Plate 36. 
ASPLENIUM (Hemidictyum) Cetekach, L . 
Common Ceterach, or Scaly Spleenwort . 
Asplenium (Hemidictyum) Ceterach; caudex short, thick, densely rooting; 
fronds six to eight or ten inches long, cmspitose, lanceolate, subcoriaceous, 
opaque, deeply pinnatifid, green above and scaleless, beneath densely 
clothed with imbricated, tawny, entire or toothed scales, the base tapering 
into a paleaceous slender stipes; segments broad-ovate or oblong, horizontal, 
obtuse, lowest ones (sometimes free) much abbreviated ; veins united and 
anastomosing towards the margin; sori short, oblong ; involucre very nar¬ 
row, sometimes obsolete. 
Asplenium Ceterach. Linn. Sp.Pl.p. 1538. Bolton, Pit. Brit.p. 20. t. 12. 
Hook. Sp. Fit. v. 3. p. 273. 
Grammitis Ceterach. Sw. Syn. Fit. p. 23. Schk. Fil.p. 186. t. 7. 
Gymnogramme Ceterach. Sp. Syst. Veg.v. 4. p. 38. Pr. Tent. Pterid.p. 219. 
t. 9./. 10. 
Gymnopteris Ceterach. Bernh. in Schrad. Journ. Bot. 1806, v. 1. pt. 2. p. 22. 
Scolopendrium Ceterach. Symons. Engl. Bot. t. 1244. Sm. Engl. FI. v. 4. 
p. 302. 
Ceterach officinarum. Besv. Willd..Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 136. Hook. Gen. Fil. t. 
113 A. Hook, et Am. Brit. FI. ed. 8. p. 579. t. 9 . f. 1. Fee, Gen. Fil. 
p. 206. t. 30 A.f. 2. Metten. Fil. Hort. Lips.p. 80. t. 13./. 13. 
Ceterach, and Notopleurum Ceterach. Newm. 
(A splendid var. of this plant is found in Teneriffe, /3 aurenm ; larger, seg¬ 
ments much elongated, scales of the frond generally strongly toothed:— 
Ceterach aureum, Link, in Von Bach, Canar. Ins. p. 138. Webb, FI. Canar. 
v. 3. p. 433. Acrostichum aureum, “ Gav. Anal, de Cienc. Nat. v. 4. p. 
104.” Grammitis aurea, Sw. Syn. Fil. pp. 33 and 45. Ceterach Cana- 
riense, W r illd. Sp. PI. v. 5. p. 137. Asplenium latifolium, Bory, Lies 
Fort. p. 311. t. 6. Ceterach latifolium, Fee , Gen. Fil. p. 206. t. 30. /. 1 
( excellent ). 
Hab. Rocks and old walls, but local; chiefly in limestone districts in England 
and Ireland; rare in Scotland. Our finest specimens are from Fred. J. 
Foot, Esq., gathered in Ireland ; intermediate between our common form 
and the very fine state found in the Canary Islands. 
On the continent of Europe this is found as far north as the 
islands of Gothland: eastward it extends to Uralian Siberia, and 
through southern Europe to the Caucasus, Asia Minor to Kurdi¬ 
stan (Major Garden)', to North-western Persia, province of Ka- 
rebagh, Afghan, Kashmir, and Thibet, Edgivorth, Griffith, Hooker 
