ATHYRIUM FILIX-rOiMINA. 



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Varians, Moore. — Raised from spores in the Fernery of 

 Mr. J. H. Sclatcr, of Newick Park, near Uckfield. A remarkable 

 and interesting variety of the incisum type, partaking, in the 

 deeply-pinnatiiid pinnules and enlarged anterior basal lobes, of 

 the character of laxttm. Fronds twenty-four to thirty inches 

 long, and nine inches broad. Very variable. Some quite 

 tripinnate, with pinna; frequently two inches and a quarter 

 wide at the base. Oblong-ovate, and suddenly tapering to a 

 serrated acuminate apex. Pinnules distinct, some being one 

 inch and a half long, ovate-oblong, and acuminate. In the 

 attenuation of the points of the pinnules it is strikingly 

 distinct. Pinnules profoundly pinnatifid, the basal ones pinnate. 

 Sori everywhere copious. 



Fig. 441.— Frond 



Truncatum, Clapham. (Fig. 441.) — Found at Ilkley, in 

 1863, by Mr. A. Clapham, of Ramsdale Bank, Scarborough. 

 Two small plants were found growing in a crevice of a 

 rock. Length four to six inches, width an inch and a 



