THE COMMON HA 
FERN 
adimentary, or very much smaller than those of the outer sides. The apices are sometimes somewhat 
multifid. It was found near Tunbridge Wells, and is not unfrequent, and tolerably constant. The 
similar to that. of some kinds of 
appearance produced by the inequality of development in th 
Gleichenia, 
9. crispun (W). This is a permanent form, in which the apices of all the fronds are multifidly- 
found in Ireland, by 
but very rarely divided. Tt has b 
1, and the lobes are wavy or curl 
Dr. Kinahan, and near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1851, by Mr. Wollaston, and is not a common form. 
1 
10, trincreium (W). This variety in its most marked character is no more than a trifoli 
Blechnum, but it not unfrequently sends up fronds more or less multifid and erisped, with the lobes 
Difureate, 16 is exceedingly rare, and was found in Ireland, in 1854, by Dr. Kinahan, by whom the 
plants were sent to Mr. Wolla 
less, a beautiful connecting 
11. cristatum (W.). This constant form, so unlike ramosum, is, nevert 
link between it and crispum. Tts peculiarities consist in a development, as it were, of the blunt apical 
lobes of crispum into branchlets, differing in that respect from the compound ramifications of ramosum. 
and the whole plant is very prone to throw up 
Its basal lobes are frequently ek 
found in 1853, 
semi-fertile fronds, the lobes of which are sometimes bifid, and sharply serrated. It wa 
near Tunbridge Wells, by Mr. Wollaston. 
12. ramosum (Kinahan). This is exactly analogous to Scolopendrium vulgare, va 
1 barren fronds divides dichotomously into branches 
rachis (very rarely the stipes) both of the fertile 
and branchlets, the apices of which are beautifully curled or tufted. ‘The variety is very raro, and, as 
gh Breagh, Wicklow, Ireland, by Dr. Kinahan ; 
far as we know, has only been found near Upper Lo 
and by Mr, J. Huddart, at Windermere, Westmoreland, 
near Erie 
ayo, Ireland, by Captain Eden 
the plants sli variety 
Му differing, 16 is rather a shy-growin 
orous variety, very irregular in its f 
13. multifurcatum (М). This is a handsome and vi rm, but 
ial brane! 
ing of the fronds once 
quite constant to its peculiarities. ‘These consist, first, in the occasio 
as well as the branches 
ог twice near the base, and secondly in the apices of tho fronds not ко divide 
nents resulting from these apical 
ing many times forked near the apex 
fureations are most irregular in form, but they spread out, and are each of them extended into a 
newhat ragged 
lengthened acute point, of which the margins are irregularly notched, producing a s 
je-bank near Penryn, Cornwall, b 
Mr. F. Symons, and 
appearance, It was found in 1853, in a hed 
was communicated to us by Mr. G. Dawson. 
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