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POLYSTICHUM ACULEATUM. 



colour ricli green. The piniife have pinnules on their lower 

 half, and are confluent towards the apex, which is dilated and 

 crested. Below the branching apex they are undivided, 

 resembling an elongate auricled pinnule with a dilated apex. 

 The apex becomes three-branched, these branches again 

 branching, and their branches also branching, and forming a 

 wide corymbiferous head three times the width of the frond. 

 My thanks are due to Mrs. Thompson, and also to her brother, 

 the Rev. Charles Padlev, for fronds. 



Fig. ICO.— Apex. 



FuiiCATUM, Lowe. (Fig. 160.) — Found in Devonshire, by 

 the llev. F. Mules, of Marwood. A large-growing variety of 

 the normal form, having a forked apex. I am indebted to 

 Mr. Mules for fronds. Length of frond two feet six inches. 



