What kind of fern is this and tips for dividing it

I picked up this beautiful fern from an estate sale 4 months ago. I've never grown ferns before, but I've grown very attached to this plant! I do not know what type of fern it is. Any guesses? It's actually two plants in one pot, and it may be two separate types of ferns. I'll post closer up pictures of the leaves.

It's quite potbound, so I was thinking I might try to divide the two plants. Does anyone have any tips on how to do this without damaging it? Would I be better to just replant it into a bigger pot? I really love this plant, so I'm very nervous about messing with it.

Also, it looks like it has little new growths on some of the leaves! Are these separate plants, and can I take these new growths and plant them? How neat it is to see! I'll post more pictures of this.

Here you can see that it's actually two plants in one pot.

Here's a close up picture of the frond from one of the plants.

Here's a close up picture of a frond from the other plant.

And look at these growths from the leaves! I was absolutely amazed to see this! Is this common? Are they new fern plants growing? Can I plant them?

Mother Fern (Asplenium bulbiferum) more than likely

It's a beautiful plant and does look like Asplenium bulbiferum. I just googled and found this info at Wikipedia saying this fern grows little bulbils from the fronds, so maybe you will have new ferns from that mother plant!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asplenium_bulbiferum

And, here's the link to the Daves Garden Plant Files for this fern: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55521/

And another link with more info: http://www.plantcare.com/encyclopedia/hens-and-chicken-fern-112.aspx

Thanks! Do you think it will damage the plant to try to separate the two plants? It is quite potbound, so I think I should probably do something. Any advice on how to do this or if I should attempt to do this at all?

Hi, I was just curious as to what you decided to do about dividing your ferns, as I see nobody was able to advise you. I'm new to ferns, too, but I have read about other ferns that, when becoming potbound, can be divided successfully, so I think yours probably could be.

I rescued a poor neglected fern a few months ago. It was so pot bound and sunburnt I figured any crazy surgery I did on it had to help. I just took it out of the generic home store hanging basket it was in, and chopped the ridiculous root ball it into four chunks using some hand hedge whackers and hand nippers. It was hard to get through that rootball! Then I tapped out the roots and just repotted the chunks in a bigger hanging pot. It recovered well. There was just so much brown dead stuff intermixed with the live leaves, I just couldn't get rid all the dead stuff without shredding the whole dang mess. Now, it's not the prettiest of ferns, but it lives, and appears happy...

On the other hand, yours is so beautiful! It's certainly not choked by a ton of dead stuff! I bet you could repot that healthy looking thing a lot easier than my emergency patient. I think if you just carefully take it out of the pot it's in, and tap out the roots, you'd probably get those two plants apart pretty easily and plant them in separate pots. If it's not easy, don't worry, just be really gentle and don't break the leaves, and work the roots apart. Then you can have one on each side of the shelf! I'm not the best person on here to talk about soils, but I usually use potting mix and add some extra vermiculite or chopped sphagum moss to it.

What size pot do you have it in?! It looks so shallow compared to the hight of the plant. If it works, though... I'll have to get myself one of those hen n' chicken ferns and a shallow planter - it looks so chic!