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8. — ASPLENIUM LANCEOLATUM. 
LANCEOLATE SPLEENWORT. 
(Plate V, fig. 2.) 
Ciia. — Frond lanceolate, bipinnate. Pinnae and pinnules obovate, 
sharply toothed at the apex. 
Syn. — Asplenium lanceolatum, Huds., Swz., Hoffm., Willd., Smith, Hook., 
Forst., With., Gulp., Gray. — Phyllitis lancifolia, Moench. 
' Fig. — E. B. 240. — Ger. Herb. 1135. — Newm. p. 6G. 
Des. — Frond lanceolate, bipinnate, from 3 to 6 inches high, 
upright in habit, and of a light green colour. Rachis green, minutely 
hairy, not winged, void of pinnae below. Pinnae opposite, from 
twelve to twenty 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 tapei’ing at 
the base, particularly 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 a very great dissimilarity between them ; our present species is of 
a different shape, colour, 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. 
IIab. — On the walls of the Church of St. Sancret, near the Land’s End, 
Cornwall, Jones’s Tour. 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 (plenti- 
ful), Mr. J. E. Bowman and Mr. W. Wilson. 
Geo. — Azores, Bohemia, Hungary, France. 
9. — ASPLENIUM ADIANTUM NIGRUM. 
BLACK MAIDEN-HAIR. SHINING SPLEENWORT. 
(Plate V, fig. 3.) 
Cha. — Frond tripinnate, subdeltoid. Pinnee alternate. Pinnules 
inciso-serrate, blunt. Rachis winged, black. 
Syn. — Asplenium Adiantum nigrum, Linn., Willd., Smith, Hook., Mack., Bolt., 
Roth., Huds., With., Galp., Bernh., Light /. — Asplenium lucidum, Gray, 
Salisb . — Black spleenwort, Newm. 
Fig. — E. B. 1950.— Flo. Dan. 2bO.—Bolt. ll.— Ger, 1137 .—Newm. p. 68. 
