Plate 35 . 
ASPLENIUM Eilix-fcemina, Bernli. 
Short-fruited Spleenwort , or Lady-Fern. 
Asplenium (Athyrium) Filix-foemina ; caudex ascending, paleaceous, with broad 
ferruginous scales ; stipites tufted, a span to a foot or more long, stra¬ 
mineous-brown ; fronds one and a half to three feet long, oblong, rather 
suddenly acuminate, submembranaceous, bi- rarely tri-pinnate; primary 
pinnae numerous, patent, from a moderately broad, nearly sessile base, ob¬ 
long-lanceolate, acuminate, four to six inches long; pinnules numerous, 
approximate, horizontally patent, sessile, half to three-quarters of an inch 
long, oblong, rather obtuse, lower ones deeply pinnatifid, the segments 
ovate, with two to three strong and sharp serratures, superior ones more 
entire, coarsely serrated, uppermost ones confluent into a pinnatifid or 
serrated apex; sori copious, one to each segment of the pinnule, near the 
rachis, oblong; involucres very convex, straight or variously curved, and 
horseshoe-shaped, membranaceous, more or less fringed or erose at the 
margin. 
Asplenium Filix-foemina. Bernli. in Schrad. N. Journ. Bot. 1806, v. 1. pt. 2. 
p. 26. t. 2./. 7 (sori). Hook, and Am. Brit. FI. ed. 8. p. 591. Metten. 
Fit. Hort. Lips. p. 79. t. 13./. 15-16. Asplen. p. 199 (pinnae and sori ex¬ 
cellent). Asa Gray , Man. Bot. N. U. St. Illustr.p. 595. Hook. Sp. Fit. 
p. 217. 
Nephrodium Filix-foemina. Mich. FI. Bor. Am. v. 2. p. 268. 
Athyrium Filix-foemina. Besv. Pr. Tent. Pterid. p. 98. t. 3./. 5 ( involucres 
straight). Moore , Brit. Ferns, Nat. Print, t. 30-34. 
Aspidium Filix-foemina. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 59. Schk. Fit. p. 56. t. 58-59. 
Willd. Sp. PI. v. 5 .p. 276. Engl. Bot. t. 1459. Sm. Eng. FI. v. 4 . p. 295. 
Polypodium Filix-foemina. Linn. Sp. PI.p. 1551, and Pol. rhseticum, Linn. Herb. 
Aspidium asplenioides. Sw. Syn. Fil.p. 60. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 276. Pursh, 
FI. Am. v. 2 . p. 664. 
Nephrodium asplenioides. Mich. FI. Bor. Am. v. 2.p. 268. 
Aspidium angustum. Willd. Sp. PI. p. 277. Pursh, FI. Am. v. 2. p. 661. 
Athyrium angustum. Pr. 
Athyrium Michauxii. Spr. Kze. 
Athyrium asplenioides. Besv. Fee, Gen. Fil.p. 186. Moore, Ind. Fil. p. 179. 
Asplenium elatius. Link, Fil. Sp. p. 94 (fide Moore). 
Polypodium dentigerum. Wall. Cat. n. 334. 
Athyrium tripinnatum. Rupr. (fide Moore in Herb. Nostr.): var. broader and 
tripinnate. 
Yar. latifoliiim\ pinnules broader elliptical. Hook. Sp. Fil. v. 3 . p. 218. 
Athyrium ovatum. Newm. 
Hab. Moist shady places, and damp woods; abundant in England, Scotland, 
and Ireland; var. latifolium, Keswick, Cumberland, Miss Wright. 
