VIII. ATHYUIUM. 137 
Florigr. Brit. iv. 60. POLTPODKTM HH.OTICUM, Linnaeus (fltla 
Linn. Herb.). ATHYBIUM TONVEXDM, Newm. App. xiii. 
ASPIDIUM IRBIOUUM, Smith Eng. FL iv. 283 : Eng. Bot. t. 
2190, is the young state of this plant. 
The Erect Lady Fern produces 
its delicate green fronds from a 
thick short tufted caudex, to 
which they are terminal and ad- 
herent. They grow erect to the 
height of from one to two or three 
feet, and have a somewhat rigid 
appearance owing to the curled up 
condition of the pinnules, though 
in reality of a soft herbaceous tex- 
ture. The stipes is short, one- 
fourth of the height or less, black 
and much thickened just above 
the base, and there clothed with 
numerous dark-coloured lanceo- 
late scales ; the scales higher up 
the stipes become much narrower 
and fewer, and they 
are continued spar- 
ingly along the 
stoutish rachls. 
Both stipes and 
rachis are not un- 
frequently strongly 
tinged with dull 
purplish red. The 
outline of the frond 
is narrow lanceo- 
late, the lower pin- 
nse being more dis- 
tant, as well as 
shorter and de- 
flexed. The pinnae 
are three or four 
[Athynum rliseticum.] 
