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A S P L E N I U M F I L I X - F OE M I N A , B e r n F .
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Plate LXXVI.
A S P L E N IU M F IL IX -FOE M IN A , B e r n h a r d i .
Lady-Fern.
A s p l e n i u m F i l i x - f oe m i n a : — Root-stock rather stout,
creeping or assurgent, covered with the blackened imbricating
bases of former stalks; stalks clustered, a few inches to a
foot long, chaffy at the base, greenish or brownish-stramineous
or even light purple upwards; fronds one to three feet long
forming a crown, softly membranaceous, oblong-lanceolate
acuminate, more or less narrowed at the base, twice or some
times thrice pinnate; primary pinnæ numerous, short-stalkec
oblong-lanceolate from a broad base, acuminate ; pinnules ad
nate to the narrowly winged secondary rachis, ovate-oblong
and doubly serrate, or elongated and pinnately incised with
cut-toothed segments; veins forked or pinnated, the lowest
superior veinlet of each group commonly soriferous ; sori near
the midrib or midvein; indusium short, variously curved, often
crossing the fertile veinlet and continued down on the other
side, usually lacerate-ciliate on the free edge.
Asplenitim Filix-foemina, Bernhardi, in Schraders N. Journ. Bot., iSo6,
ii., p. 26, 48, t. ii., fig. 7.— R. Brown, Prod. Fl. Nov. HolL,
p. 150.— Hooker, Brit. Fl., ed. ii., p. 445,— Link, Fil. Hort, iik A
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