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ASPLENIUM TRICHOMANES. 



Nuthall. Length of frond eleven inches, width one inch 

 and a quarter; about twenty-two pairs of pinnae. Pinnae lax 

 and unusually large, coarsely serrated, and occasionally dilated 

 or bifid at the extreme tip of the frond. The illustration was 

 forwarded by Mr. W. Edwards, of Nuthall. 



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Fig. 557.— Middle portion. Fig. 558.— Middle portion. 



Fig. 559. — Apex. 



Incisum-l ACINI ATUM, Moore. (Fig. 557.) — Found in County 

 Clare, Ireland, in 1863, by Mr. A. Stansfield, of Vale Nursery, 

 Todmorden. Length of frond three inches. A distinct laciniate 

 form of incisum. My thanks are due to Messrs. Stansfield, 

 for fronds. 



Lob ATUM, 3Ioore. (Fig. 558.) — Found in Devonshire by the 

 Eev. J. M. Chanter, and a dwarf form at Ottery St. Mary by 

 Mr. G. B. Wollaston, of Chiselhurst. A large variety, bearing 

 some resemblance to crenato-lohatum ; the peculiarity consisting 

 in the pinnae (especially in the centre of the frond) having at 

 their base two deeply-divided broad obovate lobes, the lowest 

 one sometimes separated almost to the midrib. A large form 

 of this Fern was found at Shaw Bridge, Devon, by Mr. Smith, 

 gardener to the Kev. Charles Padley, of Beaconfield, Plymouth. 

 The illustration is from this frond. 



SuB^QUALE, Moore. (Fig. 559.) — Found originally on the 

 banks of the Wye by Mr. J. D. Enys; and more recently at 

 Knaresborough, Yorkshire, by Mr. A. Clapham; Whitbarrow, 

 in Westmoreland, by Mr. F. Clowes; at Nettlecombe, Somer- 



