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extent of them for yourselves ; many other species, doubtless, will be found to par- 

 take of these characters when the subject is more attended to. I also show you 

 specimens of many of them, mostly gathered by myself, and hope, at a future 

 meeting, to state a few more facts connected with the subject, and to bring before 

 you other classes which are as well defined as this. 



LIST OF SPECIES OF BRITISH FERNS. 



Variety Kamosum (Cristatum) ; and Subvariety Multifidum. 

 [Explanation of Marks — Species in brackets, not recorded as Irish, thus 

 [(Woodsia)]. Marked thus, (?) I am in doubt concerning. X 1 shows rachis 

 divided ; X 2, stipe, do. do. ; Z, pinnae, or pinnules.J 

 Adiantum Capillus Veneris (Linnasus). 



X 2, cultivated plant from Ireland ; G. B. Wollaston, Esq. 

 Eupteris aquilina (Newm.) ; subvar. multifidum (Mei) ; Phyt., 1853, p. 1,036; 

 X 1 and 2, scarce ; Z, rare (a diminutive specimen from top of Three-rock 

 Mountain, County Dublin ; has rachis divided to within half an inch of 

 ground). Not very uncommon about Ballinteer, in this county. 

 England : G. B. Wollaston, Esq., Epping Forest (Kin). 

 Lomaria spicant (Desv.) ; subvar. multifidum (Mei) ; Phyt., 1853, pp. 892 and 

 1,036. X 1 and 2, rather rare ; Z, rare. Clare and Dublin ; very fine at foot 

 of Great Sugarloaf, County Wicklow ; generally grows in moist situations. 

 Kerry : W. Andrews, Esq. 

 England. Figured Deakin, Fl. Br., p. 52. Very fine specimens of Z forwarded 

 me by G. B. Wollaston, Esq., as bifidum. Jersey, M. Piquet. Phyt., 1853, 

 p. 1,135. 

 Var. Ramosum (Mei) ;* Phyt., 1853, pp. 892 and 1,036 ; proc. Dublin Nat. 

 Hist. Soc, 1853. Lough Breagh, County Wicklow. 

 Notolepeum Ceterach (Newm.) ; subvar. multifidum ; Phyt., 1853, p. 1,036. X 2, 

 rare. Specimen, from Lucan, co. Dublin, given me by W. H. Luscombe, Esq. 

 England : G. B. Wollaston, Esq. 

 Phyllitis Scolopendrium (Newm.) ; subvar. multifidum (Ray). X 1, very common; 

 X 2, rare ; Z, rare. The commonest of the group in Ireland (Mack. Flor. 

 Hib., 343) ; very fine near Chapelizod, County Dublin. 

 England, common — vide Newman's British Ferns, &c. Synonyms. Lobatum ; 



ramosum. Jersey, M. Piquet, ut antea. 

 Var. Ramosum (Mei) ; England (Newm. Br. Ferns, 289, &c). I am not aware 

 of the extreme form having been found in Ireland. Undulatum, by some 

 called enspum, has ; fine specimens of it from Colin Glen, Belfast, were shown to 

 me by A. Crawford, Esq., and form Birenniforme (W.) given me by W. H. 

 Luscombe, Esq., from Dublin. 

 Syn. Ramosum (Moore, 179) ; multifidum (ib.) ; crispum, No. 176 ; daedalea 

 (Koch) ; Crista Galli (Wol.) ; Digitatumj (Wol.) ; Undulatum ? Endivifolium 

 Young (vide remarks), furcatum (Wol), Birenniforme (Wol). 

 Amesium Ruta muraria (Newm.) ; subvar. multifidum (Mei) ; Phyt. ut antea. 

 X 2, very rare. Dublin and Louth. A specimen also given me by W. H. 

 Luscombe, Esq. 

 England : G. B. Wollaston, Esq. 



Var. Ramosum (Mei) (?) ; England. Forwarded me by their discoverer, G. B. 

 Wollaston, Esq., by whom they were named cristatum. % 

 Asplenium viride (Lightf.) ; subvar. multifidum (Mei). X 2, rare. 

 England : G. B. Wollaston, Esq. 

 Syn. ramosum (Linn.) (?). 



* Barren fronds, rnultifidly dichotomous; segments of apex confluent at their edges, and curled; 

 veins terminating in apices in lash of branches. Fertile fronds, hermaphrodite, branched ; their 

 apices similar to barren fronds, 1854. 



t Crista galli (Wol.), apex of frond entire, curled on itself, and resembling a cockscomb, Digi- 

 tatum (Wol.); secondary midribs arising from main midrib; divisions rnultifidly crisped and con- 

 tinous with main portions. Birenniforme (Wol.), apex of frond kidney-shaped; midrib running 

 along inner edtre of segments. 



t Cristatum (Wol ), primary divisions of iroud, split and curled at their apices. 



