ATHYllIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 



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more confluent than the variety marinnm, which it somewhat 

 resembles. T/anceoL-xte in form, with tlic lower pinnfc small 

 and deflexed; the pinna; have a hroad base, and a blunt 

 rounded apex; pinnatifid almost to the rachis at the base, 

 above which more confluent, the pinnules being connected with 

 the rachis by a broad distinct wing. Pinnules overlapping; as 

 broad above as below, their apices rounded, and the margins 

 notched with well-marked acute teeth. Sori short, and confined 

 to the lowest veins in each segment. An illustration is not 

 needed. 



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Fig. 281. — Portion of Frond. 



Semidepauperatum, Clapham. (Fig. 281.) — An erect-growing 

 form, the apices of the fronds gracefully arching, the whole 

 forming a fine convolvulus-shaped plant. Fronds of the outline 

 of marinum, the fronds and pinnce making very long attenuated 

 apices, all of which, together with the pinnules, are semide- 

 pauperated, or deeply cleft into somewhat regular sinuses, 

 giving to the plant a very elegant, in addition to its extremely 

 graceful, appearance. It is truthfully constant, and profusely 

 fertile. Probably one of the prettiest of the long-striped 

 nonfrondose varieties. The plant is in possession of Mr. C. 

 Monkman, of Malton, Avho supplies the fronds for illustration. 



PoLYCLADOS-DissECTL'M, 3Ioore. — Found in Trentham Park, 

 Staffordshire, by Mr. Swynfcn Jervis, of Darlaston Hall, near 

 Stone. Fronds usually ramose; the stipites and rachides red 

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