Descriptions of the Species. 
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to Natal, but Buchanan thinks it is a mistake, while Kuhn, 
M‘Ken, and Wood all omit it. There are no specimens in the 
South African Herbaria, and it seems likely that the locality is a 
mistake, though not deleted in the 2nd Edition, nor in the more 
recent revision in “ Annals of Botany.”) 
84. Asplenium cicutarium. Sw. 
Plate CXLVI1. Natural size. 
Frond eighteen inches long, six inches broad at the middle, 
rather less below, tapering to a fine point, and having a naked 
stipe of six inches. Pinnae about twenty pairs, alternate, or the 
lower sub-opposite, spreading ; those on one side an inch apart at 
the middle ; the lower more distant and reduced ; the upper much 
closer and gradually smaller. Mid-pinnae lanceolate, three inches 
long, three-quarter-inch broad at the base, sessile, with a slender 
rachis, and ten to twelve pairs of alternate, deltoid, shortly stalked 
pinnules, half-inch long, three to four lines broad, which again are 
cut to the mid-rib into two to three pairs of alternate segments, of 
which the upper are linear-oblong, pointed, one line long, half-line 
broad ; and the lower are broader, flabellately two to three lobed, 
and narrowed to the base. The lower segment on the upper side 
is nearer the pinna rachis than that on the lower side, and the 
pinnule is thus unequal sided. Sori on the veins ; one near the 
base of each simple segment, and opening toward the point of the 
pinnule ; two to three face to face on the flabellate segments, 
short, frequently curved, and not reaching near the margin. 
Frond glabrous, quite destitute of scales, and thinly herbaceous in 
texture. Rachis slender, brown, slightly green, margined. A 
most graceful fern found in tropical America and Africa. The 
original South African specimen was sent by Sanderson from 
Magalisberg, Transvaal, and no other has since been recorded. 
My description and figure are from specimens from the Cameroon 
Mountains, kindly forwarded to me from Kew, and which Mr. 
Baker informs me are very like Sanderson’s specimen. It is var. 
Abyssinicum (A. Abyssinicum, Fee), distinguished from the type 
