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A S P L E N IU M E B E N E U M , A it o n .
E b o n y Spleenw or t.
A s p l é n iu m e b e n e u m : — Root-stock short, creeping; stalks
short, dark reddish-brown or nearly black, and polished, as is the
rachis ; fronds erect, a span to a foot or more high ; firm-membranaceous,
narrowly linear-oblanceolate, moderately acuminate,
pinnate ; -pinnæ numerous, mostly horizontal and alternate, usually
crowded, oblong or oblong-linear, half an inch to an inch and a
half long, sessile, dilated or auricled on the upper or on both sides
of the base, crenate or serrate or even incised, mostly obtuse, the
lower ones gradually shorter and deflexed ; sori oblong, oblique,
numerous, nearer the costa than the margin, often confluent at
maturity.
Asplénium ebeneum, A ito n , Hortus Kewensis, ed. i.. iii., p . 4 6 2 . —S w a e t z ,
Syn. Fit, p. 7 9 . — W il ld en ow , S p . PL, v., p . 3 2 9 . —B ig e low , Flor.
Bost., p . 4 2 2 .— T o r r e y , Flora o f New Y o r k , ii., p . 4 9 2 . — G r a y .
Manual, ed. omn. — H o o k e r , S p . Fit, iii., p . 1 3 9 .
Acrostichum plaiyneuron, L in n æ u s , S p . P L , p . 1 5 2 7 .
Polypodium auriculaUim, L in n æ u s , Herb, (in part) !
Asplemum polypodioides, S w a r t z , “ Sobrad. Journ., 18 0 0 , ii., p . 5 3 ; ” Syn.
Fib, p p . 7 9 , 2 7 2 . —S ch k u h r , K r y p t . Gew., p . 6 7 , t. 7 3 .
Asplenium triclwmanoides, M ic h a u x , FI. Bor. A m ., ii., p . 2 6 5 !
H a b . Canada and New England southward to Florida, and westward