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FERNS. 
[Aspleniuui. 
9. — ASPLENIUM LANCEOLATUM. 
LANCEOLATE SPLEENWORT. 
(Plate 3, fig. 9.) 
Cha. — Frond lanceolate, bipinnate. Pinnae and pinnules obo- 
vate, sharply toothed at the apex. 
Syn. — Asplenium Ianceolatum, Huds., Sivz., Hoffm., Willd., Smith, Hook., 
Forst., With., Galp., Gray. — Phillitis lancifolia, Moench. 
Fig.— E. B. 240 .—Ger. Herb. 1135. 
Des. — Frond lanceolate, bipinnate, from 3 to 6 inches high, up- 
right in habit, and of a light green color. Rachis green, minutely 
hairy, not winged, void of pinnae below. Pinnae opposite, from 12 to 
20 pairs, the lower pair short, distant from the next, and often 
slightly drooping. Pinnules ovate, sharply serrated and pointed, the 
smaller confluent, the larger petioled and tapering at the base, par- 
ticularly that on the upper side next the rachis. Sori light brown, 
one or two near the middle of each lobe, at first linear, afterwards 
round, but very rarely or never covering the whole under surface. 
This fern has been repeatedly confounded with Asplenium Adiantum Nigrum, 
though there is so great a dissimilarity between them ; our present species is of 
a different shape, color, size and habit, its divisions less numerous, the naked 
part of its stem shorter, and its sori less extended: in fact they vary in almost 
every particular. 
Sit. — On rocks, &c. in the south of England, and in Wales. 
Hae. — On the walls of the Church of St. Sancret, near the Land’s End, 
Cornwall, Mr. Jones. Abundant around Penzance and St. Ives, Mr. H. C. 
Watson. Scilly Islands, Mr. W. C. Trevelyan. Sussex, Mr. Borrer. High 
rocks near Tunbridge Wells (1835), Mr. W. Pamplin. Near Barmouth (plen- 
tiful), Mr. J. E. Bowman and Mr. W. Wilson. 
Geo. — Azores, Bohemia, Hungary, France. 
10.— ASPLENIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 
LADY FEKN. 
(Plate 3, fig. 10.) 
Cha. — Frond broadly lanceolate, bipinnate. Pinna: tapering, 
pointed. Pinnules oblong, inciso-serrate. Rachis smooth. 
Syn. — Asplenium Filix-foemina, Hook., Mack., Sprcng., Bernh. — Aspidium 
Filix-focmina, Swz., Willd., Smith, Hook, in FI. Sco., Gulp. — Poly- 
podium Filix-foemina, Linn., Light/., Huds., Bolt., Dicks., With . — 
Polypod. ovato-crenalum, Hqffin. — Atliyrium Fil.-foem., Roth, Decan. 
Fig. — E. B. 1459.— Flo. Dun. 1346.— Soft. ‘Ib.—Pluk. Phyt. 180, /. 4. 
Des. — Root large, tufted. Rachis without scales, green (rarely 
purple), the naked part very short. Frond bipinnate, broadly lan- 
