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FOLYSTICHUM ANGULARE. 



the primary and secondary racliidcs flexuose. PinricE lanceolate, 

 flexuose. Pinnules decomposite, pinnatifid, and aristate. Primary 

 pinnules pinnate. The whole plant is very striking in character. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Sclater for fronds. 



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Fig. 111. — A. Apex. 



13. Middle pinna. 



Vestitum, Loive. (Fig. 111.) — Found in North Devonshire, 

 by the Rev. Charles Padley, of Bulwell Hall, Nottinghamshire. 

 A decompound Fern, and very distinct in several particulars. 

 Length of frond twenty-four inches, width seven inches in the 

 widest part, being widest in the centre of the frond, and nar- 

 rowest at the base, the basal pinna; not four inches across, whilst 

 the pair immediately below the ultimate pinna at the apex are 

 four inches and a half across. Pinn?e distant below, (being one 

 inch and a half apart,) and approximate above; about equal in 

 width except at the apex; at the base of the ultimate pinna 

 the frond is viviparous on the stem. Pinnules equal in size 



