THE LADY FERN 
apex of the fronds give them an appenrance of peculiar abruptness Sometimes the frond is narrower, 
the apex lengthened out, and here and there the pinna: are terminated by a somewhat clon 
pinnule set end ating abruptly. Occasionally a normal frond is pr 
may be compared to but with the pinnules narrower and more deeply lobed, whilst the. 
lobes are smaller and more finely notehed, This was found by Dr. Allehin at Port Erin, in the Isle 
of Man; and in ıe island another somewhat larger plant, closely related to the normal frond 
юзо described, was met wit 
E uptum (W.). This form partakes much of the characteristics of ramorum, but is sufficiently 
distinct from it. The fronds rarely branch, except near the summit, and there are only simply bie 
ог trisfureate, The рімме vary considerably in this respect, being remarkably variable in length, 
shape, and division ; their apices are almost always divided simply or multifidly, and the serratures 
of the pinnules are genera and acutely eut. ‘There are two slight modifications of 
1, by Mr. Wollaston. Both are rare and 
this var me raised from seed by Mr. J. Young 
in a batch of seedling plants at Ambleside, W 
24. ramosnm (W.). This, unlike п the other fo 
tions being very unequal. The pinna» are, so to speak, of every possible form and length, those on. 
fone division of the frond being normal, whilst on another some are long, some short, incised, 
interrupted, depauperated, Inciniated, abortive, or often altogether wanting. The pinnules have the 
mmetrieal development, their serratures being either one, two, or three-cleft on 
the same pinnule, It is sparingly fertile, and permanent under cultivation. It was found by 
W. W. Reeves, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent 
his: form differs from preemorsun 
in being of the usual size, and fertile 
ant and large, that they are alm. 
t confluent. The outline of the frond is normal, 
and the same may be said of the pinne, but they are somewhat depauperated. The pinnules are very 
irregularly laciniated, and to 
and (what is very unusual) are frequently bifid or multifid. Tt 
was found near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, by Mr. Wollaston ; and a very similar form has been found by 
Dr. Allehin at Cahir Conree, in Ireland. Another plant, somewhat more regular and normal-looking, 
with а tendency to dilatat 
Isle of Man. 
the points of the pinnules, was gathered in 1855, by Dr. Allehin, in the 
26. polycludos (AL). Under this head we include several lan 
much-divided ram 
forms found 
in Devonshire and Guernsey. ‘They 
undoseribable, no two fro 
One before us from Devonshire, o 
М. Chanter, is three-b 
branches bipinnate di 
imes bifid; the pinnules 
irregular in size, shape, and division. Another from Guernsey, sent by Mr. C Jackson, has tho pinnae 
excessively developed, and becoming braneh-like in the middle of the frond, while those at the base 
as well as apex app 
1. The pinnules on the larger pinnae are often an incl 
i& quite again pinnate, the secondary pinnules pinnatifid with inciso 
iniate lobes, 
dactylon (М). This is а monstrous plant of the ineisa typo, with flat, ovate, пово 
pinnatifd pinne. Its peculiarity consists in the apices of the pinnw being furcately divided into 
rmal-Iooking—not erisped—points ; in other words, they aro plane, and bi-tri 
forked. It was found near 
a frond. We 
fureate at the ti 
he apex of the frond is also several tim 
Nettlecombe by Mr. C. Elworthy, to whom we are indebted for learn from Mr 
Elworthy that he finds the fr 
ls of this variety to perish six weeks earlier than those of the some 
28. furcatum (ML), This is a fürente monstrous form of one of the less divided typos. Tho ends of 
in the tips; and the apex of the 
