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ones shorter, their pinnules oblong bluntish, adnate or decurrent, 
crenate-serrate; later fertile ones broader than the earlier, the 
pinnules oblong bluntish crenate-serrate as in barren ones; anterior 
and posterior basal pinnules of the lowest pinn® in all the fronds 
nearly equal in size. [Plate XLI. | 
LASTREA CRISTATA, B. ULIGINOSA, Moore, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. iv. 109; Id., 
Phytol. iv. 149 ; Id., Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 117; Id., Ferns of Gt. 
Brit. Nature Printed, t. 20. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 422. 
LASTREA ULIGINOSA, Newman, Phytol. ii. 679. 
ASPIDIUM CRISTATUM, B. ULIGINOSUM, Hooker & Arnott, Brit. Fl. 7 ed. 585. 
ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM, Hooker & Arnott, Brit. Fl. 6 ed. 571, in part. 
ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM, b. ULIGINOSUM, A. Braun: Döll, Rhein. Fl. 17. 
ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM, ®. SUBCORIACEUM, Ruprecht, Dist. Crypt. Ross. 37. 
ASPIDIUM CRISTATUM X SPINULOSUM, Milde, Hb. Hook. 
POLYSTICHUM SPINULOSUM, v. ULIGINOSUM, “4. Br.” : Wirtzen, Crypt. Vasc. 
Rhen. Pruss ; according to Newman. 
LOPHODIUM ULIGINOSUM, Newman, Phytol. iv. 371; Id., 1851, App. xix. ; Id., 
Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 163. 
Var. spinulosa: fronds narrow oblong-lanceolate, bipinnate ; 
pinne triangular, oblique; pinnules oblong, acute, inciso-serrate or 
pinnatifid, with aristately toothed lobes; posterior basal pinnules of 
the lower pinn® much larger than the anterior ones. [Plate XLII. ] 
LASTREA ORISTATA, y. SPINULOSA, Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 2 ed. 115; 
3 ed. 117; Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, under t. 19. - 
LASTREA SPINULOSA, Presi, Tent. Pterid. 76. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed 
422, Sowerby, Ferns of Gt. Brit. 94, t. 19. Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. 
Nature Printed, t. 21. : 
LASTREA SPINOSA, Newman, Nat. Alm. 1844, 91. Deakin, Florigr. Brit. iv. 
108, fig. 1611. 
LASTREA DILATATA, v. LINEARIS, Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 1 ed. 386 (excl. syn.) 
POLYPODIUM SPINULOSUM, Müller, Fl. Fridrichsdal. 193, n. 841, t. 2, fig. 2. ; 
ids, Fl. Dam. iv. tasc.12) 5, 1.70%. 
POLYPODIUM CRISTATUM, Hoffmann, Deutschl. Fl. ii. 8 (excl. syn. Bolt.) 
POLYPODIUM MULTIFLORUM, B. SPINOSUM, Roth, Catal. Bot. i. 141. 
POLYPODIUM FILIx-F@MINA, v. SPINOSA, Weis, Pl. Crypt. 316. 
ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM, Swartz, Syn. Fil. 420 (not 54, nor Schrad. Journ.). 
Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew. 48, t. 48 (excl. fig. d, e). Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 106 
(in part, i.e., excl. character of indusium, and synonym).  ? Bentham, 
Handb. Brit. Fl. 630, in part. Fe, Gen. Fil. 291. Mettenius, Fil. Hort. 
Bot. Lips. 93. Lowe, Nat. Hist. Ferns, vi. t. 41. 
ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM, @. ELEVATUM, A. Braun : Doll. Rhein. Fl. 17. 
ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM-CRISTATUM, Laschner, Bot. Zeit. xiv. 435. 
ASPIDIUM SPINULOSUM, ß., Ruprecht, Dist. Orypt. Ross. 37. 
NEPHRODIUM SPINULOSUM, Strempel, Fil. Berol. Syn. 80. 
POLYSTICHUM SPINOSUM, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 91. 
LoPHODIUM SPINOSUM, Newman, Phytol. iv. 871; Id., 1851, App. xviii. ; Id., 
Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 157. 

