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POLYPODTUM VULGAHE. 



OvATUM, Moore. — Found at Ballavauglian, in the west of 

 Ireland, by Dr. Allcliin, Rare. The frond broad, ovate, and 

 coriaceous, the margin obscurely-dentate or crenulate. The 

 lowest lobes horizontal. Allied to Denticulatum. 



• Fig. 28. 



PuLCHERRiMUM, Stansfielcl , 3IS. (Fig. 28.) — This Fern does 

 not belie its name, being most beautiful. It was gathered near 

 Milnthorpe, in the summer of 1861, by Mr. Barnes, and is now 

 in the possession of Messrs. Stansfield, of the Vale Gardens, 

 Todmorden. The fronds are from eight inches to a foot in 

 length, and from four to eight inches in breadth. Ovate-oblong 

 in form, bipinnatifid in the lower and middle portions of the 

 frond, and deeply serrated in the upper portion. Perhaps the 

 most beautiful of all the British Polypodiums, differing from 

 Camhricum, in being much thicker in texture, in all the lobes 

 and lobules being blunt and rounded, (which gives a peculiar 

 softness and smoothness of outline to the fronds,) and in 

 being abundantly soriferous. 



