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ATHYBIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 



tufted, terminal, crispy, five- or six-branched tassel, each 

 branch many times dichotomously-divided. The tassels consist 

 of lacerate, narrow divisions, everywhere fringed with small 

 leafy lobes. The large tassel at the apex of the frond is as 

 much as five inches wide. The pinnae have at their base 

 inciso-serrate, unequal, oblong pinnules; the pinnules becoming 

 shorter towards the apex, and ultimately expanding into large, 

 lacerate, many-times-divided, terminal tassels, forming a uniform 

 border to the frond; the tassels on the pinnee are in the 

 largest one inch and a half long, being two inches in width. 



Fig. 383.— Frond reduced. 



MooREi, Lowe. (Fig. 383.) — A dwarf multifid variety, found 

 in the Channel Islands by Mr. James, of Vauvert. Length of 

 frond eight inches, width two inches and a half. Pinnae 

 exceedingly irregular in size, varying from less than half an 

 inch in length to one inch and a half, and one half absent. 

 The apices of the larger pinnae compactly multifid, the smaller 

 ones only dilated. The apex of the frond dividing into four 

 multifid branches, and forming a wide corymhiferous head. 



