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Edward Newman 
Aspidium dilatatum, spinulosum, and dumetorum, Sm. E. 
F. iv. 292, 3, 4, and also of Smith’s Herbarium, now 
in the possession of the Linnean Society. 
Aspidium spinulosum, Mack. FI. Hib. 340 ; var. ft. Hook, 
and Am. 571. 
Lastrea dilatata, Neivm. A 7 . A. 23 ; Bab. 411. 
Lastrea multiflora, Newm. F. 215. 
Lophodium multiflorum, Newm. Phytol. iv. 371. 
Rhizoma tufted ; stipes very stout, nearly as long as the 
frond, densely clothed with long pointed scales, which are 
dark brown along the middle but pale at the edges ; frond 
glandular when young, very large, deep green, drooping, 
ovate-lanceolate, pinnate ; lowest pair of pinnae shorter 
than the second, third, fourth or fifth, pinnae pinnate ; pin- 
nules pinnate or pinnatifid; ultimate divisions serrated, 
spined ; all the divisions of the frond convex ; involucre 
nearly circular, fringed with stalked glands ; clusters of 
capsules circular, covering every part of the frond. 
Common everywhere. 
Obs. — Two or more doubtful species of Lophodium occupy this 
place; viz., L. glandulosum, probably identical, as suggested to me by 
Mr. Moore, with Lastrea maculata of Deakiu, L. collinum, &c. The 
characters of these are still insufficiently ascertained. 
Lophodium spinosum. 
Polypodium cristatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 1551, ad partem. 
1770. Polypodium Filix-femina y. spinosa, Weiss, Crypt. 310. 
1800. Polystichum spinosum, Roth, FI. Germ. iii. 91. 
Lastrea spinosa, Newm. N. A. 21, F. 209. 
Lastrea spinulosa, Bab. 410. 
Lophodium spinosum, Newm. Phytol. iv. 371. 
Rhizoma stout, slowly but extensively creeping ; stipes 
as long as frond, clothed sparingly, except at the base, 
with broad, rounded, pale brown, diaphanous scales ; frond 
slightly drooping, elongate, linear, pinnate ; pinnae rather 
distant, winged, pinnate ; pinnules at the base of the pinnae 
separated from the midrib by a deep notch, towards the 
apex of the pinnae decurrent, all lobed, the lobes serrated 
