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FERNS. 
[Asplenium. 
4. — ASPLEN1UM MARINUM. 
SEA SPLEENWORT. 
(Plate IV, fig. 4.) 
Cha. — Frond oblong, pinnate. Pinnae obtuse, serrate, slightly 
auricled above. Racliis winged. 
Syn. — Asplenium marinum, Linn., Willd., Huds., Bolt., Dicks., Lightf., With., 
Galp., Smith, Hook., Mack., Gray, Neivm., 8fc. 
Fig. — E. B. 392.— Lob. Ic. 814.— FI. Lon. GO.— Bolt. Vo.—Ger. 1143.— 
Newrn. 75. 
Des. — Root very thickly tufted, black, with stout fibres. Frond 
6 to 9 inches high, pinnate, irregularly oblong, obtuse. Rachis 
winged all the way down, black, shining, smooth, without pinnae at 
the lower part, above bearing about twenty on each side, mostly 
alternate, obtuse, about an inch long in the middle of the frond, 
running at the base into the wing of the rachis, therefore slightly 
decurrent ; the upper side of each generally auricled, the lower side 
proportionably truncated. Sori large, transverse, at first linear, then 
oblong, but never confluent. Indusium white, or of a pale brown. 
Sit. — Upon maritime rocks, or in caves by the sea-side, and in one or two 
inland situations. 
IIab. — Eng. : Marsden Rocks, Durham, Mr. R. B. Bowman. Isle of Man, 
Mr. Forbes. Above the Black Rocks at the entrance of the Mersey (Cheshire 
side), Mr. H. C. fVatson. Liverpool (near the Dingle), Mr. Merrick. Still at 
Ilulrae Stone Quarry (otherwise called Winwick Stone Delph), near Warrington, 
where Bolton gathered it (v. Bolt. Fit. loc. cit.), Mr. IF. Wilson. In this place 
Mr. Shaw, of Bollington, many years ago found a curious variety, with a much 
more divided frond than is usual, and which remains with him distinct in culture. 
Sussex, Mr. Borrer. West of Cornwall, Professor Ilenslow. — Wales : Anglesea, 
Mr. J. E. Bowman. Near the South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead, Mr. C. C. 
Babington. Ormeshead, and near Bangor, Mr. W. Wilson. — Scot. : Parish of 
Nigg, Ross-shire, Mr. Brichan. Near Port Patrick, Wigtonshire, Dr. Balfour. 
Moray, Rev. G. Gordon. Isle of Staffa, Mr. J. Dovaston. Near Eyemouth, 
Berwickshire, Rev. A. Baird. Frequent on the whole line of the Berwickshire 
coast, Dr. G. Johnston. Fifeshire and Aberdeenshire (common), Dr. Murray. Isle 
of Arran, Mr. T. H. Cooper. — Ire. : Sutton side of Ilowth Mountain, Underwood, 
Killiney Hill, &c., Dr. Osborne. Derrinane, county Kerry. Mr. Kelly. Abundant 
on the southern and western coasts, Mr. Mackay. 
Geo. — Barbary, Canary Islands, Spain, St. Helena, West Indies, Islands of the 
Archipelago, &c. There is hut little difference between our plant and Dr. Hooker’s 
species Asplenium obtusatum. 
.0.— ASPLENIUM TRICIIOMANES. 
COMMON MAIDEN-HAIR SPLEENWOKT. WALL SPLEENWOKT. 
(Plate IV, fig. 5.) 
Ciia. -Frond pinnate, linear. Pinnee subrot unci, crcnate. Rachis 
black. 
