ASPLENIUM MARINUM. SEA-SIDE SPLEENWORT.
A S PL EN IUM marinum ; frondibus pinnatis, pinnis ovatis obliquis inæqualiter crenatis, basi superîore
subauriculatis.
A S PL EN IUM marinum. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1540. Huds. Angl. p. 453. With. Bot. A rr. ed. 4.
vol. 3. p. 753. Lightf Scot. p. 664. Boit. Fil. p. 26. 1. 15. Schkuhr C rypt, t. 68.
Engl. Bot. t. 392. Smith Fl: B r it. p. 1128. Swartz Syn. Fil. p. 79- Willd. Sp. P I.
vol. 5. p. 318. Lam. Diet. vol. 2. p . 305. Decand. Fl. Gall. ed. 3. vol. 2. p . 555.
• Fl. Gall. Syn. p. 113.
CH AM Æ F IL IX marina anglica. R aii Syn. p. 119- Pluh. P h y t. t. 253.
/3. pinnis lobatis seu laciniatis.
A D IA N TUM trapeziforme. Huds. Angl. p. 460. nec Linn. (fide-Sm.)
A D IA N TUM majus Coriandri folio, et Adianto vero affinis minor Scotica. R aii Syn. p . 124.
Class a n d Ord e r . CRYPTOGAMIA F IL ICE S .
[N atural Ord e r . F IL ICE S , Linn. Juss. Decand. B r . Div. I . GYRATÆ.]
G e n . Ch ar. Sori lineares, sparsi, dorsales. Involucrum e vena lateraliter ortum ducens, margine superiore
libero. B r . -
R ad ix dense fibrosa, fibris crassiusculis, flexuosis, ri-
gidis, tomentoso-squamosis, fuscis.
St ip it e s bi-tripollicares, numerosi, lajves, fusci, supra
canaliculati.
R achis fusca, alata;
F rons spitham®a ad pedalem, lanceolata, pinnata.
PiNNiE altern®, vix unciam long®, ovat®, obtus®, supra
saturate virides, infra pallidiores, nervos®, mar-
ginibus in®qualiter crenat®, basi superiore oblique
dilatat®, subauriculat®, superiores minores,
confluentes.
F ructificatio : Sori suboppositi, lineares.
Ca psu l e numeros®, subspheric®, pedicellat®, annulo
elastico incompleto instruct®, transversim irre-
gulariter rumpentes.
Semina parva, fusca, echinata.
Fig. 1. Pinna with the lines of fructification, slightly magi
sules. Fig. 4. Capsule-brush open, having dischargee
On the rocky coasts of G reat Britain the present is no
description and figure were made, were kindly communic
bourhood of Penzance, Cornwall. In other countries it s
one or two places on the shores of the Mediterranean,
Europe. In Barbary, however, in Spain, and in the C
according to some authors.
Root thickly fibrous, the fibres thickish, flexuose, rigid,
between tomentose and scaly, brown.
St ipe s from two to three inches long, numerous, smooth,
brown, channelled above.
R achis brown, winged.
F rond from a span to a foot high, lanceolate, pinnate.
PiNNiE alternate, scarcely an inch long, ovate, obtuse,
above dark green, paler beneath, nerved, the
margins unequally crenate, the superior base obliquely
dilated and somewhat auriculate, the superior
pinn® smaller, confluent.
F ruct ifica t io n : Sori somewhat opposite, linear.
Capsules numerous, nearly spherical, pedicellate, furnished
with an incomplete elastic ring, transversely
but irregularly breaking.
Seeds small, brown, echinate.
i. Fig. 2. Single Soims. Fig. 3 .3 . Three unopened Cap-
. its seeds. Fig. 5. Seeds.—All more or less magn.
: an uncommon species. The specimens from which our
ated by our friend the Rev. W . T . Bree, from the neigh-
eems to be a scarce Fern, being found in F rance only in
and not a t all on the northern coasts of the continent o f
inary Isles, it has been met w ith; and even in Jamaica,
I t loves shady situations,fin the clefts of rocks ; and in caves that are entirely excluded from the rays of the sun
we have seen i t lengthened out as if desirous of more light
The fructification may be found, we believe, a t all seasons of the year. In the summer months we have observed
the capsules perfected, and our own specimens were covered with the dark lines of seed-vessels in December.
We have followed the learned author of the Flora B ritannica in making the Adiantum trapeziforme of Hudson
the var. (2. of this plant, having never seen i t ourselves.