Asplenium Viride, Hudson. 
GREEN SPLEENWORT. 
Roots — Long, black, and fibrous ; caudex dark brown 
and tufted. 
Frond — Narrow, linear, elongated, pinnate, of a paler and 
more yellow-green, and more delicate than A. Trichomanes. 
Racbis smooth, of a bright green colour. 
Stipes — Dark at the base, becoming paler near the 
rachis. 
Pinn^; — A lternate, or in pairs, distant, shape irregular, 
roundish ovate or quadrate, margin more or less crenate, or 
even obtusely serrate. 
Venation — Lateral veins both simple and branched, not 
usually extending to the margin. 
Fructification — Clusters of capsules linear, becoming 
confluent when in perfection, the theese of a bright reddish 
brown colour. 
Habitat — Moist rocks in mountainous localities. Near 
Buxton, and in Cave Dale, Castleton, &c. ; always witb a 
northern exposure. The species pines away under cultiva- 
tion. 
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