ASPLENIUM,
§ EUASPLENIUM.
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the base, fronds 1-2 inches long coriaceous glabrous pinnated,
pinnse f - 1 inch long long-petioled linear or linear-lanceolate
subunguiculate often very acute or acuminate rarely solitary
generally 2 - 3 alternate entire or forked, lateral segments small
subulate rarely laciniated ( 2 - 3 acuminate segments), veins
forked parallel, sori very long, involucres also much elongated
attached near the margin.—Sw. in Schrad. Journ. ii. p. 2 8 3 .
Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 307. Schk. Fil. p. 62. t. 6 5 . Engl. Bot.
t. 1017. Metfen. Asplen. Fil. Hort. Lips. p. 76. t. 1 3 . / . 2 1 .
Moore, Ferns Nat. Print, t. 4 1 C. Metten. Asplen. p. 1 4 1 .
Acropteris, Link. Fee, Gen. Fil. p. 77- t. 6 A. f.l.
Amesium,
Newm.
Acrostichum, Linn. Sp. PL p. 1524.
Hab. Europe, generally in mountain regions, from Norway to the extreme
south;' Caucasus, Ural, and Altai.
Northern India: Kashmir, T. Thomson,
Jacquemont, elev. 9000 feet, n. 1201 (n. 57 in Herb. Mus. Par.); Garhwal,
11,000 feet, Strachey and Winterbottom, n. 4. New Mexico!, C. Wright, coll.
1851-2, n. 2122.—There is a peculiarity in the general form of the pinna; of this
plant, and especially in the very elongated sori and involucres, but scarcely cha­
racter enough to constitute a new genus (Acropteris), as Link has done.
154. A. (Euasplenium) Germanicum, W e i s s ; caudex short
thick apparently formed by the remains of old stipites scarcely
paleaceous densely rooting, stipites crowded ceespitose slender
2 - 4 inches long dark ebeneous-purple below, fronds 2 - 2 |
inches long oblong pinnate or rarely subbipinnate, pinnules
cuneate \ an inch long coarsely incised tapering into a rather
long slender petiole, veins forked erect, sori linear often
elongated parallel, involucres white entire.—Weiss, PI. Crypt.
209 (1770). Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 330. Moore, Brit. Ferns
Nat. Print, t. 41 B. Aspl. alternifolium, Wulf. in Jacg. Misc.
Austr. \i.p. 5 1 . t. 5.f.2.
Engl.Bot. t. 2258. Aspl. Breynii,
Retz, 06s. Bot. t. 32. Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 85. Schk. Fil. p. 77.
t. 8 1 . Metten. Asplen. p. 142. Amesium, Newm. Scolopendrium, Roth.
Tarachia, Pr.
Hab. Middle and north of Europe, as far as Stockholm and Helsingfors; rare
in England and Scotland, mostly in stony and mountain districts. I possess
beautiful specimens gathered in Cumberland by the Rev. W. H. Hawker, and
others, from a stone wall near Oare, on the borders of Devon and Somerset, by
N. B. Ward, Esq. Some of the states of this are not unfrequently mistaken
for A. septentrionale, and others for A. Ruta-muraria, but the three species are
truly distinct.
155. A. (Euasplenium) Seelosii, Leibold ; small, caudex
short horizontal copiously radiculose above clothed with
numerous long brown subulate glossy scales, stipites tufted
slender scarcely 3 inches long green black at the base