I h e ‘wall-rue’ Spleenwort, as this Fern is very aptly called,
is a common and widely-spread indigenous species, clothing old
walls with its small leaden-green fronds. Although so easily to
be procured, it is by no means an easy Fern to keej) under
pot culture.
An evergreen hardy Fern.
Native ol England, and found throughout the whole of Eurojae.
In India, Russia in Asia, Siberia, Algeria, and North America.
Fronds glabrous, triangular in form, bipinnate, pinnules obo-
vate-cuneate, bluntly toothed on the margin. Fronds terminal,
adherent to a tufted rhizoma.
Son elongated, eventually becoming confluent, and covering
the whole under surface. Indusium fringed at the margin.
Length of frond from two to five inches; colour a dull leaden
green.
Mr. Moore describes seven varieties in his “Nature-printed
Ferns:”—
1st.—Multifidum, Wollaston.
2nd.— Cristatum, Wollaston.
3rd.— Proliferum, Wollaston.
4th.—Dissectum, Wollaston.
5th.— Cuneatum, Moore.
6th.—Pinnatum, Moore.
7th.—-Unilaterale, Moore.
It is iu all the Nurserymen’s Catalogues.
The illustration is from a plant in my own collection.
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