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F IL IC E S— G y r a t * . B r . P o l y p o d i a c e ® . K a u lf. F m o i s v e ræ . Willd.
G e n . C h a « . A S P L E N W M . L in n . S o r i lin c a r e s , sp a r s i, d o r sa le s . Involucrum e v e n a la t e -
r a lit e r o r tum d u c e n s , m a r g in e su p e r io r e lib e r o . B r .
A s p l e n i u m im bricalum ; fronde lineari-lanceolata 111-rarissime tri-pinnata, pinnis Imbricatis, pin-
nuhs cuneatis bi-tridentatis, soris p lemmqnc solitariis.
H a b . In S ssu iis rupium, lo c is umbrosis, prope verticem montis “ F ichincha," Andium Pera-
vianornm, alt. 15,5 0 0 pcd. D . P r o f. Gul. Jame son.
S tip e s brevis, v ix b iu n d d is , teres, hinc snlcatns, g k b e r , nitidus, fusco-purpnreus.
F ro n s sp ith am™ et t.ltr ., drenmscrlptione Imearhlanceolata, bipinnata. P in n a , breves, drcuniscriptiono ovatai
vel o v .to -d d to id e » , im b r ic a te ; pinnulis panda, 3 - 5 , cuneatis, sessilibus, v ix tres lineas longis, glabris,
apice integris v d obtuse bi-tridentatis, nervis simph db ns vel di-triehotomis in strac lis; terminali majore!
, inferioribus non raro iterum divisis binis ternisve; hinc Irons Iripinnata.
R a ch is teres, nudus, ati-o-fuscus, nitidus.
Sortis oblongus, plerumque solitarius, in singula piimula unicus.
Involucrum membranaceum, pallide fuscum, subdiaphanum.
Cap su la globosoe, annulatæ, pedicellatoe.
S m in a ovalia, intense fusca.
F ig . 1. Pinna cum soris. f. 2 . Capsulæ. f. 3. Semina m«/.
T his species has the habit o f Camopteris {D a r e a , Sm .), and tlie true fructification o i A splemium.
W e do n o t find it to accord with any described species, nor does its discoverer appear to have found
it elsewhere than at a h e ig h t o f b etween 15,0 0 0 and 16,0 0 0 fe et, upon the summit o f Pichincha,
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