THE GREEN SPLEENWORT. 
THE GREEN SPLEENWORT. 
ASPLENIUM . VIRIDE. 
A. fronds linear, pinnate; pinne subrotund, roundish-ovate, or 
rhomboidal, crenated, distinctly stalked; rachis green, compressed, 
slightly channelled in front, not winged; sori approximate to the 
midrib. [Plate LXXVII.] 
ASPLENIUM VIRIDE, Hudson, Fl. Ang. 1 ed. 885; 2 ed. 453. Bolton, Fil. Brit. 
24, t. 14; Zd.,t. 2, fig. 3. Smith, Eng. Bot. xxxii. t. 2257 ; Id., Eng. Fl. 
` 9 ed. iv. 293. Hooker & Arnott, Brit. Fl. 7 ed. 588. Babington, Man. 
Brit. Bot. 4 ed. 426. Mackay, Fl. Hib. 341. Deakin, Florigr. Brit. iv. 71, fig. 
1593. Newman, Hist. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed. 243. Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 
3 ed. 186; Id., Ferns of Gt. Brit. Nature Printed, t. 40; Id. Ind. Fil. 
177. Sowerby, Ferns of Gt. Brit. 54, t. 31. Bentham, Handb. Brit. Fl. 633, 
under A. Trichomanes. Lowe, Nat. Hist. Ferns, v. t. 28. Schkuhr, Krypt. 
Gew. 68, t. 73. Fl. Dan. t. 1289. Svensk Bot. tt. 462, 774. Willdenow, 
Sp. Plant. v. 882. Poiret, Enc. Supp. ii. 511. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iv. 86. 
Presi, Tent. Pterid. 108. -Link, Fil. Sp. 90. Fee, Gen. Fil. 190. Koch, 
Syn. 2 ed. 982. Fries, Sum. Veg. 82. Ledebour, Fl. Ross. iv. 521. Sturm, 
Fl. (Farrn.).t. 10. Mettenius, Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips. 72; Id. Asplen. 139. 
Heufler, Aspl. Europ. 21. Nyman, Syllog. Fl. Europ. 432. 
ASPLENIUM INTERMEDIUM, Presl, Del. Prag. 232; Id., Tent. Pterid. 108, t. 3. 
fig. 22. 
ASPLENIUM UMBROSUM, Villars, Hist. Pl. Dauph. 281. 
ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES RAMOSUM, Linneus, Sp. Plant. 1541. 
ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES ELEGANS, Solander MS. Hb. Mus. Brit. 

Caudex tufted, decumbent or somewhat creeping, sparingly scaly 
at the crown. Scales lanceolate, dark brown, cellulose. Fibres 
slender, branched. 
Vernation circinate. 
Stipes variable, sometimes quite short, usually about a third of the 
length of the frond, smooth, dark brown at the base, green upwards, 
semiterete; terminal and adherent to the caudex. Rachis green, 
slender, compressed, slightly grooved in front. à 
Fronds two or three inches to eight or ten inches long, linear, 
delicately herbaceous, palish green, pinnate. Pinne variable in 
form, usually roundish-ovate, and broadly cuneate at the base, or 
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