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CAM P TO SO RU S R H IZO PH Y L LU S , L in k .
W a lk in g -L e a f .
C a m p t o s o r u s r h i z o p h y l l u s : — Root-stock short, creeping
or ascending; stalks tufted, slender, flaccid, green, but becoming
brown near the base ; fronds a few inches to a foot long, sub-coriaceous,
evergreen, smooth, gradually narrowed from a deeply cordate
and auricled base to a long and yery slender prolongation,
decumbent and often rooting at the end ; veins reticulated near
the midrib, and having free apices along the margin ; sori elongated,
variously placed on either side of the veins, often face to
face in pairs, or extending around the upper part of the meshes ;
indusium delicate.
Camptosorus rhizophyllus, L in k , Hort. Berol., ii., p. 69: Fil. Sp. Hort.
Berol, p. 8 3 . — P r e s l , Tent. Pterid., p. 12 1 , t. 4 , f ig . 8. — H o o k e r ,
Gen. Fil., t. 5 7 , C ; Fil. Exot., t. 8 5 . — G r a y , Manual. — D a r l in g to
n , Flora Cestr., ed. iii., p. 3 9 3 . — M e t t e n iu s , Fil. Hort. Lips.,
p. 67, t. 5 , fig. 6.
Asplenium rhizophyllum, L in n æ u s , S p . P l., p . 1 5 3 6 . — S w a r t z , Syn. Fil.,
p. 7 4 . — W ild en ow , Sp. PL, V., p. 3 0 5 . — M ich a u x , FI. Bor. Am.,
ii., p. 264. — B ig e low , FI. Boston.
Antigramma rhizophylla, J. S m ith , in Hook. Journ. Bot., iv., p. 17 6 :
Ferns, British and Foreign, p. 226.— T o r r e y , FI. New York, ii.,
p. 494, t. 159 {Asplenium').