roî-tion of matvirc Frond, under side.
ASPLENIUM LÆTUM.
S w a r t z . M o o r e a n d H o u l s t o n . Sciiiium:.
SmITU, (not of SlEHER.)
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Asplenium Schhclirianum, P r e s l . F e e .
, l s p ie » > n ? n— S p le e n w o r t. læ tu m —Guy.
I n t h e S e c t i o n E e a s p l e n i t m o f A f t h o r s .
A i .t h o u g h a somewhat common species in English greenhouses,
still it is a Eern which should not bo the less grown on that
account, the intense green of the frond, and the bold dark
fructification, place it amongst those species worthy of general
cultivation. It is of easy growth, and makes a large and handsome
specimen.
Native of the AVest Indies.
An evergreen stove or "warm greenhouse I cm.
The form of the frond is elongate, glabrous, pinnate, the
pinnæ being oblong-obtuse, the lower pair longest, hastate,
upper auriculate; the inferior base is truncate, and the superior
base rounded. Apex circular; margin inciso-scrratc.
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