With no described Fern does this species seem to have 
any striking affinity; but from my friend Dr Giuuiss of. 
Mendoza, S. America, I possess specimens of an Asplenium, 
which in many respects accord well with this, and which were 
found upon rocks at the famous Uspalata mines. The form of 
the pinne and the fructification are exactly similar ; but in the - 
South American individual, the pinne are much smaller, of a 
more delicate texture, the rachis is leafy to the extremity, which 
— is never rooting or proliferous. The whole plant, too, is not 
more than 4 or 5 inches high *. | 
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Fig. 1. A pinna, seen from the outside. Fig. 2. Three capsules,—magnified. 
* Dr GILLIES’s plant may be thus defined : | 
Asplenium Gilliesii ; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis flabelliformibus antice crenato-dentatis, 
rachi leevi apice non radicante. 
