P l a t e X L .
A S P ID IUM GOLDIAN UM, H o o k e r .
Go ld ie ’ s W o o d -F e rn .
A s p i d i u m G o u d i a n u m : — Root-stock stout, ascending,
chaffy; stalks about a foot long, chaffy at the base with
large ovate-acuminate ferruginous or deep-lustrous-brown
scales; fronds standing in a crown, one to two and a half
feet long, broadly ovate, or the fertile ones oblong-ovate,
chartaceo-membranaceous, nearly smooth, bright-green above,
a little paler beneath, pinnate; pinnæ broadly lanceolate, five
to eight inches long, one to two and a half broad, usually,
especially the lowest ones, narrower at the base than in the
middle, pinnatifid almost to the midrib; segments numerous,
oblong-linear, often slightly falcate, crenate, or serrate with
sharp incurved teeth; veins free, mostly with three veinlets,
the lowest superior veinlets bearing near their base the large
sori very near the midvein ; indusium large, flat, smooth, orbicular
with a narrow sinus.
Aspidium Goldianum, H o o k e r , in Goldie’s Acc. of rare Canad. PI. in
Edinb. Phil. Journ., vi., p. 3 3 3 ; FI. Am.-Bor., ii., p. 260.—
T o r r e y , FI. New York, ii., p. 495. — G r a y , Manual, ed. ii., p.
598, ed. V., p. 666.— M e t t e n iu s , Fil. Hort. Lips., p. 92;
Aspid-, p. 56.— W il l ia m s o n , Ferns of Kentucky, p. 95, t. xxxiv.
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