THE BEIT ISH FERNS.
THE LADY FEBN.
ATHYRIUM FILIX-FOEMINA.
A. fronds lanceolate, herbaceous, subbipinnate, or bi-tri-pinnate ;
pinnules oblong ovate or lanceolate, sessile and distinct, or more or
less deourront and united, toothed, or inoiso-pinnatifld w itt the lobes
toothed ; the teeth acute, not spinnlose.
— (type) : fronds lanceolate, lax or drooping ; pinnæ approximate
or distinct ; the lower pair smaller deflexed ; pinnules flat, oblong
connected by a winged raohis and toothed, or linear-lanceolate distinct
and pinnatifid, the lobes more or less toothed. [Plate L II A.]
A t h y e iu m f i l i x -fc em in a . Moth, FI. Germ. ii i. 6 5 . Presl, Tent. Pterid. 9 8 , t . 3,
% . 5. Fée, Gen. Fil. 1 8 6 . Bahingtoxi, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 e d . 4 2 5 (j3).
Sowerby, Ferns q f Gt. Brit. 4 3 , t , 2 5 . Newman, Hist. Brit. Perns, 3 ed .
2 0 8 . Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 e d . 1 4 4 ; Id ., Ferns o f Gt. Brit. Nature
Printed, i t . 3 0 , 32.
A t h y e i u m F i l i x - f oe m i n a , v . m o l l e , Newman, Hist. BHt. Ferns, 2 e d . 2 4 2 ;
3 e d . 2 1 5 . BaUngton, Man. Brit. Bot. 4 e d . 4 2 6 (7 ). Moore, Handb. Brit.
Ferns, 1 e d . 9 4 ; 2 e d , 1 3 9 . Sowerby, Ferns o f Gt. Brit. 4 4 .
A t h y e iu m o v a t u m , Roth, FI. Germ. iii. 6 4 (MiiU. Fl._Fridr. t. 2, f. 3 )— n o t of
Newman.
A t h y e i u m m o l l e , Both, PL Germ. i i i. 6 1 . Newman, Nat. A im. 1 8 4 4 , 2 6 ; Id .,
Phytol. 1 8 5 1 , App. x i i . ; Id ., Hist. Brit. Perns, 8 e d . 2 1 5 (e x o l. t h e A b e r d e e n
h a b i t a t ) .
A t h y e iu m t e i f id u m , Both, FI. Germ. ii i. 63.
A t h y e iu m l a x u m , Schunmeher, Enum. Plant. Soelland. ii. 1 6 .
A t h y e iu m d e p a u p b e a t u m , Sehwmaeher, Envm. P lant. Sællànd. i i . 1 7 .
A t h y e iu m læ t u m , Gray, Nat. A rr. Brit. Plants, ii. 10.
A tha' e iu m a o e o s t io h o id e u m , B o n j : Merat, FI. Par. 4 e d . 3 7 3 ; a c c o r d in g to
JM e tte n iu s .
P o ly p o d i u m F i l i x - f oe m i n a , lAnnæm, Sp. Plant. 1 5 5 1 . Bolton, Filiees Brit.
46 , t . 2 6 (h a d ). Hoffmann, Heutsclil. PI. ii. 6. Poiret, Ene. Botanique,
Y. 5 4 8 . Hudson, FI. Ang. 4 5 8 .
P o l y p o d iu m F i l ix -foe m in a , a. o e b n a t a , Weis, PI. Crypt. 8 1 3 ; according to
Eoth.
P o l y p o d iu m F i l ix -foe m in a , S . d e n t a t a , Weis, PI. Crypt. 3 1 6 .
P o l y p o d iu m d e n t a t u m , Hoffmann, Heutschl. FI. ii. 7.
P o l y p o d iu m o b l o n g o -d e n t a t u m , Hoffirumn, Bcem. and list. Mag. Bot. 1 7 9 0 ,
p t . 9, 1 0 , fig. 13 a.
POIYPODIUM 0VAT0-0EEKATUM, Iloffsnaxin, Boem. a n d list. Mag. Bot. 1 7 9 0 ,
p t . 9, 10.
P o l y p o d iu m t e i f id u m , Hoffmann, Boem. and Usi. Mag. Bot. 1 7 9 0 , p t . 9, 1 0 ;
Id ., Heutschl. PI. i i. 7.
P o l y p o d iu m b i f id u m , Hoffmann, Bcem. a n d Ust. Mag. Bot. 1 7 9 0 , p t . 9, 10.
P o l y p o d iu m m o l l e , Sehreber, Spidleg. FI. Zips. 7 0 . Hoffmann, Heutschl. FI.
ii. 7. Poiret, Ene. Bot. v. 6 3 6 .
