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A SP ID IUM C R IST A TUM , S w a r t z .
Crested Wood-Fern.
A s p i d i u m c r i s t a t u m : — Root-stock stout, creeping, chaffy
and bearing numerous up-curved stalk-bases ; stalks a few
inches to over a foot long, chaffy, especially near the base,
with large ovate pointed thinnish scales; fronds firmly membranaceous,
nearly erect, smooth, nearly evergreen, linear-
oblong or oblong lanceolate in outline, slightly narrowed
towards the base, a foot to a foot and a half long, the fertile
ones taller than the sterile, pinnate ; pinnæ two to three
inches long, triangular-oblong, or the lowest ones triangular-
ovate, from a somewhat cordate base, deeply pinnatifid ;
divisions from six to ten pairs, oblong, very obtuse, finely
serrate or cut-toothed, but scarcely aristate, those next the
rachis largest and more deeply cut ; veins of the living plant
conspicuously impressed from above, mostly forked ; sori as
near the midvein as the margin; indusium rather large,
smooth and naked, round-reniform, the sinus not very deep.
Aspidium cristatum, S w a r t z , in S c h r a d e r s Jo u r n ., 18 0 0 , ii., p. 3 7 ; S y n .
F i l . , p . 5 2 .— S c h k u h r , K r y p t . G ew ., p. 3 9 , t. 3 7 .— W i l ld e n o w ,
S p . PL, V., p. 2 5 2 .— PuKSH, F I . A m . S e p t ., ii., p. 6 6 1 .— L in k ,
F i l . Hort. Berol., p. 10 7 .— T o r r e y , F I. New York, ii., p. 4 9 6 .—
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