PERNS OF NATAL. 
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snore ot less crescent shaped, especially those nearest to the primary veins; 
fthe rest to the Section Daren distinguished by narrowly linear ultimate 
segments with usually but one sorus to each. The Asplenia are well re- 
presented in Natal : they are generally tufted, low growing ferus, and they 
differ in size from A. Krausii, the smallest, to A. anisopkyltuin, which m 
favourable situations is found 3 or 4 feet high. On and about Noodsberg 
they are very plentiful, a many species being found within a very limited 
area. 
Section Eo-Asplenium. 
A, once pinnate . 
a, rachis, brown, polished, veins indistinct. 
Sori numerous, base of pinna; truncate Tricho manes. 
,, ,, „ hastate or cordate... ebeneum. 
,, few, 1 or 2 to a pinna mon anthem uni. 
b, Rachis, brown, p ■dished, veins conspicuous. 
Pinnae 3fl to 40 pairs, acuminate, sharply toothed harpeodis. 
„ „ „ rounded, crenate ... ... lunulatuin. 
„ 15 to 25 „ broad, unequally toothed brachyotus, 
,, ,, deeply lobed, lobes toothed protensum. 
Rhizome creeping, sori close to midrib serra. 
e, Rachis. green or grey. 
Pinnae oblong lanceolate, conspicuously toothed anisophyllum. 
„ ovate, acuminate, entire or nearly so ... gernmi/emm. 
„ „ „ finely serrate, lowest pinna; 
small, rounded Prionitis. 
d, small, moss lihe plants. 
Upper edge of pinna;, sharply toothed ... ... Krausii. 
,, „ bluntly lobed ... ... ... Sandersoni. 
B, Bi to tri-pinnate. 
Bipinnate, membranaceous gracile, 
Sori in centre of segments, st. and rachis brown A dian turn-nigrum, 
,, „ „ ,, greenish various. 
„ flabellate, rachis naked cuneatum. 
„ ,, ,, fibrillose ... ... fureatum. 
Section Darea. 
Pinnate, segments more numerous on upper side of pinna; brachgpteron, 
„ „ equal on each side or nearly so Thunbergii. 
Bipinnate ... ... ... ... ... ruteefolium. 
Section Athyricm. 
Rhiz. creeping 
St. tufted, pinnules stalked ... ... 
„ „ „ deeurrent ... .,. ... 
Schimperi. 
aspidioides. 
Filix-fcemina. 
A. Kraus it. 
A small mosslike plant growing in masses in damp shady places, and 
.about the roots of old trees. It is pinnate, with 10 to 20 pairs of sessile 
pinnae; which are ovate, and sharply toothed on the outer edge, but flu 
upper and lower ones are entire. Veins flabellate, one being carried into 
-each tooth ; sori 1-3, pinnae oblique ; indusium opening towards the •enter 
•of the pinna. It is a native of the upper districts. 
