ATIIYRIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 



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Mills Lodge, Edinburgli. Length of frond forty inches, breadth 

 ten inches. Pinnre five to six inches long, and from an inch 

 and a quarter to an inch and a half Avide. Pinnules some 

 three quarters of an inch long, and a quarter of an inch wide. 

 Pinna) alternate, linear-ohlong or linear-lanceolate, with an 

 acuminate caudate apex. Pinnules long, blunt-pointed, entire, 

 and fringed on the sides with short teeth, and divided to the 

 rachides. Sori diminutive. The illustration is from INIr. P. 

 Neill Fraser. 



Fig. 34G— Middle of Frond. 



Frizelli.T5, Bain. (Fig. 34G.) — A distinct and beautiful 

 variety, l^ength of frond fourteen inches, width equal throughout, 

 namely, half an inch. Pinnas branching immediately on the 

 rachis, and producing a short rounded or a solid, leafy, semi- 

 circular, flabellate-formed pinna, fimbriated with teeth on the 

 edge. Opposite below, alternate above, and the frond ending 

 in a rather larger terminal similar pinna; occasionally pinnae 

 are produced not unlike those of Fieldice. My thanks are 

 due to Mr. E. Cooling, of Derby, and to the Rev. C. Padley, 

 of Bulwell Hall, for plants, and to Mr. Ivcry, of Dorking, and 

 to Messrs. Stanstield, of Todmorden, for fronds. 



