104 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Yar. a. genuina. 



Plate 1866. 



Babenh. Crypt. Vase. Europ. Exsicc. No. 32. 



C. alpina, Link ; Hook. fil. Stud. Fl. ed. ii. p. 495. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil. ed. ii. p. 



103. Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 588. Gren. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. II. 



p. 634. 

 C. regia, Brest; Moore, Nat. Print. Brit. Ferns, 8vo. ed. Vol. II. p. 269. Koch, 



Syn. Fl. Germ, et Helv. ed. ii. p. 980. 

 Cyathea regia, Forst. Sm. Eng. Fl. Vol. IV. p. 302, in part. 

 C. incisa. Sm. Engl. Bot. ed. i. No. 163. 

 C. fragilis, var. alpina, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vii. p. 450. 

 Aspidium alpinum, Swartz, Syn. Fil. p. 60. 

 Polypodium alpinum, Wulfen. Jacq. Collect. Vol. II. p. 171. 

 Polypodium regium, Linn. ? Sp. Plant. No. 1553. 



Frond subquadripinnate or tripinnate; pinnules attached by a 

 slender base, pinnatipartite or bipinnatipartite ; ultimate segments 

 oblong and merely deeply notched, or oblanceolate and cut into oblong 

 deeply-notched smaller segments. Ultimate veins almost all running 

 into the notches of the segments. 



Var. ft. Dickieana. Milde. 



Plate 1867. 

 Milde, Fil. Europ. p. 151. 

 C. Dickieana, B. Sim, Gard. Journ. 1848, p. 308. Neivm. Phyt. 1851, App. XXVI. ; and 



Hist. Brit. Ferns, ed. iii. p. 94. 

 C. dentata (part), Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. iii. p. 412 ; and ed. vi. p. 438. 

 C. fragilis, var. Dickieana, Moore, Handbk. Brit. Ferns, ed. i. p. 81 ; ed. iii. p. 234 ; and 



Nat. Print. Brit. Ferns, 8vo. ed. Vol. II. p. 256. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. vii. p. 



450. Hook. fil. Stud. Fl. ed. ii. p. 494. 



Frond subbipinnate ; pinnules mostly attached by a broad base 

 (except those next the rachis), inciso-crenate or pinnatifid ; ultimate 

 segments roundish, indistinctly notched or subentire. Ultimate veins 

 running into the notches when these are present, or into the middle 

 of the crenatures when these are not notched. 



On rocks and walls, very rare. Var. a. Teesdale, Durham. Mr. 

 Backhouse, 1872. Mr. Moore has received authentic specimens "said 

 to have been gathered in Derbyshire and in Yorkshire, but without 

 more particular habitats assigned," from Mr. H. Shepherd ; but he " has 

 not seen a native mountain specimen of 0. regia, unless it be one from 

 Saddleback in Cumberland, gathered many years since by Mr. S. O. 

 Grey." (' Nat. Print. Brit. Ferns,' 8vo ed. Yol. II. p. 271.) It used 

 to grow on a garden wall at Low Leyton in Essex, and I believe it 



