THE COMMON POLYPODY 
quently not generally coincident on the same parts. T should also be mentio 
parently when the vigour of the plant has received some chee ее 
not with the one so named by Willdenow. - Our plant was found many yeu ue 
been lately found in several stations by Dr. Allehin. In son оик 1 has; o ш 
und at Postwich, in Norfolk (17, Hooker); at Saltw tle, in Kent (Ib. Gray) о У 
Berry Pomeroy Castle, in Devon; at Tintern Abbey, and Chepstow Castle in Monmouth (70. Heard 
Aberglashlyn, in Camarvonshire (7. AUehin); and elsewhere. Tt grows, moreover in Germany; at Ci 
in Portugal; and wo believe the P. Fée, which is met with in Sardinia, Corsien, and Tener 
to be a form of this Tis most beautifully developed state is that from the Dargle, and the abe 
description is made from a remarkably fine specimen of that form, communicated by Mrs, Del 
The Welsh Polypody—P. vuran: caumicun—(see Puare TIL) is, like the last, an extrem 
elegant plant, but it is almost rile. The fr regulary bipinnatifd through 
wine ovate or ovate-oblong. The lobes are rowed, narrow at the base, and acumina 
divided into narrow linear or lincar-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, serrated, crowded lob 
form, which is chiefly known as а garden plant, does not, we b wer produce fructiie 
cultivation, and it is very rarely indeed t t. Tt has b nd 
Montpelier, though originally in Wales—hen J. Lowe has communicated it from 
wood near Macelosfcld, in Cheshire, Mr: E. Т. Bennett has favoured us with specimens from th 
neighbourhood of Ross, in Herefordshire, which are almo 1 in structure with the Welsh plant 
and others quite similar, gathered at the same time, are paringly fructifiod. 
For the following enumeration of the various forms above mentioned, with ther abnormal 
ones which are more or less constant, we have to express our thanks to Mr. G. В. Wollaston—whi 
ame is well known among those familiar with British Ferns as that of one who collect у 
success. These abnormal forms belong to two types of development: o " 
ther than length, results in a frond of br tively short. To the first of these groups 
belong the varieties numbered below fro ©; and the remaining numbers, 12 to 17 
are referihle to the second 
other to bear different names; but at t T in a stato of cul Е 
wever, that is constant under all ances is the variet тарлы) 
һе ends of the lobes narrowed gradually to а point — "c 
acuto-lobed normal fum. А ا‎ 
3. bifidum has the lobos generally bitid or tvo-eeft, but some vm m 
on tho lower third of the frond, sometimes reaching to two-thirds, and : 
sory Mapa Te nda are tbn лш Tt вани 
3. ramorum is a more fully developed. form of the foregoing, nd is often raided in the rac 
which is and is furnished with lobes also bifid or multi. It is very тап 
