THE COMMON HARTS-TONGUE FERN 
the shape of а crab's-claw, having the external margin smooth, and the internal erenate or dentate 
Tt was found at Chislehurst, Kent, by Mr. Wol 
п, in 1854, 
dismultiid asin cristatum (57), the lower port 
dum (W). In this variety the apex of the fro 
being normal. The fronds are stipes, and this stipes so rigid or wiry 
that it is quite a remarkable feature in the plant, It has a slight tendency, also, to be supra-lineate 
Mr. Wollaston found it in Sussex in 1854, 
61. laceratum (NL). This is, perhaps, the most remarkable variety yet known; instead of bei 
simply strap-shaped, the fronds may be not inaptly called sub-pinnatifid, “It is short and 
broad, sub-deltoid, the margin deeply inciso-lobate, the lobes large, crowded, and multifid erispod at 
their apex ; or sometimes strap-shaped, the margin inciso-lobate, with the 
bes narrow, elongate, and 
tapering toa point; the apex sub-multifid; the base sometimes hastate.” Tt was first found at Taunton, 
Somorsotshiro, by Mr. J. Young, who has raised from it many seedlings, bearing more or less the charac 
ters of the original. One very similar form has lately been f 
und in Yorkshire, by Mr. Clapham, of 
Scarborough. It is now а common garden variety, and is sometimes known under the names of 
palmatum, serratum, and endiciafolium. 
62. glomeratum (М). There is no plane or strap-shaped portion to the frond of this variety, but it 
ain in so dense a manner, that a frond of about three inches high forms almost 
a perfectly globular mass, It was found in Jersey by M. Piequet, and was sent to us by Mr. Jackson. 
63. ramosum (Wild). This, with the variety digitatum (65) and glomeratum (62), are the most ramose 
of all the forms о 
Scolopendrium. It is ram 
«d at tho apex, at least two hundred fold, in some instances, 
Each frond consists in а multiplication of all its p 
ramifying as the limbs of a tree, and each branch b 
saring a densely and multi 
ly crisped frond and 
frondlets almost ad in 
Its early history is not known, but is mentioned as long 
diy 
shire, It is uniformly constant and reproduces itself by its spores 
Plukenet’s time, Recently, 
Rey. J. М. Chanter in De 
од examples have boon found by Mr. C. Jackson in Guernsey 
64. ramosum majus (Clapham). This is quite unlike ramosum 
ing less multifid, Mr. Clapham says 
that “the peculiarity it p 
great thickness of the stipes, which seems to be a combination 
ip ti 
of two or three run into one, so that several frond 
branch out from the summit of the stipes. ‘The 
fronds in their outlines and cutting vary much.” "It originated in the Camellia house of Mr 
Clapham, 
of Settle, Yorkshire, where it accidentally came up in the soil.” It is quite constant. In specimens 
sent by Mr. Clapham, two or threo vigorous, almost normal fronds, grew on one stipes, 
65. digitatum (У). "Thi 
variety resembles ramosum (63), except that its fronds are flat, that is, all its 
ramifications and divisions are in one plane, so that the fronds are somewhat hand-shaped. The won 
derfally compou 
Vd ramifications of this variety is shown below, only approximately, however, іп the 
fifth, sixth, and seventh series of divisions, It is by no means a common form. The frond from which 
this table was drawn up, was grown by Mr, Wollaston, and with the living plant, is now in his possessio 
[ у шр possession, 
мәле 21% 
66. Jacerum (Sim). This variety is a modification of the last, from which it was r 
isod, but 
is permanently unlike it. It has а tendency to be viviparous, The fronds are branched as in 
digitatum, nt. the leafy portions are much depauperated, and frequently little else than the vei 
remain, giving the appearance of a leaf Incerated or torn into shreds, with the irre 
wlarly-jagged 
margins shriveled. It was raised from spores by Mr. R. Sim, of Foot's Cray, Kent, and is rare 
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