TAB. LXXVI. 
Actiniopteris radiata, Link . ft . 
(For figure and description of the usual form of this plant, 
see our preceding plate, Tab. 75, and description). 
/ 3 . frondibus magis elongatis, segmentis paucioribus vix 
radiatis, apicibus fere omnibus integerrimis subulatis. 
(Tab. Nostr. 76). 
Actiniopteris australis. Link , Fil. Sp. Hort. Berol. p. 80. 
Asplenium australe, Sw. Syn . Fil. p . 76. and 258. t. 3. 
Willd. Sp, PI, 5. p, 308. 
Acrostichum australe, Linn. Suppl, p. 444. 
Pteris australis, Hook, et Grev. Ic. Fil, t . 8. 
Acropteris australis. Fee. Gen. Fil.p. 76. 
Blechnum flabellatum, Presl, Tent . Pterid. p. 103. 
Hab. Mauritius and Bourbon, Sonnerat , Carmichael , and 
others. Schoata, near Enderder, Abyssinia, Schimper , 
n. 577. 
It requires an extensive suite of specimens, such as perhaps 
our own Herbarium alone possesses, of this plant, to satisfy 
oneself that the state of the elegant Fern here figured and 
that in the preceding plate belong to one and the same species. 
The extreme forms known to us are given in the two plates now 
mentioned. At Tab. 75. f. 2. we have one extreme, at our 
Tab. 76. f. 4. the other extreme; but these are surely connected 
by the other examples on the same plates. We cannot agree 
with those Botanists who would retain so remarkable a plant 
as the present in Asplenium, nor yet with those who would 
unite it with the Asplenium septentrionale , (. Acropteris of Link). 
The habit and texture and ramification are totally different. 
Tab. 76. Actiniopteris radiata, /?. — Fig. 1. Abyssinian 
specimen from Dr. Schimper : — nat. size. f. 2. Segments of 
a fertile frond : — magnified, f. 3. Smaller portion : — more 
highly magnified, f. 4. Specimen from Bourbon, commu- 
nicated by the Paris Museum, f. 5. Portion of a fertile 
segment : — magnified. 
