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ATHYRIUM FTLIX-FCEMINA. 



have a ragged and semi-depauperated appearance. No illus- 

 tration is necessary. 





Fig. 292— Pinna. 



MuLTiFiDUM-NANTJM, Moore. (Fig. 292.) — A dwarf, more 

 lax, and narrower-pinnuled variety than multiJidum-Eclelstenn. 

 Length of frond ten inches and a half, width four inches. 

 Equal in width, except for one inch and a half below the 

 branching apex, where it suddenly narrows to an inch in width, 

 and then dilates to a multifid apex of one inch and a half in 

 width. Pinnpe flexuose, broad at the base, and very narrow 

 near the multifid apices. Pinnules conspicuously fringed with 

 minute hair-like teeth. Stipes and rachis somewhat purple. 

 The multifid apices long, narrow, and lax. The illustration 

 was sent by Messrs. Stansfield, of Todmorden. 



MuLTiFiDUM-MiNus, 3Ioore. — Found at Ilfracombe, Devon- 

 shire, by Mr. C. Jackson. A dwarf variety, not exceeding 

 eight inches in length, being multifid at the apex of the 

 fronds, and having a pencil-like tuft at the caudately-attenuated 

 apices of the pinnae. An illustration is unnecessary. 





Fiff. 293. 



Multifidum-Ed^lstenit, Loice. (Fig. ^'^o.) — A dwarf broad- 

 fronded variety of multifidum, raised from spores by Mr. 

 Edelsten, of The Woodlands, Mosely, near Birmingham. Length 



