ATHYRIUM riLIX-FCEMINA, 



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village, where hundreds of persons must have passed it daily, 

 at least in the summer-time, in going to or returning from 

 Ambleside. The plant, when found by Mr. Monkman, was 

 double crowned, and was divided with ]Mr. Clowes, the variety 

 yet remaining exclusively in possession of these growers. Mr. 

 Monkman sends the frond for illustration. 



Fig. 284. 



CoNFLUENS, Moore. (Fig. 284.) — Height twelve inches. 

 Habit erect. Rigid. Sub-bipinnate, form narrow-lanceolate. 

 Pinnae distant and irregular in outline. Basal anterior pinnules 

 stipitate, ovate, profoundly pinnatifid, segments having a few 

 coarse sharp teeth, the remaining pinnules similar but smaller. 

 Sori irregular. Found by Mr. A. Tait, of Edinburgh, in 1853, 

 in the seam of a perpendicular rock on the pine-covered 

 mountains near Dunkcld. For plants and fronds I am indebted 

 to Mr. Swynfen Jervis, of Darleston Hall; Mr. C. Elworthy, 

 of Nettlecombe; Mr. E. Cooling, of Derby; and Mr. Kennedy, 

 of Covent Garden. 



Fig. 285. 



SuBDEPAUPERATUM, Clowes. (Fig. 285.) — A large-growing 

 variety, apparently of the decompositum type, found by Mr. 

 F. Clowes, at Windermere. Its peculiarity consists in the 

 pinnte being occasionally denuded of their pinnules, of which 

 only the midribs perhaps are represented; and in some cases 



