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rOl.YSTIClIUM ANGULARE. 



it is hiserrate. It has been found in Jersey by Mr. Jackson, 

 and at Brentford by Mr. S. F. Gray. Fronds have been for- 

 warded to me both from Mr. Sim, of Foot's Cray Nursery, 

 Kent, and Mr. Stansfield, of Todmorden. 



Fig. 46. 



Trtpinxatum, Moore. (Plate XIV.) — A most lovely variety, 

 found accidentally in Cornwall, and brought into notice by 

 myself, having been received as a seedling in a batch of the 

 ordinary form from Mr. H. T. Millett, of Penzance. It ^is 

 described in Mr. Moore's "Nature Printed Ferns," and figured 

 in Table xiii, b, also in his "Handbook of British Ferns," 

 page 90, and a coloured illustration given in my "Natural 

 History of British and Exotic Ferns," (under the name of 

 Aspidium angulare, var. tripinnatum,) plate XXIV, vol. vi, 

 page 70. Although grown in my Fernery for the last ten 

 years, it has never increased in size, and this plant I believe 

 is the only one in existence. In a growing state there is one 

 peculiarity, namely, the pinnse lie nearly horizontally one above 

 another, like so many steps of a ladder; and, being crowded 

 together, when a frond is pressed flat for preservation as a 

 dried specimen, the pinnse overlap each other. It is exceedingly 

 chaffy beneath, and a most distinct variety. 



There is a variety in Messrs. Stansfield's collection bearing 

 the same name, but very distinct from this form, and not 

 nearly so handsome. The true form is stout and rigid, having 



