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very leafy, vivid green, wide, and dentate along tlieir edges, 

 their apices flat and dentate. My tlianks arc due to INIr, 

 Joseph AV^ood for the illustration. 



Abortivum, Lowe. — A singular abortive variety, found at 

 Nettlccombe by Mr. Elworthy. Length ten inches, the basal 

 five inches without pinna?, indeed five pairs of pinna? arc 

 all that the frond contains. Some of the pinna) broad and 

 triangular, others long and thin, or variously mis-shapen. 

 Pinnules much laciniatcd or depau^Jerated, the dentation very 

 irregular. I am indebted to Mr. Elworthy for fronds. An 

 illustration is unnecessary. 



Fig. 316.— Pinnaj. 



CoNTORTUM, Stansfield. (Fig. 31G.) — Raised from spores by 

 Mr. Stansfield, of Vale Nursery, Todmorden, and proved quite 

 constant. A slender form thirteen or fourteen inches in length, 

 the fronds being three inches and a half wide. Pinnro, and 

 more especially the pinnules, much contorted or twisted 

 back. Pinnules very various in form and size, some absent. 

 My thanks are due to Messrs. Stansfield for fronds. 



BuLLERi^, Moore. — Found in 1858, in the neighbourhood 

 of TreguUow, Cornwall, by Mrs. Hornby Buller, to whom 

 Mr. Moore has dedicated it. An elegant crested form, peculiar 

 as regards the long narrow teeth of its small pinnules, and 

 the obtuse dilated sharp-toothed tufts which terminate the fronds 

 and pinnse. Length of froiul twelve inches, breadth two inches. 

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