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mark. I have therefore thought none other would be more 

 appropriate than Claphami, after the Mell-known collector and 

 cultivator of so many fine English varieties. In this variety 

 the pinnai sometimes measure three quarters of an inch in 

 length, and three quarters of an inch across the base, the 

 basal lobes right and left being cut down nearly to the costa, 

 and themselves lobate, having the segments serrate and the 

 upper lobes cut in proportion. The fronds barren. Length 

 of frond six or seven inches, having upwards of thirty pairs of 

 plnnro. An exceedingly rare Fern difficult to cultivate. I am 

 indebted to Mr. A. Clapham, of Ramsdale Bank, Scarborough, 

 for an excellent plant with about thirty fine fronds. 



Fig. 573. — Middle portion. 



Fig. 574— Middle portion. 



Ramo-lobatum, Moore. (Fig. 573.) — A large-growing form 

 Avith fronds seven or eight inches in length, recently found near 

 Xettlecombe, by Mr. C. Elworthy. It is a branched form, with 

 the lobes of the pinnse divided to the rachides, and the margin 

 coarsely crenated. The illustration is from Mr. Elworthy's frond. 



Grandidens, Loioe. (Fig. 574.) — Found in South Devon, 

 by Mr. W. Edwards, of Nuthall, Nottinghamshire. A dwarf 

 form of scarcely three inches in length. Pinnee various in size 

 and shape, the basal ones auriculate and the upper ones much 

 laciniated, occasional pinnre are all but absent; copiously sori- 

 ferous. I am indebted to Mr. Edwards, for fronds. 



Willi soNii, Willison. — Found near Whitby by Mr. WilHson. 

 So nearly allied to the form conjluens of Moore, as to be 

 doubtfully distinct. I must confess that the only difference 



