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ATHYRIUM FILIX-FQiMlNA. 



the midrib, not common to all fronds) sometimes much crowded 

 upon the rachis, indeed decidedly imbricate. The pinnules 

 are thickly set upon the secondary rachides, and are both 

 confluent and imbricate, but scarcely depauperate, although 

 sometimes furcate. The variety is scarcely bipinnate, but the 

 pinnules are deeply incised, or erose, giving to the plant a 

 distinctly toothed character, which, doubtless, suggested Mr. 

 Moore's name. This plant is very rare, and somewhat strange 

 to say, although so decided a sport has not hitherto been 

 found to reproduce itself (in the discoverer's fernery at least) 

 from the spores. The variety was found by Mrs. C. Monkman, 

 of Malton, in the summer of 1861, in crossing the mountains 

 from E Her ay to the Troutbeck Valley, in the Windermere 

 district, and it has rather improved than otherwise in culti- 

 vation. From the reason given above this variety has only 

 been "multiplied by division," and plants are only held by 

 Mr. Monkman, Mr. Clowes, Mr. Clapham, and Messrs. Stansfield. 

 The illustration is from the original plant found by Mrs. 

 Monkman. 



Fig. 278. 



Latifolium, Bahimjton. (Fig. 278.) — A very handsome 

 vio'orous-growing variety, found near Keswick, Cumberland, by 

 Miss Wright. Although only one or two plants were discovered, 

 owing to its being reproduced by spores, it has now become 

 widely spread in our Ferneries. A peculiar-looking variety, 

 it is remarkable for the irregular outline of the pinnae, for the 

 peculiar position of the sori; and for the pinnules being densely 

 crowded together, very various in size, and uneven in toothing. 

 Length of frond upwards of three feet; colour dark green. 

 Bipinnate, oblong-lanceolate, and flaccid. Eachis and stipes 

 strong and thick, and of about the usual length. Finnai brief. 



