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A S P L E N IU M S E R R A T U M , L i n n .
S er ra ted Spleenwort.
A s p l é n i u m S e r r a t u m : — Fronds growing in a crown from
a short thick erect root-stock, simple, subcoriaceous or charta-
ceous, one and a half to two and a half feet high, three to four
inches broad, spatulate or linear-oblanceolate, narrowed from the
middle down to the very short stalk, the apex subacute or short-
acuminate, the edges crenulate or (more commonly) finely but
irregularly serrate ; midrib stout, slightly channelled above, keeled
and often blackish purple beneath ; veins closely placed, free, rising
from the midrib at an angle of about sixty-five degrees, mostly
once forked near the midrib, and running out into the teeth of
the margin ; sori very much elongated, following the veins of the
upper half of the frond from near the midrib half way to the
margin; involucres single, the free edge entire.
Asplénium serratum, L in n , Sp. PL, p. 1538. — S w a r t z , Syn. Fil., p. 74.—
W il l d e n o w , Sp. PL, v., p. 304. — S c h k u h r , Crypt. Gew., p. 6 1, t.
64. — H o o k e r , Fil. E x o t, t. 70; Sp. Fil., iii., p. 81. — H o o k e r &
B a k e r , Syn! Fil., p. 193 ; &c., &:c.
Asplénium nidus, R a d d i, Fil. Brasil, p. 34, t. 53 (not of Linnæus).
Asplénium crenulaium, P r e s l , Tentamen Pteridographiæ, p. 106 (founded
on Raddi’s plate).
Lingita cervina longo lato serratoque folio, P l u m ie r , Traité des Fougères de
l’Amcrique, p. 108, t. 124.
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