ATHYRIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 



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ascending and curving, widest at tlie base, and terminating in 

 a large close-set heap of pinnules and lobes, forming a compact, 

 much-multifid crown. In some fronds the pinnre arc shorter, 

 large-tasscled, and the tassels ovcrwrapping each otlicr. Near 

 the apex of the frond the rachis becomes Hat and dilated, and 

 this also applies to some of the rachides. My thanks are due 

 to Mr. Ivery, of Dorking, for fronds. 



Fig. 353.— Apex. 



Granti^e, Moore. (Fig. 353.) — A dwarf Fern. Fronds nine 

 inches long, and four inches wide, pinnato-pinnatifid. Pinnae 

 crowded, the pinnules broad and somewhat imbricate occa- 

 sionally. The broadest pinnae two inches and a half in 

 length and acuminate, pinnules broad and blunt at the apex, 

 where minutely and simply dentate. A variety almost identical 

 was shewn to me some years ago by Mrs. Riley, of Papplewick, 

 Nottinghamshire, and last year I found a similar plant at Dale 

 Abbey. A form is also to be found near Sweden Bridge, 

 Ambleside, which may be referred to this variety, except as 

 regards the fact that with Grantice the margins of the leaflets 

 are undulated, so as to produce a prettily crimped appearance. 

 My thanks are due to Mr. P. Neill Fraser, of Cannon Mills, 

 Edinburgh, and to Mr. Ivery, of Dorking, for fronds. 



Grandiceps, Moore. — Found near Nettlecombe, Somersetshire, 

 by Mr. C. Elworthy, and at Iluish-Campflowcr, near Wivelis- 

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