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ATHYKIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 



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Fig. 439. — Portion of pinna, 





Gratum, Loive. (Fig. 439.) — A distinct variety raised from 

 spores at Higlificld House. Length of frond eighteen inches, 



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width five inches and a half. Pinnae opposite, except three 

 inches near the apex, where alternate; widest in the centre of 

 the frond. A slender form, with very distant pinnae, being 

 from one to two inches apart on the basal half of the frond- 

 Pinnules three inches long, linear-lanceolate. Pinnules leafy, 

 but distant. 





Fig. 440. — rinna. 



Gratissimum, Lowe. (Fig. 440.) — A multifid form raised 

 from spores of multijidum by ]Mr. Edward Cooling, of the 

 Mile-ash Xursery, Derby. Length of frond from fifteen to 

 twenty inches. A slender graceful variety. Pinnae approximate, 

 two inches in length, narrow, their apices terminating in a 

 crested apex. The superior basal pinnule twice the size of 

 the others. The apices of all the pinnules bent over, as well 

 as all the teeth. The apex of the frond terminating in a 

 small corymbose head, 

 fronds. 



I am indebted to Mr. E. Cooling for 



