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pinnae and pinnules are in pairs, set on at about right 

 angles to each other, so as with the opposite pairs to form 

 crosses, while the tips of fronds and pinnae bear beautifully 

 redivided tassels. Found in Scotland. 



Fig. 3. — A. f.f. splendens. A crested (almost plumose) 

 form, wdth crested pinnules. Raised. 



Fig. 4. — A. f.f. Kalothrix. The most delicately divided 

 of all Lady Ferns, divisions like beautiful hair, whence the 

 name, and wdth a silky lucent surface. Requires shady 

 position and protection to show full beauty. A gem. 



Figs. 5, 6, 11 and 19. — Various forms of A. ff. Frizellics 

 shewn in Fig. 6, -viz. as numbered (5) ramosissimnm, (11} 

 cvistaUinit (19) ramosnm (crest only), representing certainly 

 one of the most striking sections of this versatile species, 

 but rather apt to revert partially in many of its forms, 

 w^hich are probably crosses. 



Fig. 8. — A. ff. plnmosum Horsfall. Found in Yorkshire ; 

 the most delicately made of the wild finds of phimosnm. 



Fig. 9. — A. f.f. pnlchervimuni. Very prettily cut 

 divisions, finely pointed and saw-toothed ; found several 

 times in slightly varied forms. 



Fig. 12. — A. f.f. Clarissima. A pinna only of that 

 wonderful fern, on which the phenomenon of " apospory " 

 or prothalli, instead of spore-heaps, was first discovered. 

 Almost as finely cut as Kalothrix, but large and robust. 



Fig. 13. — A. f.f. acrocladon. Found in Yorkshire. 

 Fronds so repeatedly divided as to transform the whole 

 plant into a huge almost moss-like mass. Some of its 

 progeny, nncoglomevatujii to wit, go much farther, and 

 resemble a mass of SclagineUa apoda on finer-cut lines. 



Fig. 15. — A. f.f. glomeratum. One of the finest covymhosc 

 crested varieties, with huge bunch crests at all terrriinals. 



Fig. 18. — A.f.f. Vernoniae cristatuin. A beautiful variant 

 of Vernoniae, with peculiarly crisped and wavy divisions, 

 rendering it very distinct. 



As will be seen, the group embraces most of the wonder- 

 ful types assumed by this protean species, and would form 

 a very fine nucleus for a budding collection. C. T. D. 



