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ATHYRIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 



and produce a large, compact, mucli-divided tassel. The 

 piiina3 below the tassel very brief, but more or less normal. 

 Racliis red. My thanks are due to Messrs. Stansfield, of 

 Todmorden, for fronds. 







Fig. 320.— Frond. 



Crtspum-coronatum, Loice. (Fig. 320.) — Mr. Monkman, of 

 Malton, has sent me the present new Fern, which differs 

 from the crispum in not having lax wide-spread branches, 

 and in the corymbiferous head forming a com^^act somewhat 

 circular crown. Length of frond nine inches, width three 

 inches and a half; in crispum the width is six or seven 

 inches. The pinnules crowded and overlapj)ing each other. 



DiFFissuM-GRACiLE, Moove. — Found at the Sulphur Wells, 

 Harrogate, by Mr. Clapham, of Scarborough, resembling 

 diffissum, but having a more slender form. An illustration is 

 needless. 



