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ATHYRIUM FILTX-FCEMINA. 



Plymouth. Fronds slender and bending, fifteen inches in 

 length, and four inches in width, slightly less at the base. 

 Stipes and rachis thin and slender. Pinnre opposite, except 

 near the apex, where alternate, linear-lanceolate, and distant. 

 Pinnules very large, leafy, and divided to the rachides; 

 decurrent, simple, with broad shallow teeth; in the upper half 

 of the frond long narrow laciniate teeth. My thanks are due 

 to Mrs. Thompson, of South Lawn, Exeter, for fronds. 



mm 



Fig. 481.— Apex. 



Fig. 485.— Middle pinna. 



CoRYMBiFERO-STRiCTUM, Loioe. (Figs. 484 and 485.) — Raised 

 from spores in 1864, by Messrs. Stansfield, Vale Nurseries, 

 Todmorden. A narrow-fronded dwarf form of corymhiferum. 

 Length of frond ten inches, width two inches and a half. 

 Pinnae broad, brief, and dilated at their apices into a compact, 

 rounded, and very leafy head. Pinnules rounded and conspic- 



