ATHYlllUM I'lI-lX-FiEMlNA. 



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l\. I'anington; and at Killarncy l)y ]\Ir. N. B. "Ward and Mr. 

 G. H. Allcock. A large-growing- handsome variety, Avith fronds 

 from three to five feet in length, and in the large fronds 

 twelve inches in breadth; drooping and feathery. Broadly 

 lanceolate. Pinna? ascending, and nine or ten inches in length, 

 broad oblong, tapering to a slender point. Pinnules an inch 

 and a half long, and five eighths of an inch wide at the 

 base, and frequently so profoundly divided that the fronds are 

 almost tripinnate, linear-lanceolate, and distinct. Lobes forming 

 open sinuses, and toothed at the margin and apex. Sori 

 abundant. Fronds have been received from the Rev. F. Mules, 

 of ]\Iarwood; Mr. Swynfen Jervis, of Darlaston Hall; Mr. 

 Kennedy, of Covent Garden; Mr. Joseph Sidebotham, of 

 Manchester; Mr. John Pearson, of Chilwell; Messrs. Stansfield, 

 of Todmorden; Mr. Cooling, of Derby; Mr. Willison, of 

 Whitby; Mr. Elworthy, of Nettlecombe; and the Rev. J. 

 Rooper, of Brighton, 





Fig. 355. — Pinnffi. 



Grandidens, Moore. (Fig. 355.)— Length of frond eighteen 

 inches, width scarcely four inches in the widest part. A narrow- 

 fronded variety, not unlike the variety of this name of Poly- 

 stichum angulare. Pimiffi' small at the base and descending, 

 from the centre of the frond not descending ; somewhat distant. 

 Pinnules normal, and coarsely-dentate near the base, but in 

 the upper half of the frond variously-shaped and depauperated. 

 I am indebted to Mr. Swynfen Jervis, of Darlaston Hall, for 

 the illustration. Messrs. Stansfield have sent fronds more 

 Cystojiteris-Xookmg. 



