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LASTEEA DILATATA. Peesl. 
( Broad FricUy Buckler Fern.) 
SYNOirrMES. 
Polypodium Ceistatitm. Lmnceus . 
Polypodium Multiploeum. Both. 
Aspidium Dilatatum ayd Spiyulosum. Smith. 
Aspidium Spiyulosum. Swartz. 
PoLYSTicHLUj; Multifloeum. Roth. 
Lasteea Multifloea. Newman. 
Lophodium Multifloeum. Newman. 
Nepheodium Spiyulosum rar dilatatum. Hooker. 
DESCEIPTIOY. 
Caudex large and tufted with, black wiry rootlets. 
Feoyds broadly ovate-lanceolate (sometimes triangular) 
bipinnate with pinnate or pinnatifid pinnules, which are 
deeply toothed and strongly spinous, and very commonly 
much recurved. The stalks are usually shorter than the 
frond, and densely covered at the lower part vdth hrown 
scales, very dark in the centre and shading gradually to 
very pale at the margin. They usually appear about May 
and vary in height from a few inches to five feet, the aver- 
age height, being in favourable situations between three 
and four feet. 
