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portion." Frond bipinnate. The apices of the pinnae bifid 

 or ramose, but not crispy. Pinnules oblong, close-set, 

 profoundly, conspicuously, and sharply serrate. A singular 

 variety. Mr. Stansfield is afraid that it is now dead. 



Fig. 226. — Apex of frond (reduced.) Pinnae (natural size.) 



LowEi^, Lowe. (Fig. 226.) — Raised from spores in Mrs. E. 

 J. Lowe's fernery. A somewhat dwarf-fronded variety, the 

 pinnules wide at the base of each pinna, and opposite, 

 narrowing to very minute pointed lobes near the apex, and 

 then widening out into a large crested tuft. The frond also 

 branching and tufted at the apex. On one side the frond, 

 from its centre to the apex, are either almost wanting or 

 very brief, narrow, and branching pinnae or pinnules. Length 

 of frond twelve inches, of which the basal inch and a half 

 is naked. Stipes and rachis copiously hirsute. 



