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enormous stride made, we reproduce an ink-print of a pinna 

 of this variety (P. ang. plumosiim ramuiossissimum R, Bolton), 

 as compared with a normal pinna. "'^ The result of this 

 expansion, multiplication, and repeated ramifications of 

 the divisions is an overlapping and piling up of frondage, 

 which transforms the normal and comparatively simple 

 flat frond into a dense and deep triangular mossy mass of 

 extreme beauty. Forms akin to this have been raised by 

 H. Stansfield, of Sale, but none have gone nearly so far in 

 their development as this, while the apparent exotic rivals 

 in the mossy way — the wonderful N ephvolepis exaltata Mav- 

 shallii compacta and Willmottae — are structurally on quite 

 different lines, owing their beauty, as they do, entirely to 

 repeated dissection minus ramification. 



To the finer forms of both P. angnlave and P. aadeatuni 

 we have so often referred in these pages, and so many of 

 them figure nowadays in the trade catalogues of Messrs. 

 H. B. May and Sons, H. Stansfield, and others, that we 

 can only suggest a reference thereto by those who would 

 profit practically by our above remarks. 



- See page i6i. Chas. T. Druery, V.M.H., F.L.S. 



NEW FERNS [continued). 

 Lastrea f. m. Grandiceps Walton. 



We have received a frond of this fine fern found by 

 Mr. J. W. Walton on Grinton Moor, Reeth, Yorkshire. 

 It reminds us strongly of the Carnforth grandiceps (Sim.), so 

 widely distributed by reason of its robust and branching 

 habit. 



Asp. trich. ramosum. 



Mr. W. E. Farrer of Oxford sends a photo of a variety 

 of asp. t. ramosum found by him near Carnforth, each 

 frond branching at the top into four or five divisions. 



