ATHYUIUM Fn,lX-F(KMINA. 



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of frond nine inchcS; width five inches. Stipes very short. 

 Singularly leafy and plumose. Pinnrc opposite below and 

 alternate above, equal in length, except at the ramose apex, and 

 therefore making the frond equal in width near the apex and 

 base. Pinnules long, narrow, and leafy, and very regular in 

 outline. Dentation also very regular. The apices of the pinnre 

 multifid, and the apex of the frond branching and multifid. 

 Vivid ureen in colour, and delicate in substance. The illustration 

 is from Mr. Edelsten's frond. 



FiS. 294, 



MuLTiFiDUM-TENUE, Lowe. (Fig. 294.) — A thin, very slender, 

 bending-fronded form, found in the Channel Islands by Mr. J. 

 James, of Vauvert. Fronds fourteen inches in length, and five 

 inches and a half in Avidth in the widest part. The pinna3 and 

 pinnules closely resemble the normal form of Lastrea Jilix-mas, 

 except in substance, which is as thin as tissue-paper. Apex 

 of frond acuminate. Pinnules leafy and simply dentate. The 

 apices of the pinnae and of the fronds themselves furcate, the 

 furcations being minutely multifid. I am indebted to Mr. James, 

 of Vauvert, for fronds. 





Fig. 2!)j. 



Multifidum-Mapplebeckti, Loioe. (Fig. 295.) — A very 



