POLYSTICHTM AXGITARE. 



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enlarged, so as to form on each an abrupt terminal tuft or 

 head. The apex of the frond attenuated, and similarly affected. 

 Stipes and rachis covered with reddish scales. The lower 

 pinnaj normal, and having blunt small pinnules. A handsome 

 form has been found within the last few days, near Lympstone, 

 by Mr. E.. J. Gray, of Alphington, near Exeter. Its remarkable 

 character extends through the whole frond; the pinnaj are 

 short, somewhat distant, and opposite; the pinnules distinctly 

 stalked, three or four pairs with an ultimate one; the superior 

 basal pinnules somewhat rotund, the others cup-shaped; the 

 ultimate one very large, dentate, very spiny, somewhat circular, 

 and expanded to such dimension as to be wider than any 

 other portion of the pinna; the cup-shaped pinnules are also 

 spiny. I have preferred retaining this form with Congestum 

 at present, giving it the provisional name of Cupid if or me, on 

 account of the little cup-like pinnules. I am indebted to the 

 Eev. Charles Padley, of Bulwell Hall, Nottinghamshire, for 

 the original form, and to Mr. R. J. Gray, of Alphington, near 

 Exeter, for Cupuliforme, (Fig. 95.) Of the former I have 

 figured the basal portion and apex of the frond, and of the 

 latter the basal portion. A form, differing slightly from Con- 

 gestum, has also been found at Littleham, Devonshire, by the 

 Kev. Charles Padley. 



Fis. 96. 



MuLTiLOBUM, Wollaston. (Fig. 96.) — A pretty Fern. Length 

 of frond from eighteen inches to twenty-four inches. Pinnae 

 alternate, long, narrow, but not much drawn out at their apices, 

 towards the centre of the frond the pinnre much broader. 

 Pinnules deeply divided, the lobes being very conspicuous. 



