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Blechnum spicant. 



B. s. concinnum. Druery. Exmoor. Fronds narrow and 



of uniform width, lobes like small scallop shells, 



unique. 

 B. s. subconfluens. Several places. Pinnae confluent 



near frond tips. 

 B. s. polydactylum. Wooda Bay. Fronds divided at 



tips. 

 B. s. polydactylum. Colyton. Fronds divided at tips. 

 B. s. strictum. Camelford. Pinna:; serrate, good form. 

 B. s. strictum. Dartmoor. Pinnae serrate, good form. 

 B. s. contractum. Dartmoor. Lower pinnae short and 



serrate. 

 B. s. rotundatum. Aberfeldy. Fronds narrow, almost 

 linear, with pinnae as round lobes. 



Specialities Raised. 



A. f.f. plumosum. superbum. Druery. Raised from spores 



of A . /./. plumosiim elegans Parsons, raised from 

 Axminstcv pUimosiim, wild find, fronds very plumose 

 and finely crested, although parent quite devoid of 

 crest. 

 A. f.f. plumosum Druery. Raised from A . f.f .p. supcvhnm 

 Dvnciy, a magnificent form; nothing to compare to it. 

 A. f.f. plumosum superbum \ All sister plants to the last, 

 percristatum Druery. i.e. from same batch of 



A. f.f. kalon [spores; all -crested to third 



A. f.f. grandiceps - - - - j or fourth degree. 

 A. f.f. dissectum . . . .\ 



A. f.f. foliosum !- Same batch, but uncrested. 



A. f.f. plumosissimum - -J 



There are some half-dozen others of equal merit but 

 unnamed, the whole batch being most remarkable and 

 forming an easily recognizable section even in their off- 

 spring, of which a great number have been raised from 

 spores and bulbils which some of them produce on the 

 frond backs in conjunction with the spores. This is 

 inherited from the Axminster progenitor. 



