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ingly narrow, and broken up to the rachis, scarcely anything 

 but the naked stem remaining, with a much-divided, large, 

 multifid apex of narrow branches, soriferous along the margin. 

 My thanks are due to Mr. Elworthy for a plant. 



FuRCANS, Moore. — Found in Somerset by Mr. Elworthy. 

 Dwarf. Base cordate, apex once or more forked, sometimes 

 divided into a tuft of five or six lobes. Margin unequally 

 crenate lobate. Polyschides section. 



CuRTUM, 3Ioore. — Fronds thick, variable, apex dentate, some- 

 times contracted, and base truncate; margin lobate, apex abrupt, 

 ramose, or abbreviated. Here and there subcontracted and 

 supralineate. Found in Somerset by Mr. Elworthy. Polyschides 

 section. 



Inops, Moore. — Found in Guernsey by Mr. .James, of Vauvert. 

 Length six or eight inches. Narrowish, base cordate, irregular, 

 margin crenate-dentate, a^^ex forked, or also forked below. 

 Polyschides section. 



SuBVARiEGATUM, Wollaston. — Found at Glanville's Wootton, 

 Dorset, by Mr. G. B. Wollaston. Fronds six to twelve inches 

 long, exceedingly varied in form and multifid, undulate, crenate, 

 and faintly streaked with a dull straw-colour. Polyschides 

 section. 



RiMOSUM, Moore. — Found in Guernsey by Mr. James, and 

 raised from spores by Mr. Wollaston. Fronds eighteen inches 

 long, and nearly two inches broad. Base cordate, margin sub- 

 undulate, sublobate, and crenate; near the divided apex deeply 

 incised. Upper surface sulcate, with here and there a thickened 

 j)rominent jjoint. Polyschides section. 



Imperfectum, Wollaston. — Found in 1855 by Mr. G. B. 

 Wollaston. Lobed as in polyschides, but broader. Length ten 

 inches, breadth one inch and three quarters. Base truncate, 

 apex abrupt. Margin irregularly wavy, and here and there 

 lobed. The margin has an unfinished ajjpearance. Polyschides 

 section. 



