rOLYPODIUM VULGARE. *< 



Ramosum, Moore. (Fig. 29.) — A more developed form of 

 Bifidum, frequently branched in the rachis, and again divided. 

 It is furnished with bifid or multifid lobes; varied in its form 

 and manner of branching, the lobes very dissimilar, and the 

 margin of the lobes largely and profoundly dentate below, and 

 minutely so on their upper half. Rare. 



Fig. 29. 



Semilacerum, Link, dioore, (Hibernicum, Moore.) (Plate 

 YIII.) — The Irish Polypody, or (Dargle Fern, as it is some- 

 times called,) has been found in Ireland, at Killarney, and by 

 the Dargle, AVicklow, where the fronds are well marked. Also 

 in Devonshire, Norfolk, (Postwich,) Kent, Monmouth, and 

 Caernarvonshire; growing in the calcareous districts of England, 

 AVales, and Ireland. It has been gathered at Xettlecombe, 

 by Mr. Elworthy; at Chepstow Castle, by Mr. R. Heward; 

 at Antrim, by Mr. Stansfield; Ulverstone, by Miss E. Hodgson; 

 in the neighbourhood of Arnside and Morecombe Bay, by 

 Mr. C. Monkman; Saltwood Castle, Kent, by Mr. Gray; ruins 

 of Berry Pomroy Castle, Devon, and Tintem Abbey, by Mr. 



