114 



POLYSTICHUM ANGULARE. 



thin and papery. Fronds have been received from Mr. G. B. 

 Wollaston, of Chiselhurst, and from Mr. Swynfen Jervis, of 

 Darlaston Hall. 



Fig. 86. 



PoLYDACTYLUM, Moore. CFig. 86.^ — Found in Tipperary in 

 1857, and introduced into public notice by Mr. R. Sim, of 

 Foot's Cray. An exceedingly elegant and constant variety, 

 having slender narrow lance-shaped fronds. The pinnae brief and 

 somewhat irregular, and the pinnules here and there abortive 

 or depauperated, yet not to an extent to interfere with the 

 general outline of the frond. The pinnules are small, with a 

 very distinct stalk and auricle. The distinctive feature of this 

 form is the branching of the pinnse, which become ramose at 

 about half their length, the branches of which are divergent, 

 but plane, and formed of pinnules that are more or less con- 

 fluent. It is analogous to the many -fingered variety of Athyriuni 

 jiUx-fcemina. Length from eight to twelve inches. My thanks 

 are due to INIr. Sim, of Foot's Cray, for fronds. 



