Of thirteen genera three are still existing, namely, Gleichenia, now inhabiting the Cape of Good Hope, and New Holland; Lygodium, now spread extensively through tropical regions, but having some species which live in Japan and North America; and asplenium, a cosmopolite form.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell
But he remarked that it was extraordinary in what odd places we sometimes do find plants; he knew a single plant of asplenium Trichomanes which had no other within thirty miles of it; it was growing on a tombstone which had come from a long distance and from a Trichomanes country.
"The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"
Samuel Butler
The tiny asplenium Trichomanes, which has never before flourished when transplanted by me, is sending up fresh fronds, already fruiting.
"The Mayflower, January, 1905"
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