THE SPLEEN W0JJTS. 
charming little plant, having one of the freshest 
and most delightful of the Hues of fresh and 
delightful green. 
Tni GEEEN SPLEEN WOET. 
Asplenium viride . 
Plate 7 , Fig. 7. 
FERN of the rocky moorland and the 
mountain stream ; not rare, but local 
in its distribution. It grows in the 
moist interstices which lie between the stony 
masses. But it mostly loves a rocky home in 
immediate contiguity to the soft vapour of the 
wild cascade. It delights to grow in the tiny 
trickle caused by percolating water. Little wiry 
fibrous rootlets, that plunge within the hearts of 
rocks in search of the soft veins of leaf-mould ; a 
black, tufted root- stock, from which start the 
lovely fronds ; a short stipes, purple at its base, 
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