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ATHYIUUM FILIX-ICEMINA. 



Symmetrical below, and divided at the apex into a corymbose 

 tuft of branchlets as broad as the frond itself. Pinnae from 

 seven eighths of an inch to one inch and a quarter in length, 

 the basal ones deflexed, they are broadest at the base, and 

 narrow gradually towards the apex. The tassel is dilate and 

 many-branched, the divisions leafy at the sides, and having 

 blunt dilated apices, which are sharply and conspicuously 

 dentate. An illustration is not necessary. 



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Fig. 317.— Shewing form of frond. 



Fig. 318.— Pinnas. 



Crispum, 3Ioore. (Figs. 317 and 318.) — This slender, 

 elegant, dwarf plant was originally found in Ireland, on Orah, 

 a hill in County Antrim; subsequently in Corymulzie Lynn, 

 Brajmar, Scotland, by Sir W. C. Trevelyan, and at Todmorden, 

 Lancashire, by Mr. J. Huddert. Crisjmt/i more closely resembles 

 a tuft of fine curled jjarsley than a Fern. Length of frond 

 from six to twelve inches. The fronds branch in every possible 

 manner, the rachis being irregularly divided, and each apex 

 densely tufted in close obtuse tassels. Both the ijinnte and 

 pinnules are very unsymmetrically divided, and the ijinnse are 

 often wanting for a long portion of the stipes. I am indebted 

 to Mr. Josej^h Sidebotham, of Manchester, to Mr. J. Pearson, 

 of Chilwell, and to Mr. C. Monkman, of Malton, for plants. 



