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or less scaly.— Hook. Ic. Plant, x. t. 938. A. Purdieanoides,Karst . FI. Columb. i. t. 32.
Hab. Jamaica : moist woods; La Fundacion, Purdie. Columbia, Karsten .—The affinity of this with our A. Finlaysonianum will be evident to those whohave the opportunity of comparing it with specimens of our preceding species,from which it is truly distinct. The Aspl. Purdieanoides of Karsten showsthat the same species is now found in Columbia, where it is the representative ofthe Indian A. Finlaysonianum.
{Veins and veinlets as in the last Subsection. Sort short. Involucres obsolete.
Back of the frond covered with densely imbricated , reticulated scales.—Genus
Ceterach of Adanson and others.)
305. A. (Hemidictyum) Ceterach, L.; caudex short thickdensely rooting, fronds 6-10 inches long ccespitose lanceolatetapering below into a scaly slender stipes coriaceous opaquedeeply pinnatifid subpinnate at the base green above andnaked beneath densely clothed with imbricated tawny entireor toothed scales, segments broad-ovate or oblong horizontalobtuse lower ones or pinnae much abbreviated, veins anasto-mosing copiously towards the margin, sori short-oblong, in-volucre very narrow often obsolete.— Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1538.Grammitis Ceterach, Sw. Syn. Fit. p. 23. Ceterach officinarum,Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 136. Webb, Ft. Canar. iii. p. 443. Hook.Gen. Fil. t. 113 A, and Brit. Flora, ed. 7- t. 9. f. 1.Mett. Hort. Fit. Lips. p. 80. Pappe and Raws. Syn. Fil. Afr.Austr. p. 23. Scolopendrium Ceterach, Sm. Engl. Bot. 1. 1244.Gymnogramme Ceterach, Spr. —/3. aureum; larger, segmentsmore elongated, scales toothed. Ceterach aureum, Link, inVon Buck, Canar. Ins. p. 138. Webb, FI. Canar. iii. p. 433.Acrostichum aureum, “ Cav. Anal, de Cienc. Nat. iv. p. 104/’Grammitis aurea, Sw. Syn. Fil. p. 33 and p. 45. CeterachCanariensis, Willd. Sp. PI. v. p. 137. Asplenium latifolium,Bory, Isles Fort. p. 311. t. 6. Ceterach latifolium, Fee, Gen.Fil. p. 206. t. 30. f. 1 (excellent).
Hab. From the islands of Gothland, north {Fries ), to the Canary Islands andAzores , south. Eastward it extends to Uralian Siberia, through southern Europe and the Caucasus, Asia Minor to Kurdistan , Major Garden ; to North-westernIndia , Persia , prov. Karabagh , Scovitz. Afghan , Kashmir , Tibet , Edyworth ,Griffith , Hook. fil. and Thomson , etc.—I find no record of its being found onthe continent of Africa except in the extreme north, Algeria , Hochstetter , and southat Bavian’s River, Cape of Good Hope , Krebs , as stated in the Linnaea, x. p. 496.The report of its being found in Brazil is probably founded in error.—Var. j8. aureum.Common on the moist rocks of the lower regions of the islands of Teneriffe andPalma, Bory , Von Buck , Webb. We possess fine specimens from the last-mentionedgentleman, from Bourgeau , C. Lemann , etc.—This well-known Fern has, as a genus,had no resting-place, and now 1 have ventured to restore to it its old Linnsean name.Most botanists have considered the sori to be destitute of involucre, and have
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