THE BROAD PRICKLY-TOOTHED BUCKL 
growing, form of the species of which the lax state ia remarkably elegant. The form hore intended has 
the usual dark-contred scales. 
m, in which the scales are 
3. pumila (ML). A small subdeltoid or ovate-deltoid bipinnate variat 
pallid, We have gathered it at Hampstead, Middlesex, and Tarbet, Dun 
у British Ferns, where it was mistaken for Sir J. E. Smith's 
bartonshire, It is the form 
refered to as dumetorum in the Handbook 
strongly two-eoloured, We have seen this latter from Aber, Carnarvonshire ; Rothesay, Bute ; and the 
tmonn(ains of Dublin and Wicklow 
4, 44044 (М). This is a Devonshire plant, collected by the Rev. J. M. Chanter. It grows about 
two fet high, and has deltoid tripinnate Snely-cut fronds, the stipes slender, andthe whole aspect of 
{ho plant ight and elegant. ‘Tho sales are dark-coloured 
5. fuscipes (М). A glandular form of very elegant appearance, growing two fect high, the fronds 
nearly as road as long (one foot high, and ten and a half inches wide), tripinmate, Ше points of the 
frond and рине caudate. Tho stipes, which is comparatively slender, and has dark narrow seals is of 
a palo chestnut brown behind. Tt was obtained in Guernsey by Mr. G. Wolsey, the fortunate discoverer 
in that island of Ophioglossum lusitanicum. 
6, micromera (М. The peculiarity of this form, which has a stout stipes clothed with large very 
dark sale, and is of the normal ovate-lanceolte outline, and about two feet high, is, that it is more 
доу divided than una, Though small in sizo, it is almost quadrpimuat, and the pinmules and lobes 
lave sharp narrow tet, It was found inthe neighbourhood of Ifiacombe by the Rev. J. М. Chanter 
7. nana (Хота), The experienc of Mr. Tatham and Mr, Chanter proves this to bea permanent 
a plant of dat stature, m two or three inches to nearly а foot in height, ‘The fronds aro 
orate, bipinnae, and the stipes is furnished with lanceolate dark-centred scales, The planta from Sette 
and from Ilfracombe aro very similar, but from the lator neighbourhood there are two forms differing 
slightly in the colour of the scales, and in the form and manner of the toothing of the pinnules; the 
“мег plant having the more pallid scales 
8. dumetorum (ML), A dwarf plant, with ovato or clongately triangular fronds clothed beneath and on 
the stipes and rachis with glands; the stipes furnished with pal faintly two-cloured scales, which are 
peculiar in being fimbriated sparingly along their margins, The sori are large, scattered, and produe 
freely on both young and small-sized plants. The largest plants seldom exceed a foot in height. Some 
of tho forms have been referred to collina, but it diers from that in іш abundant glands, and in ia 
pallid fimbriated scales. The Arran, Devon, and Isle of Man forms have their scales somewhat less 
fimbriated than the others. A small ovate form, agreeing with this in the scale and in the glands 
found in Glen Croe, Argyleshire, is tripinnate at the base, and has the pinnutes much smaller than 
usual, giving it a somewhat different aspect, and it is probably a permanent departure from thie 
type of variatio 
9. collina (Хетта), This is a narrow ese form, from ono to two fect high, with the fronds varying 
from narrow ovate elongated at the point, so as to become ovato-lanceolate, to narrow oblong-lanecolata. 
‘The pinnules are bluntly-oblong, with coarse acuminately-aristate teeth. The seales of the stipes are 
ong, narrow, and strongly two-coloured. Some of the plants we have seen are smooth, others 
sparingly glandular, but much Jess so than dumetora. Tt is a very distinct elegant, and permanent 
form. 
10. Smithië (М), A small plant, which, on the authority of Mr, HL. Shepherd 
him by Dr. Mackay, and is the plant from which Sir J. 
