194 NOTE ON A RARE BRITISH FERN. [Suss, uxx. 
“(4) The glandular hairy investiture of the indusium 
which is conspicuous in the fresh plant. 
“This evergreen species has in addition a short creeping 
rhizome, vigorous fronds of narrowish lanceolate outline, 
and rather distant pinnules, of which the larger are often 
nearly or quite again pinnate and the lobes separate. 
The spores are irregularly roundish oblong and muricate.” 
This plant differs in one or two particulars :—Its stipes is 
brittle like the type: its fronds are not narrowish lanceolate 
in outline, neither are the lobes separate nor the pinnules 
distant. 
You will see this plant has already made some progress 
with its new season’s fronds. The plants of the type in my 
possession have not yet begun to move. 
Mr. Druery has expressed a wish to have the variety tried 
in the open through the winter. For this purpose I have 
divided the plant, and next winter we shall see the result. 
