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The Ferns of South Africa. 
tapering to a point, only the lower pinnules six to seven lobed, the 
next bifid, then simple, distant, linear lobes. The two lowest 
pinnae are different, two inches long, one inch broad, and like 
usual barren lower pinnae of A. rutaefolium. But even this curious 
form is connected with A. rutaefolium by as large a frond in Natal 
Govt. Herb., which is similar in all respects, except that three to 
four of the lowest pinnules are pinnate. The lowest one on the 
upper side is parallel with the rachis, and the others point 
outward. The texture is as in the common form. 
In habit, habitat, cutting, &c., the simpler forms of A. rutae- 
folium and Davallia concinna, Schr., are very much alike, and 
Kuhn places the latter in Asplenium, where it would stand next to 
this species, and be distinguished by the shorter and more 
terminal sori. 
A. rutaefolium. Kze. 10.521 ; Pappe and Rawson, 23 ; Hk. and Bkr. 
Syn. Fil. 222 ; Kuhn, Fil. Afr. 115. 
Caenopteris rutaefolia. Bergins, Act. Petr. VI. 249 ; Thunb. Prod. 172 ; 
Flora Cap. 734. 
Darea rutaefolia. J. Smith, Willd. , Schl. Adum. 33. 
Asplenium stans. Kze. Linnaea, 10.521 ; Pappe and Rawson, 23. 
Darea stans. Bory. 
Caenopteris furcata. Bergins, Act. Petr. 1778, VI., 248. 
Darea furcata. J. Smith ; Schl. Adum. 33. 
South Africa and South Asia. One of our most common 
ferns throughout the Colony and Natal, easily cultivated, and 
known as the Carrot Fern. 
Transvaal. — Houtbosch (Dr. Rehmann, 5584). 
89. Asplenium Filix-fcemina. Bernh. 
Plate LXXXV. Natural size. b. Fertile pinnules. 
Crown erect, abundantly paleaceous. Frond herbaceous, 
glabrous, one and a half to two feet long, six to eight inches broad 
at the middle, rather less below, and with an almost naked rachis, 
and a stipe six inches long, which has abundant, very long, 
narrow, brownish scales below, suddenly decreasing in size and 
