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stout, only twelve inches in hMigtli, and seven inches in 

 breadth, broadly oval, and irregnlar in appearance. Synnnetrical 

 in outline. Pinnie crowded, not quite equal in lengtli, broad 

 to near the apex and then suddenly acuminate. Pinnidcs 

 rather distant, deeurrent, irregular in shape and size, mostly 

 ovate-oblong, blunt, ijnd cut into distant unequally-dentate, 

 lobes, separated by wide open sinuses. 





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Fig. 333.— Middle pinii;\;. 



DissiMiJ-E, Crossficld. (Fig. 333.) — A dwarf, slender Fern, 

 found at Arnsidc by Mr. Crossfield. Length of frond eight inches, 

 width one inch and three quarters. Pinnre opposite except near 

 the ajiex, the basal three pairs varying much in size and form, 

 beyond which the outline is regular. Fronds pinnate, the 

 lobes of the pinnae cut quite to the costa and finely dentate, their 

 apices rounded. I am indebted to Mr. Monkman, of Malton, 

 for a frond. 







Fig. S.S-t.-Pinna. 



Elongatum, Wolhiston. (Fig. 334.) — An interesting, large, 

 slender Fern, found in l'S()l, in Brigsteur 'Wood, by Mr. 



