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dividing again and again several times. The apices of the pinnoc 

 are drawn out into lengthy points, and now and then one is 

 furcate: the width across the apex of the frond is eight inches. 

 The pinnules are deeply divided and coarsely-dentate, and are 

 linear-oblong. llamuloso-JMonJnnanii on the contrary is slender, 

 thin, and much narrower, being fifteen inches long, and six 

 inches broad. Pinnre broad and short pointed, the apex of the 

 frond terminating one inch and a half below the tip in a 

 brief, very leafy, much-branched crown, of two inches and a 

 half in diameter. Pinnules crowded, broad and entire, oblong- 

 ovate, rounded at their apices, land merely fringed with minute 

 teeth on their margin. Sori situated close to the costa. My 

 thanks are due to Mr. jNIonkman for fronds. An illustration 

 is imnecessary. 



Fig. 400.— Middle pinn.a. 



Ramo-cristatum, Shn. (Fig. 400.) — An exceedingly hand- 

 some multifid variety. Frond eighteen inches long and ten 

 inches wide, nearly equal in width, except near the base, 

 and but little diminished at the apex, where it branches. 

 The apices of all the pinnje are extensively multifid, the 

 crests being from an inch and a half to two inches across, and 

 the pinnae of the branching apex also multifid or furcate. 

 Pinna) opposite, nearly equal in width from the base to the 

 wide-spreading tassel. Pinnules long, narrow, rounded or 

 dilated at their apices, the dentation recurved. I am indebted 

 to the Rev. Charles Padley, of Beaconfield, near Plymouth, for 

 fronds. 



