IX ASPLENIUM. 
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249: Florlcr. Brit. iv. 67: Franc. 49. ASPLEXICM BULOTH, 
F. SchllltZ. ASPLENIDM BOTUNDATUM, KaultuSS. TAKACHIA 
LANCE.OLATA, Presl. 
The Lanceolate Spleen- 
wort has a tufted caudex, 
densely covered with bris- 
tle-like scales, which scales, 
though of smaller size, are 
continued through the 
whole length of the stipes 
and rachis. The fronds 
are from four to eighteen 
inches long, and of propor- 
tionate width, growing 
sometimes nearly erect, in 
other cases drooping, varia- 
tions which are, no doubt, 
dependent on the situa- 
tions in which they are de- 
veloped. Their texture is 
usually rigid, but, when 
developed in dark moist 
situations, it becomes more 
membranous. They remain 
persistent through the win- 
ter, and are terminal and 
adherent to the caudex. 
The stipes is from a third 
to one half the length of 
the frond. The outline of 
the frond is lanceolate. The pinnae, which are pin- 
nate except in a young almost linear form of the 
plant in which they are only slightly lobed and one 
to two inches long stand nearly at a right angle with 
the rachis, often, but by no means always, opposite, the 
lower ones being usually shorter than those about the 
middle of the frond, which are lanceolate. Occasionally, 
[Asplenium lancooJatum.] 
