riiin a of nniture Frond, under side.
ASPIDIUM PATENS.
K u n z e . L i n k ? F e e . MTl l d e n ow . S c i ik u i ir .
S w a r t z . S c h o t t . S lo a n . S p r e n g e l . S c i il e c i it e n d a l .
PLATES n i AND IV. VOL. V I I .
L a strea patens,
Asp id ium molle,
Folypodium patens,
“ expansum.
P b e s l . L ie b m a n n .
L i n e .
A i t o n .
POIEET.
Asp id ium—The Shield Pern. Fatens—Spreading.
I n t h e S e c t i o n L a s t r e a o p A u t h o r s .
A WELL-KNOWN F e rn , easily cultivated, and very ornamental.
An evergreen stove species.
Native of Tropical America, Africa, and Asia—Mexico and
tire "West Indies.
In troduced into the Iloyal Gardens, Kew, in the year 1784.
The fronds, which are broadly lanceolate in form, are pinn
ate; the pinnæ sessile, profoundly pinnatifid, lanceolate, and
having linear-oblong, sub-falcate segments, which have an acute
apex, and are largest near the rachis.
