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rOLYPODTUM YULOARE. 



Fig. 2G. 



Multiforme. (Fig. 26.) — First discovered by Mr. F. Clowes, 

 at Windermere, then by Mr. Henry Perry, in County Cork, 

 Ireland, and in 1859 in Wass Woods, near Coxwold, Yorkshire, 

 by Mr. C. Monkman, of Malton, and still later by Mr. J. Cross- 

 field, of Arnsidc, in that neighbourhood. A very large-growing 

 remarkable variety, stout in habit, and partaking freely of the 

 characters of Semilacerum, Truncatum, and Serratum, and 

 altogether extremely variable both in size and form. Fronds 

 broad, divided and lobed somewhat like the variety Semilacerum, 

 but differing from that variety in being irregular, and in 

 having a horn-like projection of the midrib of many of the 

 abruptly-ending side divisions. Long stalked. Occasionally 

 almost entire. Some of the fronds are very broad, with more 

 or less tapering narrowish lobes; other fronds similar, with 

 lobes here and there shortened abruptly; others having only 

 two or three pairs of divisions, (the lower ones,) and these 

 profoundly crenate or serrate, — such fronds appearing as though 

 the upper part had been suddenly stopped in growth, or 

 broken out. * A rare Fern. 