THE LADY FEEN, 9
P o l y p o d iu m l æ t u m , Salisbury, Prod. 403.
P o l y p o d iu m e e v o l u t u m , Bory ; according to Mettenius.
P o l y p o d iu m L b s b b l i i , Merat, FI. P a r. 2 ed. 276.
A s p l e n iu m P i l ix -foe m in a , Bernhardi, Schrad. neues Journ. Bot. 1806, i. pt.
26, 27, 48, t. 2, fig. 7. Sprengel, Syst. Veg. iy. 88 (excl. syn. Poiret). B.
Brown, Prod. FI. Nov. Holl. 150. Fries, Sum. Teg. 82. Ledelimr, PI.
Boss. iv. 618. Koch, Syn. 2 ed. 981. Hooker A Arnoit, Brit. FI. 7 ed, 689.
Bentham, Handb. Brit. PI. 631. Mackay, FI. Hib. 342. Heakin, Florigr.
Brit. iv. 57, fig. 1589 (incl. vars. 1-4). Gray, Bot. North. U. States, 628.
Kunze, L in . xxiii. 284. Mettenius, Fil. Hort. Bot. Lips. 79, t, 13, fig. 15,
16 ; Id ., Asplen. 199.. Laux, N a t Hist. Perns, v. t. 29. Milde, Nov. Act.
N . O. xxvi. (ii.) 509.
A s p l e n i u m P i l i x - f oe m i n a , v . m o l l e , Heakin, Florigr. Brit. iv. 59.
A s p l e n iu m F i l ix -f oe m in a , ®. t e i f id u m , Heakin, Florigr. Brit. iv. 59.
A s p l e n iu m in t e e m e d iu m , Lin k , Enum. A lt. ii. 469.
A s p id iu m F i l ix -foe m in a , Swartz, Schrad. Journ. Bot. 1800, ii. 41 ; Id ., Syn.
Fil. 69. Schkuhr, Krypt. Gew. 66, t. 58, 69. Weber and Mohr, Heutsch.
Krypt. Gew. 36. Willdenow, Sp. P lant, v. 276. Smith, FI. Brit. 1124 ;
Id ., Eng. Bot. xxi. t. 1459 (not good) ; Id ., Eng. FI. 2 ed. iv. 282. Teruyre,
Att. Accad. del. B. Inst. Se. Nat. Nap. v. (reprint 18, t. 1, fig. 2). Nyman,
Syll. FI. Europ. 432.
N e p h e o d iu m F i l ix -e oe m in a , Strempel, Fil. Berol. Syn. 80.
T e c t a e ia F i l ix -foe m in a , CavaràUes, Proel. 1801, 261.
Cy a t h e a F i l ix -foe m in a , Bertoloni, Amoen. 429 ; according to Mettenius.
C y s t o p t e e is F i l ix -f oe m in a , Cosson and Germain, PI. Par. 676,
Var. marinum ; fronds elliptic-lanceolate spreading ; pinnæ
approximate ; pinnules crowded oblong obtuse, connected at the
base by the wing of the rachis, pinnatifid below with small blunt
shallow lobes which are bifid or toothed, toothed above with short
blunt simple teeth ; sori short, much curved, numerous, often
becoming confluent. [Plate L III A.]
A t h y e iu m F i l ix -foe m in a , ®. m a e in u m , Moore, Pop. Hist. Brit. Perns, 1 ed.
91 ; Id ., Handb. Bril. Perns, 3 ed. 145; Id ., Perns o f Gt. Brit. Nature
; t. 31 C.
Var. latifolium ; fronds oblong-lanceolate spreading ; pinn®
approximate or crowded; pinnules short stalked, flat, imbricate,
obliquely-ovate, laciniate pinnatifid, deeply so at the base, toothed
above, the teeth long acute ; sori small curved, uniserial on each side
of, and distant from the midrib. [Plate LIV A.]
A t h y e iu m F i l ix -f ie m in a , ®. l a t if o l iu m . Bahington, Man. Brit. Bot. 3 ed.
413 (5). Moore, Handb. Brit. Ferns, 3 ed, 145 ; Id. Ferns o f Gt. Brit.
Nature Printed, t. 31 B.
A t h y r iu m l a t if o l iu m , BaUngton, M S .— riot of Presl.
A t h y r iu m o v a t u m , Newtrmn, Phytol. iv. 368 (excl. syn. Roth, Newman, Presi) ;
Id ., Phytol. 1851, App. xii. (excl. syn. Hoffmann, Roth, Newman).
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