THE LANCEOLATE SPLEENWORT. 
THE LANCEOLATE SPLEENWORT. 
ASPLENIUM LANCEOLATUM. 
A. fronds lanceolate, rigid, glabrous, bipinnate ; pinnæ ovate- 
lanceolate; pinnules obovate or obliquely ovate, blunt, lobed or 
toothed, the teeth coarse angular mucronate; rachis with slightly 
elevated margins in front, not winged, minutely scaly; sori short, 
oblong, produced towards the margin. [Plate LX VIII. ] 
ASPLENIUM LANCEOLATUM, Hudson, Fl. Ang. ii. 454. Smith, Eng. Fl. 2 ed. iv. 
298 ; Id., Eng. Bot. iv. t. 240. Deakin, Plovigr. Brit. iv. 67, fig. 1591. 
Hooker de Arnott, Brit. Fl. 7 ed. 588. Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 425. 
Bentham, Handb. Brit. Fl. 682. Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 219 
(excl. syn. Viviani and Sadler). Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 8 ed. 166 ; 
Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, t. 85 B. Sowerby, Ferns of Gt. 
Brit. 47, t. 27 (bad). Swartz, Syn. Fil. 83. Willdenow, Sp. Plant. v. 346. 
Poiret, Enc. Supp. ii. 515. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 88 (excl. syn.). Presi, 
Tent. Pterid. 108. Link, Fil. Sp. 97. Fee, Gen. Fil. 190. Ruprecht, Dist. 
Crypt. Ross. 42. Lowe, Nat. Hist. Ferns, v. t. 26. Mettenius, Asplen. 140. 
Nyman, Syll. Fl. Europ. 432. 
ASPLENIUM ROTUNDATUM, Kaulfuss, Flora, 1830, i. 841. Presl, Tent. Pterid. 
108. 
ASPLENIUM BiLtoTII, F. Schultz, Flora, 1845, ii. 738, according to Presl. 
ASPLENIUM CUNEATUM, F. Schultz, Flora, 1844, ii. 807, according to Presl. 
ASPLENIUM PERREYMONDII, Balbis MS. ; according to Mettenius. 
POLYPODIUM ADIANTIFOLIUM, Poiret, Enc. Bot. v. 540. 
TARACHIA LANCEOLATA, Presl, Epim. Bot. 82. 
Var. microdon; fronds pinnate; pinnæ undulated, with api- 
culato-dentate margins, lower ones distinct, obtuse, obliquely 
triangular or unequally cordate-subhastate, lobate below; upper 
ones narrower, confluent; sori short. [Plate LXIX.] 
ASPLENIUM LANCEOLATUM, v. MICRODON, Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 166 ; 
Id., Ind. Fil. 140. 
ASPLENIUM MICRODON, Moore, Hb. 
ASPLENIUM MARINUM, v. MICRODON, Moore, Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, 
under t. 38. 
Caudex short, thick, erect or decumbent, tufted, densely scaly. 
Scales elongately subulate, shining brown, striately veined. Fibres 
stout, branched, tomentose. 
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