ATHYRIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 



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Caudiculatum, Moore. — Found at Chambercombc, in 

 Devonshire, by the Rev. J. M. Chanter. A singular form, 

 eighteen inches long; fronds narrow and erect. Somewhat bare 

 of pinnae below, and irregularly placed; above crowded; occa- 

 sionally wanting, or very various in length. Usually branched 

 near the base, or multifid and spread out at the apex. Mostly 

 caudate at the points, the many tail-like projections of the 

 numerous divisions of the crowded multifid apices of the pinnaj 

 is the remarkable feature. The frond also terminates in a 

 compact multifid head. 



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Fig. 4o8.— Upper half. 



CoNVEXUM-MULTiFiDUM, Loive. (Fig. 458.) — A slender 

 convex and corymbose form, raised from spores in the Vale 

 Nurseries, Todmorden, in 1864. Length of frond six inches, 

 width scarcely two inches, nearly equal throughout. Pinnae 

 opposite and sub-opposite above, convex, with here and there 

 a crested or dilated apex. The apex of the frond multifid. 



