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are spreading at their tips, and incised. Apex more or less 

 tufted. Found at Bromsgrove, in. Worcestershire, and made 

 known to the public by INIr. B. Maund. The fronds are liable 

 to vary considerably, sometimes being more tasseled, occasionally 

 corymbosely-tasseled; sometimes the pinnoe scarcely divided, at 

 others the pinnae and pinnules much lacerated. Length of 

 frond upwards of tv/o feet. My thanks are due to Messrs. 

 Stansfield, Vale Nursery, Todmorden, for fronds. 



Fig. 188. 



BoLLANDi.^, Moore. (Fig. 188.) — Found in a hedgerow 

 at Ashhurst Park, Tunbridge Wells, in 1857, by Mrs. Bolland. 

 Very distinct, from the great breadth of the fronds, the winged 

 rachides, and large wavy pinnules. Length of frond eighteen 

 inches, ovate-lanceolate, bii^innate to the base of the pinnje, 

 all the other pinnules connected by the wings of the rachides, 

 membranaceous. Pinnae broad, oblong, and stalked, not acumi- 

 nate, but suddenly narrowed at the apex. Pinnules large, 

 elongate-oblong, wavy, blunt, profoundly lobcd, which are 

 sparingly serrate, pointing forwards, the base narrowing and 

 becoming decurrent with the membrane which borders the 

 secondary rachides. This variety has, when freshly gathered, 

 the strong mignionette-like scent of the varieties ahhreviata and 

 pumila. Mr. Moore remarks that this is probably owing to 

 the numerous minute glands, the fronds appearing to be 

 glandular-punctate. To JNIrs. Bolland 1 am indebted for fronds. 



Abhreviata-cristata, Cloiocs. (PLate XXX.) — This new 

 multifid variety of the Male Fern, although not so dwarf as 

 the Aspidium pumilum, (figure 15, vol. vi. of my "Natural 

 History of British and Exotic Ferns,") is nevertheless of 

 dwarf compact habit, and an interesting addition to our hardy 



