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Ciliated, spinous, hairy underneath. In moist rocky 
places and woods. 
Blechnum. 'Gen. char. — Fructifications in conti* 
nuous longitudinal lines near the rib ; involucrum super- 
ficial, continuous, opening towards the rib. 
Blech. Boreale, Rough Spleenwort j with smooth 
pinnated frond ; leaflets linear, bluntish, entire, nearly 
equal at the base. Common in woods and heaths. 
Osmunda spicant of Lightfopt and others. 
Scolopenbrium. Gen. char. — Fructifications in. 
double scattered lines, involucrum superficial, opening 
longitudinally. 
Scol. Vulgar Common HarCs-tongue ; with simple 
lance-shaped frond, smooth underneath. Common in 
moist, rocky, and shady places. Asplenium Scollop en- 
drium, Spec. Plant, of Lightfoot and other botanists. 
Asplenium. Gen. char.- — Fructifications in scat- 
tered lines ; involucrum opening towards the rib. 
Asplen. Marinum, Sea Spleenwort ; with pinnated 
frond, leaflets ovate, oblique, serrated, obtuse, unequal 
at the base, and wedge-shaped. Rocks near the sea in. 
Britain. 
Asplen. Septentrionale, Forked Spleenwort ; with pin- 
nated, three-cleft frond, leaflets alternate, linear, rag- 
ged at the summit. In the fissures of rocks ; Arthurs’ 
Seat, Edinburgh. Acrosiichum Septentrionale of Light- 
foot, Withering and others. 
Asplen. Palmatum, Palmated Spleenwort ; with five- 
lobed, heart-shaped frond ; three intermediate lobes 
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