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ASPLENIUM EUTA-MUEAEIA. Llxn^us 
(Wall-rue Spleenwort.J 
SYXOXYMES. 
Aspleyium mueale. BernTio/rdi. 
Amesium Euta-mueakia. Newman. 
ScOLOPEXDEIUM EuTA-MUEAEIA, RotJl. 
Taea chia Euta-mueaeia. Presl. 
Phyllitis Euta-mueaeia. Mwncli. 
DESCEIPTIOY. 
Caudex tufted, black, witb bristly scales and wiry black 
rootlets. 
Peoxds triangular, twice pinnate or pinnate witb crenate 
or toothed, stalked, diamond shaped pinnules. Stalks long 
and gi-een, blackish at the base. Fronds spring about May 
and are green throughout the winter, being Eoni an inch 
to six inches high. Seedbngs kidney shaped. 
Veins forked, “the branches or venules usually corres- 
ponding with that of the marginal teeth,” and bearing the 
linear 
Spoee Cases, covered with narrow involucres jagged at 
the margin ; these coverings soon disappear as the spore 
cases become confluent and spread entirely over the frond. 
This fern is found under almost all circumstances, from 
