : and it is possible that this peculiarity may 
originate in its elevated locality, which is no doubt very con- 
siderable at all times on the Andes of Columbia. Hasnke’s 
countries are always doubtful, for his plants, as given by 
Presl. Dr. Jameson’s are stated with much exactness. The 
accurate Kunze in Linnaea, v. 13. p. 140, has given this Fern 
as an inhabitant of Mexico (“ad muros Hacienda de Regia 
legit C. Hhrenberg”); but as he describes the largest fronds 
(frondes maximse) to be only two inches long, and the stipes 
(short) as “glandular, paleaceous and green,” the probability 
is, I think, that the two plants are different. 
Fig. 1 . 2. Fertile pinna, seen from beneath: — magnified. 
