POLTSTICHUM ANGULARE. 



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more deeply serrate. Ilachis and stipes densely scaly. Sori 

 confined to the upper portion of the frond. The apex has 

 every appearance of being proliferous. Some of the pinnre arc 

 even trifidj the third being much smaller in size. In the plant 

 of Mr. Swynfcn Jervis, the fronds are seventeen inches in length, 

 ■width at base one inch^ in centre of frond, in widest part, two 

 inches and a quarter, (that is, at four inches from the apex,) 

 from which gradually tapering to an acuminate apex. The 

 pinnaj in the upper portion of the frond are not bifid, yet the 

 lower portion is so close a copy of Mr. Elworthy's plant, that 

 it must be considered at present, with every prospect of the 

 assumption being correct, that when the plant has had the growth, 

 of another year or two, it will assume the more extraordinary 

 characters that constitute tlie differences between this and the 

 original plant found by Mr. Elworthy. My thanks are due to 

 Mr. Swynfcn Jervis and to Mr. Elworthy for the fronds now- 

 described. The wood-cut illustration, although quite sufficient 

 as far as recognising the plant is concerned, is too small to do 

 justice to so beautiful a variety. 



Fig. 132. 



Laxum, Wollaston, (Falcatum, Stansfield, MSS.) (Fig. 

 132.) — Found at Littleham, in Devonshire, by the Eev. C. 

 Padley, of Bulwell Hall, to whom I am indebted for fronds. 

 This variety is normal, but having all its parts more remote 

 than usual. The plant from which the description has been 

 taken, was found near Burnley, in Lancashire. Length 

 seventeen inches. Piunoj alternate, lax, apex much pointed. 

 Pinnules lax, equal in size, except the superior basal one, 

 which is much larger, undivided, with a serrated edge, and 



