xii Edward Newman 



introduced as being likely to occur in Scotland, and also to show that 

 the genus Athyrium is not restiicted to the lanceolate form of frond). 



** Frond lanceolate. 



Athyrium ovatum. 



1795. Polypodium dentatum, Hoffm. Deutsch. Flor. ii. 6. 

 1800. Athyrium ovatum, Roth, Fl. Germ. iii. 64 ; Newm. 



F. 420, Plnjtol. iv. 368. 

 Athyrium Filix-femina, var. dentatum, Newm. F. 203, ad 



partem. 

 Asplenium Filix-foemina, var. latifolium, Hook, and Am. 



674 ; Bab. 413 ; Houlston and Moore, Gard. Mag. of 



Bot. iii. 262. 

 Frond lax, flaccid, dark green, lanceolate, pinnate ; pin- 

 nae scarcely ascending, approximate, flattened, pinnate ; 

 pinnules ovate, distinctly stalked, crowded, overlapping, 

 lobed at the base, toothed at the apex; clusters of capsules 

 elongate as in Asplenium, in a series on each side of the 

 pinnule but distant from it. A large plant, two to three 

 feet high. 



Kare ; found in the neighbourhood of Keswick by Miss 

 Beever and Miss Wright. 



Ohs. — The prior name of dentatum is discarded on account of its 

 identity with another Polypodium dentatum. 



Athyrium molle. 



Poljqjodium molle, Schreher, Spic. Flor. Lips. 70 ; Ehrh. 



Crypt. 9 ; Hoffm. Deutsch. Flor. ii. 6. 

 Athyrium molle. Roth, Flor. Germ. iii. 61 ; Newm. N. A. 



26. 

 Athyrium Filix-femina, var. molle, Newm. F. 242. 

 Athyrium Filix-femina, y. Bab. 413. 



Frond lax, flaccid, bright green, broadly lanceolate, pin- 

 nate ; pinnae scarcely ascending, approximate, flattened, 

 pinnate, subpinnate, orpinnatifid; pinnules blunt, approx- 

 imate, connected by the wing of the midrib ; clusters of 

 capsules in a series on each side of the midrib of the pin- 

 nule, and very near it. Generally a small plant, twelve to 



