FERN 
THE MAUI 
w sti ereetish fronds, and especially for the unequally 
EEEREN socially ; these having—as indeed the 
Lastrea cristata, bein 
triangular outline of a few of the lower pinnae, the lowest pair esp 
pulosa than that which usually occurs in 
whole frond has—much more the outline met with in Z. sp 
ish and all but the bas а 
the enlarged posterior basal lobe, which occurs in 
1 ones adnate or decurrent; they are 
L. Pilicmas, The pinnules are N 
inciso-serrate or lobed, and they sometimes show 
lebted for speci 
deorso-tobata, Tt has been found in several parts of Kent, from whence we are I 
to Dr. Allehin. 
to the педа group. The pinnae 
11. polydactyla (ME). This is a tasselled form of Filiz-mas, referriblo to th р Г 
istata, nor do they narrow much until quite close to the tassel 
nules are incised, and the basal ones have a tendency to 
which terminates each of them. The p 
dilatation. "The apex of the frond in moro or less tuted. Here and there a frond has ita apex more 
„diy tasselled, and the pinn themselves more normal, merely indicating а tendency to division ; 
laceration both in the pinna» and. 
d 
while occasionally a frond is produced in which the tendency to | 
It was found at Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire, 
xeess, becoming 
pinnules is carried t grotesque 
was communicated by B. Maund, Esq. 
m exceeding a foot in height, and its young. 
form, se 
abbreviata (E 
>). This is a dwarf grow 
næ scarcely again pinnate, the lowest 
nt, It is pinnate; the p 
fronds are glandul 
der always decurrent ; the points of the pinnules 
pinnules only being sometimes separated, the г 
о concave. "The pinnulos are large for the 
are turned upwards so that the upper surface of the pin 
size of the plant, broad, rounded at the apes, the m Шуу erenate, or erenato-lobate, the lobes 
having blunt obscure teoth. It is allied to the variety pumila, but differs in the larger size of its 
pinnules, which gives it a coarser aspect, and it is not so much recurved. The sori are for the most 
part uniserial on each side the midrib of the pinnae; and have indusia which at least while fresh, are 
margined with 
ds, as in pumila, Tt is rare, having been found in the Snowdon and Lake districts 
and at Ingleborough and Teesdale, and Wyck in Gloucestershire 
13. pumila (М). This а permanently small dwarf 
lant, remarkable among other characteristics, 
for the recurving of the points of its pinnas and of its pinnules, which give to its upper surfa 
concave appearance, The pinnas are blunt, rather deflexed, and scarcely ever more than deeply 
pinnatifid, the basal pinnnles only beh 
sometimes, but rarely, semi-detached. ‘The pinnules or 
segments are small, oblong, obtuse, е 
x, and bear a single sorus near their base on the anterior 
side; the sori, therefore, forming a simple series along the pinne on each side their rachis or midrib, 
Tt is only when the plant is very luxuriant that two 
* three sori are borne on each of the basal 
pinnules, but even then not so as to disturb the 
general uniserial arrangement. "he fronds are 
glandular, at least when young, and 
ant. Mr. Wollaston finds it sometimes 
ichotomousl 
divided at the apex. Tt seems confined to North Wales, and to alpine localities 
14. subintegra М). This variety, which occurs in the late Mr. Winch's herbarium, belon 
the Linnean Society, is doubtless а form 
мау allied to pumila and abbreviate. As in them 
the fronds are glandular, d 
1 merely pinnate; the pinna 
© short and very obtuse, pinnatifid 
half way down into blunt oblong lobes (not merely sinunted, as Mr 
ewman’s figure indicates). 
The sori are large, and form a single line on eae 
h side the midvein, about equidi 
the margin. The frond has a very narrow lance-shaped outline 
ant from it and 
It is stated by Dr, Johnstone 
to have been gathered, long since, in abundance, by the Rev, J, 
rd, at Ennis, in the county of 
Clare, Ireland. ` 
