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ATHYRIUM FILIX-FCEMINA. 



the apex, terminating in a very long fine point. Pinnules 

 divided to the rachides, the basal ones subpetiolate, distant, 

 long, narrow, auriculate, and miniitely dentate. Stipes, rachis, 

 and rachides thin and wire-like. I am indebted to Mrs. 

 Thorn j)son, of South Lawn, Exeter, for fronds. 



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Fig. 477.— Apex. 



Fig. 478.— Middle pinna. 



FoKMOSO-cRisTATUM, Pudlei/, 31S. (Figs. 477 and 478.) — A 

 very elegant narrow-fronded variety, raised from spores by Mr. 

 Elworthy, of Nettlecombe. Length of frond fourteen or fifteen 

 inches, width three inches and a half. Pinnae ascending, distant, 

 short, and terminating in a dense round tassel of three quarters 

 of an inch across, and as much in depth. Pinnules distant, 

 usually oblong, subpetiolate, with dilated subcristate apices, 

 occasionally a pinnule will be much larger and branched, and 

 more often erose or even wanting. The frond terminating in 

 a very heavy much-branching crest of three inches across. 

 My thanks are due to Mr. Elworthy for froiids. 



CoNciNNUM, Moore. — Found near Scarborough by Mr. 



