CRYPTOGAMIA. FILICES. Asplenium. 985 
B. spi'cant. Barren leaves wing-cleft: fruitful leaves winged, nar¬ 
rower : segments very entire. 
(E. Bot. 1159. E.) — Hedw. Theor. 5, the fertile and barren leaf with the 
parts offruct. dissect, and magnified — Curt. 127 — FI. Dan. 99 — Trag. 550 
— Lon. i. 225. l—Clus. ii. 213. 1 —Dod. 469. 1— Lob. Obs. 475. 2 ; Ic. i. 
815. 2 — Ger. Em. 1140. 2 — Park. 1042. 2 — II. Ox. xiv. 2. 23 — Ger . 978. 
2— Bolt. 6 — J. B. iii. 745. 2 — Cam. Epit. 665 — Gis. 49. 
Flowering-leaves much narrower than the barren ones. Linn. Fructifica¬ 
tions covered at first with a thin membrane. Capsule of one cell and two 
valves, connected by an annular elastic cord, containing many minute 
seeds. Hedw. Barren leaves, segments widest at the base, strap-,spear- 
shaped, the lateral ribs forked, sometimes, though rarely, terminating in 
minute scollops. Fertile leaves , segments not half so broad, separate, 
though the confluence may almost almost always be traced, and towards 
the end of the leaf gives a waved appearence to the mid-rib. Woodw. 
Fertile leaves , twelve to eighteen inches high, and near two inches broad, 
the lower part naked or with short imperfect leafits. Barren leaves from 
the same root, but only about half as tall, clothed with leafits nearly to 
the bottom. From the narrowness of the leafits it is not easy to deter¬ 
mine whether the rows of capsules may more properly be considered as 
contiguous and parallel to the mid-rib, which is the character of Blech - 
num, or disposed along the edge of the leaf which would refer it to 
Pteris. It appears, however, from Hedwig’s microscopical dissections, 
that the anthers are found upon the mid-rib, and that circumstance 
is, I think, sufficient to determine that the rows of capsules more 
properly belong to that than to the edge of the leaf, notwithstanding 
Hedwig himself has referred it to the genus Acrostichum . See. PI. XIII. 
fig. 9, 10, 11. 
Rough Spleenwort. (Welsh: Bhedyn Gwib. Osmunda spicant. Linn. 
Acrostichum spicant. With. Ed. ii. ( Blechnum boreale. Sw. Willd.' Sm. 
Hook. E.) Groves and moist heaths. St. Faith’s Newton woods, near 
Norwich; common in Herts, and frequent in the North. Mr. Woodward. 
At Hainsford, Norfolk. Mr. Crowe. In lanes about Aston Park, near 
Birmingham. (At the bottom of the thicket in the Vale of Dudcombe, 
near Painswick. Mr. Oade Roberts. Abundant on Hampstead Heath, 
Middlesex. Gerard. In lanes about Bromsgrove Lickey, Worcester¬ 
shire. Mr. Purton. Trossacks; Loch Katrine. Dr. Bostock. In Angle¬ 
sey. Welsh Bot. E.) P. July—Sept. 
ASPLE'NIUM. # Capsules disposed in straight and nearly 
parallel lines on the under surface of the leaf. 
(1) Leaf simple. 
A. Scolopen'drium. Leaves heart-tongue-shaped, very entire: stalks 
hairy. 
Curt. — (E. Bot. 1150. E.) — Tourn. 319 — Blackw. 138 — Bull. 167 — Bolt. 11 
—Gars. 346 — Trag. 549 — Fuchs. 294 — J. B. iii. 756 — Clus. ii. 213. 2 — 
Dod. 467. 1— Cam. Epit. 579 — Wale. — Lob. Obs. 468. 3 — Ger. Em. 1138. 
1 — Park. 1046. l,f. 2 — H. Ox. xiv. 1. 1 — Lon. i. 224. 3 — Matth. 831. 
* (From o’? tKy^v, splenium, belonging to the spleen ; from its once supposed efficacy in¬ 
curing disorders of that viscus. E.) 
