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pale brown, the upper lanceolate intermixed with hair-like ones ; 

 these two last commonly having a darker shade in the centre towards 

 the base ; all of them more or less persistent. Lamina firm, bright 

 green, without glands, elliptical-strapshaped or strapshaped-oblong, 

 rather abruptly acuminate and rather abrupt at the base, bipinnate ; 

 lowest pair of pinnse triangular-strapshaped, shorter than the suc- 

 ceeding pair, but not very much so, all of them shortly stalked > 

 pinnate, flat ; pinnules oblong or oblong-elliptical, or the basal ones 

 triangular-lanceolate, not falcate, not decurrent on either side of the 

 base, subobtuse or subacute, the basal ones pinnatipartite, with 

 the lobes serrate at the apex, the others inciso-serrate ; serratures 

 very sharp, but not spinous-pointed. Ultimate veins running from 

 the midrib to just within the margins of the lobes or ultimate seg- 

 ments of the pinnules, once forked or simple, with each posterior 

 venule running into a tooth. Sori occupying the whole of the frond? 

 attached to the back of the anterior venule of the ultimate lobes, 

 or on the largest lobes to two or three of the lowest ultimate venules 

 of the lobe, forming a line on each side of the main vein of the 

 pinnules, much nearer to it than to the margin of the pinnules, 

 extending nearly to the apex of the pinnules. Indusium rather 

 firm, persistent, roundish-reniform, erose on the margins, without 

 glands. Spores bluntly tuberculated. No sterile fronds dissimilar 

 to the fertile ones. 



Windermere, Westmoreland ; first observed by Mr. Isaac Huddart 

 growing in company with L. Filix-mas, vars. incisa and abbreviates, 

 L. spinulosa, and L. dilatata, and about 5 miles from limestone rocks, 

 where L. rigida is abundant. (Mr. Frederick Clowes in Phyt. 1860, 

 p. 227.) 



England. Perennial. Autumn. 



Frond resembling in outline that of L. Filix-mas, var. genuina, but 

 with a longer stipes, 3 to 4 feet high, of which the stipes is 9 inches 

 to 1 foot long. Pinnse pointing upwards at an acute angle, longest 

 in the middle of the frond, the longest 5 or 6 inches long ; pinnules 

 in the middle of the frond ^ to 1 inch long. 



L. remota differs from L. Filix-mas in its longer stipes and more 

 compound fronds. The pinnules are not contiguous and are attached 

 by a narrow base to the partial rachis ; they are nearly equally cut 

 in on both the anterior and posterior sides, so that the basal ones are 

 almost stalked, with a tendency to be broadest near the middle or 

 a little below it, and are so deeply pinnatipartite that the frond be- 

 comes almost tripinnate. The partial rachis is winged, with a narrow 



